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Affenitaet was developed by some German guys but don’t worry; you can switch the language to English once you start the game to experience the full pleasure of this very good game . The platformer gives you control of what I assume is a monkey (it’s brown and waves it’s arms a lot) and tests […] More

Half an hour or so before the release of Overbyte Issue 3 a new Game Maker magazine chose an unfortunate time to launch their first issue (~1MB pdf link). Nikc-Nack’s Magazine is a Nikc-Nack Games Project, made to bring you the latest Game Maker news, scoops and reviews! The magazine features three game reviews, a […] More

Overbyte, the independent games magazine your mother would be ashamed of, has released its third, less silly, issue. In the main articles Jack Brockley takes a look at eight of the entries in YoYo Games’ fifth competition while Andrew McCluskey delivers some design tips you can use to give your game a more professional appearance. […] More

The seventh issue of this magazine was supposed to be the last before the release of a new publication, Game Developers Digest, which planned to focus on computer gaming in general and not just Game Maker. However an eighth issue (2.8MB pdf) has now been published which, at 18 pages, is double the length of […] More

RedChu‘s Overbyte Magazine which offers “byte sized content for your byte sized brain” is back with a second issue. After making a guest appearance at the end of the first issue, which resulted in much confusion amongst those on the YYG forums, NAL is back with a couple of articles including “Why using Game Maker […] More

Across several Game Maker forums we have seen the creation of  “Community Game” projects. The most widely-participated in of these by far has been the “GMCG”, started by grimmjow. Other smaller-scale projects include NOD‘s still unnamed Game Project, NODs first game project which died and 64 Digits’ (now dead) game. Although the idea is plausible […] More

Last weekend, indie game website Game Jolt hosted its first Jam. This differentiated from its competitions by dropping the competitive aspect and focusing on getting developers to share their work regularly and, in general, have fun doing it. Most participants set up Livestream accounts and broadcast live video footage of them working on their entries. […] More

Received an e-mail today advising me that issue 9 (March-April) of the commercial Indie Game Mag had been released and was available to download. One change since the last edition – they have changed their re-use message from a Creative Commons license that enabled anyone to freely share the magazine to a copyright statement.  As FredFredrickson commented […] More

The final issue of GMIndie magazine has been released.  Download PDF (1.5MB) To quote from the welcome message at the start of the issue “We are constantly working on multiple projects at once. It’s fun for the first few minutes. Then it gets tiring” – reminds me of something I may have mentioned last month. […] More

YoYo Games moderator RedChu has published the first issue of Overbyte which “will try to be a monthly magazine”. Unlike many other Game Maker magazines Overbyte does not take itself too seriously – a good idea of what to expect comes for the very first page, headed “OHAI”, which states: “This being our first issue, […] More

Note: This review was originally written for GMTech Issue 17 back in September ’09. However, the GMTech website is down and no news on it has been heard of for several months so I’m sharing it here. Do you ever play a game which is really, REALLY addictive? As in, you stop playing after five […] More