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Just a beginning note – I’ve known about Zack Banack (known on most sites as Zack064 or just Zack) for a while now and have recently felt him to be fairly underrated. He shares his general style with indie creators like Jonatan Söderström and Andrew Brophy, yet his creations aren’t even comparably covered. Little represents […] More

I was originally going to review the winner of the Game Jolt Minimal competition for this overly-late review (sorry, been a tad busy lately), but then a Construct-built game went and won it. So I decided on reviewing the second place game, Saut. Except… had to skip it as well – it’s a one-button game, […] More

Sometimes, it’s the simplest of games that are the most addictive. David Scatliffe’s “Mouse No. Probably A Rat” was an example of this (see my last review). So is this arcade offering – Jack Brockley’s “Circum Skull”, which I noticed in the mid-week community links posted just before this review (stuck for games to review […] More

“Mouse No. Probably A Rat” is the latest game by David Scatliffe, a Game Maker user beginning to enter the spotlight for his addictive, retro-styled arcade games. Created in under three hours for a competition on popular site The Poppenkast, it is a game inspired by “Squid Yes! Not So Octopus!” – and it shows. […] More

Formerly known as “Prodigy Game Magazine“, Nathan Hurde has released a new issue of his magazine (direct pdf link). Last released in June, a new issue (issue 5) was finally released here at the end of October. The new title of the magazine is now “Tailware Times”. The magazine opened with a note from Nathan […] More

If there was ever an example of how successful Game Maker games can be, JTR’s “Death Worm” would probably be it. It took the indie gaming scene by storm when it was released nearly three years ago, and has been featured in pretty much every PC gaming magazine in existence (I’m a regular reader of […] More

Firstly, I’d like to introduce myself, I’m Andrew McCluskey, aka “NAL”, the newest addition to the Game Maker Blog team. My contributions are solely going to focus on reviewing Game Maker games from the past and present. I’ll write these every one to two weeks. The first game I shall be reviewing is the most […] More

The seventeenth issue of the only quality Game Maker magazine currently in production has been released.   The September edition sees GMTech equal GMWeekly‘s record for the largest number of releases by a single magazine. Download now | Direct pdf link (5.6MB) The main feature is an exclusive insight into the development of ArcMagi the […] More

Earlier today Mozilla released version 3.5 of Firefox. As I write YoYo Games instant play is not compatible with this version due to the ‘maxVersion‘ value YYG have placed within the plugin. More

A look at the increasing use of Game Maker in education around the world including an insight from Simon Donkers on a course he recently ran at the IMC Weekendschool in The Netherlands. This article was first published in Game Maker Tech issue 16 released on 29th May 2009.   Over the past few years […] More