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    Review: Awesome Ball – Breakout with a twist

    Awesome Ball [gmc | yyg] takes the basic breakout concept and adds in the power of changeable gravity fields which act upon the ball.  The gravitational fields which act upon the ball are controlled by the player and are changeable at any time – through careful adjustment of these the ball can be swung towards […] More

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    TIA Limited Gfx Competition Entries

    The $100 TIA limited graphics competition is accepting entries until 10th November, from when 10 days of voting commences. Here is a look at the three games that have been submitted so far. Black and Blue – GMC topic and download link A surprisingly addictive arcade game where all you can do is shoot! You […] More

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    Review: Doodle Balls – artistic fun?

    Doodle balls, a game created by Stubbjax02 yesterday, is in the beta stages–though it is rather difficult to tell! The graphics are superb, and the sounds are indeed brilliantly done, plus the gameplay is rather addicting – even though the only mode available is easy. More

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    Game Maker Magazine Issue 4

    After a much criticised third issue released in April InstantArts have returned with their fourth Game Maker Magazine. Download GMM Issue 4 (pdf, 3.4MB) Unlike issue 3 in which the considerably improved quality of content was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the new design, issue 4 has a unique layout so hopefully this time around […] More

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    GameMaker highscores with Vex K

    Vishnu Aravind has released an updated version of his online GameMaker highscores service. I first reviewed the original service back in October of last year when writing for Issue 9 of the MarkUp game development magazine. Put simply the site contains everything you need to create a global online highscore table for any game created […] More

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    3rd GameMaker Podcast

    The third episode of GMking’s Game Maker audcast has been released, nearly a year after the second. The show is, as before, hosted by MarkUp editors Robin Monks and Eyas Sharaiha. Topics discussed include the re-writing of the GameMaker runner in C++ (including “glog” abuse!), the insecurities of GameMaker and the release of the obfuscator. […] More

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    GMTV 3 detailed review

    …by everybody’s favorite [sic] writer. I have to say, to begin this with, the third episode greatly increased the quality of GMTV compared to the past two episodes. I won’t be jumping into the technical aspects until the end — I’ll focus on the content. The main content in this episode is reviewing the 10 […] More

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    GM Arcade

    It appears this is the first post on GameMaker Blog or gmnews about this site which actually astonishes me. GMArcade is a new website that enables you to play a selection of Game Maker creations from your browser, in a similar fashion to YoYo Games’ “Instant Play” feature through the use of a Java Applet. […] More

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    Game Maker Magazine

    Another new Game Maker Magazine has been launched. Yep that’s its name “Game Maker Magazine”. (gmc link) Whilst GameMakerTech have to hold a caption competition to come up with a snappy slogan Game Maker Magazine has one from the start: “The Information you need to know, today“. Almost as good as the magazine name I’m […] More

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    Sell Your GM Games

    Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Bad website. Really, the implementation is shockingly bad – and the fact that the entire process is 0% automated only adds to the mockery. The site “of course will get 30% of your sales for hosting and selling your games“. Of course. “If the game is incomplete or is […] More

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    I’m Scared!

    Earlier this week an invitation appeared in my PM inbox at the GMC asking if I could review “I’m scared!” by JW Productions. I haven’t reviewed many games recently, but figured I would give it a go. The screenshots looked good. The startup screen, menu and game room looked good. And amazingly for a Game […] More

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    Share your Desktop Wallpaper with WallShare

    WallShare by zedman1000 is a small (2.84 MB download) program that enables you to swap and share your desktop wallpapers with other users from around the world. Downloading and Installing To get started first download the software from the WallShare website, http://wallshare.uni.cc/. Once you have downloaded the file you will need to extract the contents […] More

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