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    in Development, GameMaker Development

    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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    in Competition

    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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    in Game Maker 8

    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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    in YoYo Games

    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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    in YoYo Games

    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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    in GameMaker Media

    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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    in GameMaker Media

    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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