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Insights at the intersection of game development, programming and modern tech.

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    2009: Most popular GameMaker Blog Articles

    Five most read articles in 2009: For a time in 2007 YoYo Games were hosting a Game Maker 7 Pro crack in their resources section.  Despite being notified of its existence it remained online for at least a month. Scirra’s Construct is an open source free game development tool.  In January I spoke with one of the people […] More

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    GMIndie Issue 2

    The second issue of GMIndie has been released (direct pdf link). The design has been completely transformed away from the mysterious two column format used in the first issue and the news section has been scrapped. Included are short reviews of a couple of snowy themed games, an interview with GMC user foxinabox and a […] More

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    Game Review – Kick Santa In The Nuts (Krakko)

    To capitalise on the festive cheer, I decided to review a game about Christmas or holiday celebrated around the same period. I couldn’t find any truly neutral holiday games, so I had to stick with Christmas. So, of all the brilliant Christmassy games out there (Daniel Remar’s Garden Gnome Carnage springs to mind), why did […] More

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    20k Downloads, Game Maker 8 Performance, Immortal Defense Sale, In-game Achievements,…

    In the first 24 hours since Game Maker 8 became available it was downloaded over 20,000 times.  This is about 5 times the normal number of Game Maker downloads seen in a day. Various benchmarks have been created by Game Maker users to compare the performance of versions 7 and 8.  RinkuHero wrote “I don’t think […] More

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    Game Maker 8.0 Released

    GameMaker Studio and GameMaker Studio 2 have since been released and GameMaker 8.0 discontinued. YoYo Games have today released version 8 of Game Maker.  The interface remains the same as in previous versions but there have been a number of improvements with completely rewritten Sprite and Script editors and some new features.  This is the […] More

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    The Game Maker 8 Upgrade Process

    Gone is the nasty grey upgrade nag screen of Game Maker 7 and in its place is the colourful Game Maker 8 launch message.  The purpose is still the same though, to encourage Game Maker users to part with $25 for the full, upgraded, Pro version of the software. More

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    Game Maker TV “Cancelled”

    Dan Eggers’ Game Maker TV, which released its first video back in 2007, has cancelled work on producing future episodes of the online video show. Earlier in the week their hosting account expired and now the cancellation has been made official – put down to “a loss of interest” by the shows creators Brad (Revel) […] More

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