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GMIndie Plan 250-page Game Maker eBook

GMIndie are working on an ambitious project to create a series of Game Maker eBooks – the first which will provide an introduction to the software scheduled for release in July 2010. The idea for a comprehensive tutorial series reminds me of Carl Gustafsson’s Beginners Guide to Game Maker Programming, a long unofficial introduction to […] More

April 20, 2010, 3:58 pm

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YoYo Games Virus Scanner Defective

As a quick warning, uploading games on YoYo Games currently appears to present you with the Virus Scanner account telling you (via the usual private message as well as an email notification) that your game has been deleted and an administrator informed due to a “virus having been found”. This has been affecting uploads for […] More

April 16, 2010, 8:40 pm

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YoYo Games Comp06 at End of April / GM4Mac Update

Earlier today YoYo Games posted three glog entries covering different subjects. One was on the subject of the fifth competition, in which CEO Sandy Duncan expressed pleasedness at the number of entrants (over 500 in total) and the standard of many of the entries. He also expressed an aim for the company to finish judging […] More

April 14, 2010, 11:56 am

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Two Interesting Approaches to Game Monetization

An approach often used to monetize flash games is ‘game sponsorship’. This is where individual companies or flash game distribution websites fund (or buy) a game from its creator and then insert their own branding within the game. You have probably played many games where the logo of a free games website appears within the […] More

April 13, 2010, 9:30 am

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Stencyl Games Emerge

The Stencyl game creation tool which has been in development for a couple of years has finally released 3 games which are fully playable within a browser that have been created using its engine. The project, which no longer plans to be open-source, had been labelled vapourware by many as little had emerged publicly from the […] More

April 10, 2010, 12:23 pm

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Mid-week Community Links

IVGMU have posted an interview with AlexitrÃ³n. This is only their third interview with users of Game Maker in three months. More general confusion at GMIndie. After apparently spending $150 to purchase a blogspot blog and having recently launched a scheme whereby they would pay their contributors, leader Brian Fetcher today posted on his forums […] More

April 8, 2010, 11:52 am

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GMIndie Magazine – Issue 8

The seventh issue of this magazine was supposed to be the last before the release of a new publication, Game Developers Digest, which planned to focus on computer gaming in general and not just Game Maker. However an eighth issue (2.8MB pdf) has now been published which, at 18 pages, is double the length of […] More

April 3, 2010, 11:27 am

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