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    10 Million Games Played at YoYoGames.com

    The 41,000+ games uploaded at YoYoGames.com have now been played over 10,000,000 times in total. Although this is a nice milestone figure for the site to reach the number of game plays per day has not increased over the past year. The game with the most plays by far remains sakisa‘s Crimelife 2 which has […] More

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    GMLive’s Third Game Maker Radio Show (Listen again)

    What is it with those expected on GMLive not turning up?  Dan Eggers (as usual) was absent yet for some reason the hosts were still expecting him to turn up along with last weeks co-host Robin Monks. It was understandable therefore that the show didn’t start off particularly strongly with many topics briefly skipped over in the first half […] More

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    GMLive – Third Show Topics

    This Saturday GMLive will broadcast their third live global Game Maker radio discussion. Topics that will be talked about include GameJolt’s latest contest, the return of Prodigygm magazine as Tailware Times, Sandy’s recent appearance at the Casual Games Forum in London and the Halloween episode of Game Maker TV. No-one from the Game Maker Community […] More

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    Game Review – Circum Skull

    Sometimes, it’s the simplest of games that are the most addictive. David Scatliffe’s “Mouse No. Probably A Rat” was an example of this (see my last review). So is this arcade offering – Jack Brockley’s “Circum Skull”, which I noticed in the mid-week community links posted just before this review (stuck for games to review […] More

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    Mid-week Community Links

    Challenge other Game Maker Blog readers at Jack Brockley’s last mini-game, Circum Skull. The online highscores table (powered by VEX) can be found here. 2DBoy.com have released some interesting statistics from their recent “Pay what you like” offer on World of Goo. When will Game Maker 8 be released?  Lots of people want to know […] More

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    GameJolt Minimal Contest

    GameJolt have launched their third contest. The week long game making competition has the theme ‘Minimal’ and is open to users of any development software. The winner gets to pick a game of their choice from Steam. Full details at the GameJolt forum. More

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    Micropayments on YoYo Games?

    At today’s Casual Games Forum in London YoYo Games Ltd CEO Sandy Duncan spoke of the merits of micropayments. Micropayments (wiki article) are transactions with a unusually small monetary value often used to unlock extra features in games. In 2007 90% of Habbo Hotel’s $60M+ revenue came from the sale of virtual goods. I didn’t buy a […] More

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