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    Stencyl compares itself to GameMaker

    One of the founders of the currently under development game creation kit Stencyl has commented on the responses given by YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan in his recent interview with the GameMaker Tech magazine. On his blog Jon from Stencyl highlights the vast differences between the commercial YoYo Games and their self-funded ‘hobby’. “…while competition […] More

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    YoYo Games to share revenue in 2009

    Sandy Duncan has announced YoYo Games’ intention to sell user-created games from their popular website. In an interview with the GameMaker Technology magazine Duncan said “my focus is on taking the best games and turning them into ‘products’ that we can sell. We’ve already quietly started work on putting the infrastructure together for this. We […] More

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    25,000 Games now Online at YoYo

    Earlier today YoYo Games passed the 25,000 games threshold as maze game Treasure Remix became the 25,001st GameMaker application to be uploaded to the site. The Games on YoYo have collectively been played more than 5,100,000 times, an average of over 200 plays per game. However the distribution of plays per game is far from […] More

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    YoYoGames.com gets a makeover

    The YoYoGames website has changed, featuring a slightly altered layout. According to the YYG “glog”, there still are a few bugs on the site: We know there are still one or two bugs, but I took the decision to go ahead and deploy since most of you will have more time to use the site […] More

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    YYG/GMPedia wiki merge now official

    YoYo Games have announced that the rumoured merge between their wiki and GMPedia, a community project by GMking is now official. Earlier, the GMking blog confirmed the merge. All 600 articles from the original GMpedia wiki will be migrated onto the YoYo Games wiki. This also includes articles not related to Game Maker, but computer […] More

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    YYG Wiki still changing…

    As GameMaker Blog suggested a week ago it appears that YoYo Games are preparing their wiki for a merger with gmpedia.org. All adverts on the YoYo Games wiki have been removed and its contents have been licensed thorough a Creative Commons License, which fits in with the GMKing ethos. …we want the new Wiki to […] More

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    YYG Wiki and GMPedia to merge?

    In a move which looks like it could be the start of an integration of gmpedia articles into the recently relaunched YoYo Games Wiki, the administrators from gmpedia have had accounts created on YoYo Games’ Wiki – retaining their admin privileges. However there has been no official acknowledgement of this by either YYG or GMKing. […] More

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    YYG results by Thursday

    Sandy Duncan has written on the YoYo Games blog that the results of YoYo Games’ competition will be announced “NO LATER than 5 pm UK time on Thursday”. The co-operation themed competition was YoYo’s third and had attracted over 275 entries. The winner will receive $1000, with a second-place prize of $500 and $250 for […] More

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    YoYo Games Wiki to Grow

    Mark Overmars has expressed his desire to turn the currently pathetic wiki on YoYo Games into a central source of GameMaker information. “As some of you might have noticed we have changed the Wiki to use the well-known MediaWiki software. Our hope is that the wiki becomes the best source of information about the use […] More

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    YoYo Games Rating system to Change

    Many people have moaned at the GMC about what they view as inadequacies with the rating system on YoYo Games. Whilst this is a relatively trivial matter for most of us the conspiracy of the so-called ‘downraters’ appears to have got under the skin of plenty of GameMaker users. In a move that may please […] More

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