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Maddening HD on iPad Soon (Updated: Out now)

YoYo Games have released a small/badly laid out flow chart showing the process through which submitted games must go before appearing in the YoYo Game Store or on other platforms. An enlarged version is on the right. None of the game requirements, due to be listed in a “Base Line Spec”, have yet been released […] More

by Mark Smith November 1, 2010, 6:34 pm
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First official details of YoYo Games Publishing Process

Following the release of SkyDiver II on iOS YoYo Games will shortly make available a ‘Base Line Spec’ detailing the requirements of Game Maker games for them to publish in the iTunes store and elsewhere. In a wiki article Sandy provided an outline of the publishing process and revealed the revenue share model. We will […] More

by Mark Smith October 27, 2010, 3:05 pm
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YoYo Games App Store Renames, Game submission nearly open

A couple of months back we reported that YoYo Games’ newly created marketplace, which they named the YoYo App Store, might have to change its name because “App Store” is a registered trademark of Apple. It appears this might have been the case as the online marketplace has now been renamed to the “YoYo Game […] More

by Mark Smith October 22, 2010, 9:10 pm
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100,000 games at YoYoGames.com

One hundred thousand games have now been uploaded to YoYoGames.com The figure was reached just a few minutes ago. Games on the site have been played more than 14 million times and this figure excludes games replayed after they have been downloaded. Interestingly ‘only’ 55,340 games appear when browsing the site – that’s a lot […] More

by Mark Smith October 22, 2010, 8:19 pm
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Finalists of YoYo Games Competition 6 Announced

Fifteen finalists have been announced in YoYo Games’ sixth, discovery themed, Game Maker contest. The ‘celebrity’ judges have also been announced and consist of community administrators, Jesse Venbrux, Dave Jones (Realtime Worlds) as well as YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and Game Maker creator Mark Overmars. Finalists: YoYo by Bagdaddy Games Cleft by Kinta* 5 […] More

by Mark Smith October 6, 2010, 4:17 pm
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Jesse Venbrux to work at YoYo Games “for a few weeks”

Jesse Venbrux (2Dcube) will be working at YoYo Games for a couple of weeks before moving to Japan for a job at Q-Games. Jesse is best known for his Karoshi series and They Need to be Fed which won YoYo Games’ fifth competition. In a post on his blog Jesse writes that he will be […] More

by Mark Smith October 2, 2010, 6:22 pm
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YoYo Games and GMC down earlier

For a period of about four hours last night (from 1:30 BST) the Game Maker Community was unavailable. Wade McGillis also reported that the main YoYoGames.com website was down. This morning both are back online but it appears that the site is being restored from a backup – a process which has not yet been […] More

by Mark Smith October 2, 2010, 10:36 am
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YoYo Games start contacting game authors for iPhone versions

YoYo Games have started to contact selected game authors to offer them the chance to publish their titles on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. A new video has also been released showing NAL playing mini MADNESS, a smaller version of his madnessMADNESSmadness game (incidentally this was included in our earlier list of Game Maker games […] More

by Mark Smith October 1, 2010, 12:51 pm
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YoYoComp06 Round 2 Games Announced

YoYo Games have announced the 42 games which have made it through to round 2 of their sixth competition. The latest round of judging again reduced the number of contenders by more than half just two days after the contest was narrowed to 107 entries. More

by Mark Smith September 17, 2010, 3:41 pm
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107 Games through to YoYo Games Competition 6 Round 1

107 games have made it to the first round of YoYo Games’ competition. In a glog post, which I found rather confusing, Kirsty Scott writes “We should have the final Round 1 games or so announced within a week or so”. The list of games through to round 1 can however already be found in the […] More

by Mark Smith September 15, 2010, 3:46 pm
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Competition 6 Judging Delayed? Not so transparent.

YoYo Games promised that the judging process for their sixth Game Maker competition would be “more transparent” however since the announcement of a contest status dashboard 12 days ago nothing has been heard. In a post on September 1st Russell Kay wrote “We will be judging round 1 this week, where we will be looking at […] More

by Mark Smith September 13, 2010, 1:31 pm
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Competition Six Entries Confirmed

YoYo Games have released a list of the 275 games which have been entered in their sixth competition and have created a portal where you can see how judging is progressing. The figure for entered games is higher than we reported earlier today as it appears games which were labelled using the old style tags have […] More

by Mark Smith September 1, 2010, 1:26 pm

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