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Prison Ball is a loosely jail themed breakout game with 3D style bricks. Colourful blocks are arranged in a variety of shapes and patterns which can be destroyed by directing a ball towards them from a bat at the bottom of the screen. The iPhone and Android versions of the game are very similar to that available freely […] More

Karoshi, erm, Mr. Karoshi returns in this fun, addicting platform puzzler for the iOS. Its creator, Jesse Venbrux, is not new to developing for this platform. He recently released They Need to Be Fed a few months ago through YYG. More

Skydiver HD is the second title to be ported by YoYo Games to the Android platform, a follow up to the free Simply Solitaire HD released last month. The game sells for £1.19 (Sandy has provided an explanation for the higher Android price compared to iOS) and was my first purchase from the Android Marketplace. […] More

Game Maker creator Mark Overmars has launched YoYo Games Studios at the Dutch Game Garden in Utrecht, Netherlands. YoYo Games Studios is part of the main YoYo Games Ltd company which focuses on supporting game developers who want to create Game Maker games. Services are provided for free so long as you agree to publish […] More

Exciting developments are underway at Scirra where the Construct game creation software is undergoing a rewrite. Out will go Construct 0.99.96, which exports games to the .exe format, and in will come Construct 2 which will have HTML5 as its main export format. Exporting to HTML5 means that games made using Construct 2 will be […] More

Now available at the considerably smaller file size of just 4.11MB Simply Solitaire HD is the first game created in Game Maker to be published to the Android operating system. The game of Klondike Solitaire is the same as that available on both iPod and iPad and, as on iOS, is a free download. The controls […] More

2% – proportion of Game Maker games YoYo consider “financially viable” for porting 5 – episodes of GMTalk produced 6 – approved mini games in the Game Maker Community Game 2 10 – Apps published by YoYo Games on iPhone or iPad 50% – proportion of IndieGames.com’s top Indie Games of 2010 made using Game Maker […] More

Volatile is a real time strategy game developed by Matthew Bowden in a 48 hour period for the recent Ludum Dare 19.  It’s effectively a four way tower defence and attack game which builds on the concept explored in Matthew’s earlier Globules but pits you against 3 opponents all of whom start in corners of a hexagonal gridded […] More

At first glance, Teka Teki appears to be another Tetris-like game. And if you were to just play through the first level, it may seem like it. However, the game introduces a handful of new ideas and game mechanics to the puzzle genre which makes it stand out from the crowd. Teka Teki is based […] More

Kinetics is another addition to the escalating pile of so-called physics puzzlers where you must position trampolines and the like to guide a particularly bouncy blue ball from its starting position, through optionally collectible-for-points coins, to a portal. For what reason, I’m not quite sure; it’s probably just for a bit of fun. More

Stop.  Before you continue reading, start downloading from the contest site.  At 110MB, it takes a while to download, but it’s well worth it. There are quite a few Game Maker games which use the built-in 3D functions, but not many, in fact almost none, that manage to pull it off with the elegance and style that […] More

The fourth issue of the high-gloss This is Indie magazine has been released. It’s not exactly up-to-date given that the first article mentions that former GMC administrator KC LC stood down from her position. In August. The second news piece is on Dustforce‘s $100,000 success in the IndiePub Games contest. There is very little focus […] More