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    We Love Game Design

    Four students in their third year of a Digital Games degree at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden have undertaken an ambitious task to create a game every two days in a four week period. About ten mini-games have already been created including Two Minutes to Midnight, where your typing skills are put to the test […] More

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    GM-Resources looking for new owner

    James Rhodes from Roket Games is looking to sell GM-Resources.com. The website features a resource search that utilises (or steals depending on your viewpoint) content posted on the official Game Maker Community. There is also a multi-site game search and the world map of Game Maker Community users. “Due to financial issues, I may have […] More

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    Day care centre closure

    The free-for-all which is the YoYo Games forums, not to be confused with the often useful official Game Maker Community (GMC), has been temporarily taken offline. A message in the form of an irritating scrolling marquee in late-nineties fashion on the YoYo Games homepage provides the following explanation: “Anyone looking for the YoYo Games Forums…..we’ve […] More

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    A Quick Look at KwikLook

    After ceasing publication of GMWeekly and its return as KwikLook Darren Poole turned his attention to a blog focusing on spotlighting Game Maker creations.  The website which now contains more than 50 posts has been online for nearly three months and has received “over 1500 (non-unique) hits”. The KwikLook blog is regularly updated and is a […] More

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    Mike Deroche’s DLLs

    We haven’t mentioned any sites offering Game Maker resources for a long time as the vast majority of these projects are mediocre at best and quickly turn into a collection of broken links to a puny amount of files. Once in a while I stumble across a real gem though.  Mike Deroche‘s personal site is one […] More

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    Kwiklook Blog launches

    Following the discontinuation of the magazine, Darren Poole has launched a new blog, as promised: I may very well turn KwikLook into a blog, so if you care, watch out for that. Currently featuring 2 posts and an irritating all-bold font selection, the blog is off to a nice start. Me? At this point, I’m […] More

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    in GMC, Websites

    Game a Week experiment and new GMC Moderators

    Using some of the “crazy Cactus design philosophy” Liveo plans to create a game a week for a year.  Some, but not all, of the games will be made in Game Maker which Liveo will soon be teaching.  You can follow his attempt at his Imperceptive Muddle blog. Meanwhile there have been some changes to […] More

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    Revenue sharing for Game Maker games

    Indie gaming website GameJolt (website | GMB review) has launched a beta version of their ad revenue sharing scheme.  The website, which also hosts games written in languages other than Game Maker, will pay developers a percentage of the advertising income derived from any pages relating to a particular developer. For developers that sign up in the […] More

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    Game Jolt

    Game Jolt is a relatively new Freeware games host with a growing user base and a sense of graphical polish. Game Jolt prides itself on a central niche aspect: it aggregates the products from numerous game creation languages and programs into the one hosting platform. Content wise the site already has a number of well […] More

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    Your local Game Maker Community

    If you are not from a country where the predominantly spoken language is English you may prefer to visit an unofficial localised Game Maker forum.  About a year ago I wrote a post listing the membership numbers of various Game Maker websites and I included a section on none-English forums. As that is now a […] More

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    GameCog – Create, Design, Develop, Discuss

    Move over 64Digits, there is a new site in town! GameCOG is a new community website that has been created to provide game developers, designers and enthusiasts, an active environment to create and design, develop and discuss their game ideas and projects. Although it has just had its first public release, it is going strong […] More

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    GMWeekly returns as “Kwiklook Magazine”

    Darren Poole’s abruptly halted GMWeekly magazine is dead, but the man is back with another magazine project, KwikLook. The issue #1 of the new magazine features 8 pages of content. This will be a monthly “publication”. GMWeekly’s Game Maker… Dudes! comic returns. But seriously – 8 pages for a monthly magazine? Not off to a […] More

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