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Game Maker Community member beeproductions has released a “first issue demo” of a magazine titled Game Maker Time (view PDF). Explaining the reason for deciding to launch another Game Maker magazine beeproductions writes: “After reading other issues released by other GMC members I started to realize that we actually need a good issue. Not 20 […] More

Two months after the launch of This Is Indie Evan McClane has released the second issue of his Indie Gaming Magazine. Download 5.8MB PDF (left click only) The PDF opens in an annoyingly secured format and tries to take over my screen but by the time I have scrolled through a couple of pages the […] More

The second issue of Andrew McCluskey’s RekameMag has been released.  Contributions from other Game Maker users (and Rebecca Clare Smith) are alongside those written by Andrew. Thankfully after a pain-inducing front cover in the launch issue the abstract design included in this issue has been toned down. Dan Fornace discusses approaches to multiplayer gaming, Andrew looks at the […] More

Andrew McCluskey starts his Rekame Mag (Game Maker spelt-backwards) with a good summary of publications past and present and outlines his plans for a “fun” magazine rather than one that will stick to a stringent release schedule. Once you make it past the red on blue cover the content consists of four game reviews, an […] More

Two Game Maker magazines have today released copies. This morning GMAG published their third issue (pdf, left click only).  None of the content was of particular interest to me as I don’t think there is anything Game Maker related in it that I had not already seen besides a single game review. Much of the […] More

Evan McClane has relaunched his Independent Developer Magazine as “This is Indie”. Writing in the June 2010 issue he says “Independent Developer was a far cry from an amazing magazine, and This Is Indie hopes to become what Independent Developer never was.” In PDF format (left click only) the download is more than 40MB, so […] More

Fed up of seeing all these easy, small, badly-made and partly-irrelevant word puzzles in magazines and on websites? Here’s a little something I spent a couple hours on to hopefully alleviate that feeling. It’s a lovely big crossword, which is made up entirely of Game Maker-made games – around 60-65 of them. It’s difficult, but doable. […] More

GMIndie have released the first issue of their new magazine, Game Maker’s Digest.  It won’t replace GMIndie Magazine. The magazine, which is 40 pages long, features a wide variety of content starting with Game Maker news which refreshingly hasn’t just been copied and pasted from elsewhere.  Next up is an interview with Ablach Blackrat which […] More

Less that two weeks after its launch the second issue of GMag has been released. The magazine features a review of NAL’s Remaddening which is the follow up to his popular mMm arcade game, an example script showing how you can create circular health and mana  bars in a role playing game and a collection […] More

A perfection of ideas – this is how Jesse Venbrux describes his first-prize-winning entry into the fifth YoYo Games competition “Design a Handheld Game”. And it’s a fitting description. They Need To Be Fed features elements found in his previous works, most notably the 360° gravity well-known from Frozzd (his winning entry into the first YoYo Games […] More

What is apparently the “last long issue” of GMIndie (pdf) starts with some excuses for an apparently delayed release and some rather dismissive comments about critics of the magazine. So I probably shouldn’t point out that some bewilderment may emerge from the Mother’s Day message given that it is celebrated on different dates around the […] More

Grabeorama has released the first short issue of GMAG which he will “strive to make a bi-weekly magazine”. Issue 1 .zip download The first article is a preview of Grabeorama’s upcoming game Shoot a Shape 2 for which there is a playable demo.  Next up is a brief piece about Game Maker for PSP with […] More