YoYo Games

Over the weekend more information has emerged about the recent HTML5 proof of concept video showcased by YoYo Games. Although at the time of the official blog post announcing the video YoYo Games had not yet decided how they would commercialise the Game Maker to HTML5 converter, yesterday evening Sandy commented stating “we have already […] More

A recent newsletter for participants in the Dutch Creative Game Challenge, organised by the University of Utrecht where Mark Overmars is a professor in game design, reported that “from the beginning of February” Game Maker users will be able to submit their games to YoYo Games’ Store. YoYo Games had previously said that they planned to get […] More

The yoyogames.com virus scanner is down. All games uploaded to the official Game Maker file host must successfully pass through the scanner before they publicly appear on the site.  Normally this process takes a few minutes but members have reported on the GMC and the YoYo Games forums that their games are not being scanned. Games are […] More

YoYo Games’ move into publishing has obviously been planned for a long time given the company has needed to raise investment to fund their expansion. With the Apple App Store having opened in June 2008, after YoYo Games was founded, their initial monetization model must have been adapted. Whether not YoYo realistically thought they would sell many PC […] More

There have been a number of comments in reply to YoYo’s post about GameSpark, in which they endorse the video tutorials and game resource store on offer, critical of YoYo’s decision to support the third-party commercial store. When Mark Overmars announced that he was partnering with YoYo Games for the future development of Game Maker one of […] More

In an article on the Scottish Development International website relating to the Scottish Governments grant to YoYo Games more details are revealed about YoYo Games’ future plans. If the details of YoYo’s publishing process didn’t already seem ambitious enough there are plans to increase staff levels to 50 with a turnover of £18,000,000 (~€20M, ~$29M USD) in […] More