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[Indie Interview] uZombie made in GameMaker!

Today I sit down with Indie Developer: Jonathon Colibaba to talk about his new android game: uZombie, a unique mobile RPG where you are not just a zombie but a Zombie Leader with intelligence. There is a myriad of features and things to do: Turn civilians, police and military into your own undead army, level […] More

by Hikati Games November 28, 2017, 6:48 pm
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[Made in GameMaker] LetThemCome launches on Steam and Xbox with guns blazing

Endless Waves of Aliens? Big Guns? A BOOMBOX? Let Them Come has everything you need to recreate a great Rambo in space story, after all they drew first blood right? While I am pretty pumped to start mindlessly mowing down hordes of ugly looking aliens what intrigues me most is how great this game looks […] More

by Hikati Games October 3, 2017, 4:11 pm
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[GameMaker Tutorial] Simple Embedded database using Grid Data Structure

GameMakerBlog Tutorials Create A Simple Database with DS_GRID Games require a lot of information, everything from player hp, mana, level, skills, attack power, sprites, and even quest lists. Storing that data is a common problem that has many different solutions, though when you want to make something simple, portable and only use the base language […] More

by Hikati Games October 2, 2017, 4:24 pm
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[GameMaker Tutorial] How to setup a simple slot machine reward system

GameMakerBlog Tutorials Simple Slot Machine Reward System If you play Adventure Capitalist then you would have probably seen the slot machine reward system that gives you a spin after you unlock certain milestones. Black Desert Online also has a type of slot machine reward system that can give you some pretty incredible rewards: a […] More

by Hikati Games September 18, 2017, 4:01 pm
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[GameMaker Tutorial] Drawing custom health bars with sprite parts

GameMakerBlog Tutorials Drawing Health Bars Health bars (or HP Bars) are almost mandatory in any game, and even if it is not a traditional health bar these techniques will hold true for any bar that has positive or negative progress including Time based bars like those seen in Adventure Capitalist, Loading bars to let players know […] More

by Hikati Games September 5, 2017, 6:53 am
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GameMaker Studio 2 adding C# region type syntax code folding soon

GameMaker Studio 2 Code Folding Code folding is a pretty simple concept: Condense multiple lines of code into one line that can be expanded again when needed; it keeps large code files neat and clean while allowing a developer to still read over the general logic flow. How you implement code folding, on the other […] More

by Hikati Games August 21, 2017, 5:00 am
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[Tutorial] HTML5 games and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

GameMakerBlog Tutorials HTML5 Games and Cross-Site Scripting If you have ever looked up any of the http_* methods in the Gamemaker: Studio documentation you have surely seen the following warning about cross domain issues: “NOTE: You should be aware that due to XSS protection in browsers, requests to and attempts to load resources from across […] More

by Hikati Games August 15, 2017, 5:47 am
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Albion Online: Calls out DDOS Criminals during Server Restart

Criminals demand money from Albion Online It was an interesting weekend for Albion Online; full of twists and turns, server restarts and ransom demands. To get a better feel for just how serious things got, the CEO and Founder himself took to the forum to explain what was happening: Bercilak → DDOS & Blackmailing saying that a […] More

by Hikati Games August 7, 2017, 3:44 am
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GMB is up for Sale!

I’m really short on time these days so I’ll keep this brief. I had high hopes when I took over the reins back in November last year. I started to implement a lot of new things and the content was coming nice and regularly. Readership is up, income is growing steadily and the subscriber count […] More

by Mark Smith March 30, 2017, 5:48 pm
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Ownership Change – What Now For GMB?

Those of you that still frequent this blog for its amazing resources will know that Matthew posted this final post way back in March 2015, over 18 months ago now. It was with this post that he declared the end of his contribution to this blog and the time-consuming maintenance that comes with running a […] More

by Mark Smith November 4, 2016, 8:11 am
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GameMaker Blog Ceasing Publication

UPDATE: GameMaker Blog is alive and well but under new ownership, read more here. I’m leaving this post up as it was Matthew’s last post and explains why the blog was inactive for 18 months. ——————————————————————————————————————————– Unfortunately, GameMaker Blog will be ceasing publication for the foreseeable future. I’m no longer able to maintain the website […] More

by Mark Smith March 8, 2015, 9:17 pm
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Tech Blog – Properly Scaling Games

YoYo Games, the developers of GameMaker Studio, have posted a new tech blog article discussing how to properly scale games to fit various devices and resolutions. The two-part series, aimed at intermediate and experienced users, focuses on manipulating the GUI layer and views using the GameMaker language. More

by Mark Smith September 22, 2014, 2:17 pm

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