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    Game Maker 8: Second Release Candidate

    Update: The full version of Game Maker 8 has been released. A second Game Maker 8 release candidate has been made available for testing by YoYo Games. As of yet there has not been an official announcement that this is available but it can be downloaded here (5.5MB .exe). It is now less certain that […] More

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    Ten Years of Game Maker 1999-2009

    It is 10 years to the day since Mark Overmars released the first public version of Game Maker, 1.1.  Since then Game Maker has undergone huge changes with the addition of Game Maker Language scripting, the introduction of many more drag and drop icons and functions, 3D, particles and extensions. The userbase has grown from […] More

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    Time Travel Competition

    FredFredrickson’s Reflect Games is holding a time-travel themed game making contest. Games can involve time travel, take place at an alternate time in the past or future, include a time machine or anything else related to time-travel. First prize is $30 of games on Steam, second place gets $10 of games and the third placed […] More

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    Which of these Game Maker 8 logos do you prefer?

    I stumbled across four entries submitted to the Game Maker 8 logo contest uploaded to the Flickr account of Sandy Duncan.  Presumably these have made the final.  The competition rules stated that there would be five runners-up so perhaps the winning entry is absent. Click on the thumbnails below to view the logos. [nggallery id=4] [poll […] More

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    Logo competition finalists have been chosen

    Five finalists have been selected in the competition to design a new logo for Game Maker earning themselves a free copy of Game Maker 8 Pro. In response to an increasing level of criticism directed towards YoYo Games by Game Maker users frustrated at the lack of announcements regarding the current state of the competition, Beneibe posted a […] More

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