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YoYoGames.com to Get Long Overdue Overhaul?

Paul Cosgrove and Chris Harrison, two former Realtime World employees, are the latest to join YoYo Games growing team in Dundee. The very smiley web developer Paul will apparently “be working with Lee [Turner] on various web related projects within YoYo”. Hopefully this means that the neglected main YoYoGames.com website will soon be receiving some […] More

by Mark Smith May 20, 2011, 2:27 pm
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GameMaker “Studio” to allow iOS, Android, PSP and HTML5 exporting

YoYo Games’ Stuart Poole has announced that a future version of GameMaker will allow creations to be exported to PC, Mac, iOS, Android, PSP Mini and HTML5 formats. The upcoming version, currently dubbed “GameMaker Studio”, will contain options enabling a single game to simultaneously be exported to files which are runnable across a range of […] More

by Mark Smith April 22, 2011, 1:58 pm
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Game Maker 8.1 Lite Cannot Create Executables (Updated: Change of Plan?)

The Lite version of the Game Maker 8.1 beta cannot export executable Game Maker files. This is one update that is missing from the official list of changes. Whilst testing the software I had entirely overlooked the removal of this feature until this morning when registered upgrade keys were cancelled for a test. This had […] More

by Mark Smith March 30, 2011, 1:10 pm
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Game Maker 8.1 Pricing

The price of upgrading to Game Maker Pro is to increase by 60% on June 1st. The current Game Maker Pro 8 will be renamed to Game Maker Standard as of version 8.1 and from June will sell for $39.99. Anyone who has a purchase reference number for Game Maker 8 (including those who received […] More

by Mark Smith March 21, 2011, 11:16 pm
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Game Maker 8.1 Official Feature List

YoYo Games has announced that Game Maker 8.1 is now “almost ready” for release. Alongside previously known improvements such as an overhauled room editor, enhanced script editor, built in updater and executable file encryption, details have been posted of a number of other changes that will be made to the software. The Softwrap DRM system […] More

by Mark Smith March 21, 2011, 3:49 pm
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Mark Overmars nearly sold Game Maker to Atari

Prior to taking a shareholding in YoYo Games Mark Overmars was about to sell Game Maker to Atari. The first we knew of any offer for Game Maker, besides that Mark accepted from YoYo Games, was when I spoke with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan last week and asked him how the company started. Sandy […] More

by Mark Smith March 10, 2011, 7:50 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: Game Maker 8.1 and beyond

In this section: Game Maker 8.1, C++ Runner, Game Maker Mac, Game Maker Linux?, Game Maker 9?, Bug reports, Future of YoYo Games The Software Russell is working on including in Game Maker 8.1 something that supports distributing games. I wouldn’t call it DRM in the strictest sense but you can’t just put the games […] More

by Mark Smith March 5, 2011, 10:18 am
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Russell Kay at Game Developers Conference

Look who’s been using the “YouTube for games” line this week. Only Russell Kay at GDC! More

by Mark Smith March 4, 2011, 4:42 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: Game Maker HTML5 Addon

In this section: Game Maker to HTML5 export, Game Maker to ActionScript discussion Sandy Duncan: For 4 years we’ve had an on-off discussion about whether or not we could make a Game Maker for ActionScript, we decided that you could but you would have to take a big leap from bitmap to vector graphics and […] More

by Mark Smith March 3, 2011, 5:00 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: App Publishing Process

In this section: Publishing Apps, YoYo Game Store: Approval, Process, Publishing Agreement, app performance, support for serious developers, giving access to runners to third parties. Sandy Duncan: When publishing we try to choose games which we know aren’t pushing the limits of Game Maker to the extreme because we don’t know how far we can […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 10:38 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: How YoYo Games Really Started & PSP

In this section: Founding YoYo Games Ltd, Mark Overmars and Game Maker, Writing runners for different hardware and PSP. Sandy Duncan: I’ll go back to how YoYo Games really started, there were a bunch of us paid by a Venture Capital firm to come up with some ideas for them. There was me, James North-Hearn […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 2:11 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview – Coming Soon

Earlier today I spoke with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and asked him about App publishing, Game Maker 8.1, Game Maker for Mac, the HTML5 runner and company itself. I was hoping to post a recording of our conversation here but Sandy asked that I instead publish edited transcripts. I will do so covering various topics in […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 12:52 pm

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