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Game Maker Competition Statistical Analysis

Why do people hold game making contests? To reward their sites visitors? Partly. But competitions also have the potential to attract new people to a site and boost the number and quality of games on offer. I was asked recently to give my opinion on a contest that an unnamed Game Maker focused site is […] More

by Mark Smith August 29, 2009, 9:34 pm
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YoYoGames.com was down for more than 24 hours

All websites occasionally suffer from a small amount of downtime YoYo Games being no exception. However earlier this weekend YoYoGames.com was unavailable to access for more than a day. The affected areas were the main site, wiki, glog and forum – the Game Maker Community (GMC) was unaffected as it is hosted elsewhere. The site now […] More

by Mark Smith August 9, 2009, 12:59 pm
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YoYo Games set to reveal Monetization plans for Game Developers

It looks like we can expect some exciting announcements from YoYo Games in the near future. “The C++ Runner was not written to make GM faster, but to make it possible to write games on the PC (or Mac) and then run them on OTHER DEVICES. More on that quite soon. … We crave ACCESSIBILITY…giving […] More

by Mark Smith July 13, 2009, 1:25 pm
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Unsurprisingly YoYo Games are yet to make a profit

At the GMC users with little knowledge of how a business works expect to get it all without paying anything. As Sir Alan Sugar would say these people “haven’t got a bloody clue” of economics and hold delusions that YoYo is some big bad corporate enemy that has snatched Game Maker away from its creator […] More

by Mark Smith June 7, 2009, 3:40 pm
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Sound Effects creators for Game Maker 8 wanted

Mark Overmars has revealed that YoYo Games received over 25 applications from people wanting to make free-to-use sprites for distribution with Game Maker 8. The spriters’ identities however have not been revealed as contracts have not yet been made with the successful applicants. YoYo’s search now turns to sound effects that will be distributed in the next […] More

by Mark Smith May 17, 2009, 12:36 pm
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New wiki design

The official Game Maker wiki on YoYoGames.com has today received a face-lift as a new theme designed by GMKing has been installed. The new look, as yet un-announced by YYG, is a much-needed improvement on the previous template which suffered from a narrow page design and small text. My only criticism is the placement of […] More

by Mark Smith May 5, 2009, 3:31 pm
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Prodigy Game Magazine becomes a semi-decent publication

…with their newest issue. Featuring a new layout and some decent writing. But wait, hold your horses – do you think that our good friend Nate is responsible for this? The explanation to this seemingly miraculous event is simple: he had outside help from somebody insane enough to help him. So, here’s some bits from […] More

by Mark Smith February 28, 2009, 8:07 am
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In brief: Time Contest and vulnerabilities

After a successful first competition, albeit with few entries, gmarcade have launched their second game making contest with the theme of ‘time’. The vulnerabilities discovered by James Rhodes in YoYo Games’ Instant Play remain unfixed more than three months after they were bought to the attention of the website. More

by Mark Smith February 21, 2009, 4:23 pm
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YoYo Games will finally allow users to delete their own games again

In December of last year YoYo Games removed the option that enabled their members to delete games they had uploaded. Mark Overmars responded to the critiscim of the decision by saying that users should not have to delete their games, however the decision has been reversed today with CEO Sandy Duncan commenting “no idea […] More

by Mark Smith February 8, 2009, 3:21 pm
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GameMaker pricing to increase worldwide

Sandy Duncan has announced that as of next week the price of purchasing the pro version of GameMaker 7 will increase. Citing the revaluation of world currencies as the reason why UK customers will see larger increases than the rest of the world Sandy also says that the cost of running YoYo Games is, unsuprisingly, […] More

by Mark Smith January 28, 2009, 6:04 am
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YoYo Updates

YoYo Games have managed to make several updates to their blog in the last few weeks, I guess the team got together and decided to put together some New Year Resolutions of getting more updates to the members. For anyone who wishes to discuss all the things they have announced, however deeply detest using the […] More

by Mark Smith January 26, 2009, 5:21 pm
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YoYo Helpdesk to Change (Finally!)

As stated in a recent interview with GameMaker Tech magazine YoYo Games will be upgrading their online help desk which provides support to GameMaker users. 1. We promise to respond to every help desk request within 24 hours on weekdays. Weekend requests will normally be dealt with on Mondays. 2. The existing queues have been […] More

by Mark Smith December 15, 2008, 3:44 pm

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