Mastering GameMaker Studio: Reviews, Tutorials, and Indie Game Insights
In not-so-breaking news, the unpopular Reviewer’s Choice forum over at the official GameMaker Community board remains a neglected, inbred part of the community, where game reviews are written by and for the same people. Reviewer’s Choice allows game developers (namely hobbyists) to submit their GameMaker creations for review. A team of writers, made up of […] More
Kairuga by Kairos is a top-down action shooter modeled after the cult hit Ikaruga of console fame. As such, it’s billed as an homage, and accomplishes this quite admirably! Now, I definitely want to clarify the difference between homage and rip-off. An homage is built around the concept of something, either as a study, or […] More
Adrenaline is an ambitious top-down team shooter that attempts to take popular mechanics from games like Quake, Unreal, and Counterstrike and apply them to a 2D distillation of a bullet hell shoot ’em up. The basic setup and premise are familiar enough: two teams, red and blue, are thrown into an arena for any number of […] More
Visit is a platformer game by Rotten Tater, aka Ted Lauterbach. Visit is an older game that has since been followed up by Lauterbach’s sequel, Visit 2, which went on to win second place in the YoYo Games “co-operation” themed competition in 2008. Both games were created using GameMaker. Visit starts out with you taking the […] More
Battleships Forever is an action-packed strategy game with a lot of depth, but also some glaring design flaws. This game really broke my heart in a lot of ways. There’s incredible, unquestionable potential here. The action is compelling, the real-time strategy (RTS) is intense, and there’s just enough to play around with in this game […] More
Tower of Heaven is a short, but absolutely outstanding game by Askiisoft. The game takes place inside the titular tower, comprised of several floors of traps, falls and malicious gimmicks that put this game squarely in the “Super Meat Boy” and, in some instances, “I Want to Be the Guy” categories. You will die. A lot. […] More
There was a time when playing a GameMaker game meant downloading an executable file and running it on Windows. That was it. Now users are playing games in their browsers, on their mobile phones, on Mac OS X, and even sharing content with each other via Steam. GameMaker really has become a buffet of platforms. […] More
Since the release of GameMaker Studio, a large portion of hobbyists who once used the tool to create freeware Windows games are now taking advantage of the ability to export to mobile devices. This means a new wave of developers, with little experience in distributing their games or conducting business, are now looking for pointers […] More
A website offering step-by-step Game Maker video courses has launched. GameSpark has been developed by a company which runs game design and robotics camps so the people behind the site have experience teaching game design. The site claims to offer “Everything you need to make a game” and along with the teaching side also has […] More
GMVision’s 2nd Minisode has been released. This episode looks at various file hosts that may or may not be aimed specifically at Game Maker. With the abrupt shutdown of the popular “Will Host For Food”, this episode may be a great resource for people looking for a replacement host. The hosts featured in this Minisode […] More
There are several different ways you could choose to get started with Game Maker. You could download tutorials, fiddle around with examples, buy a book or play around in the IDE. When I started using Game Maker there were no English-language books devoted to introducing the software so I was more limited in my options. […] More
…with their newest issue. Featuring a new layout and some decent writing. But wait, hold your horses – do you think that our good friend Nate is responsible for this? The explanation to this seemingly miraculous event is simple: he had outside help from somebody insane enough to help him. So, here’s some bits from […] More
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