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New Book: Getting Started with Game Maker – Author Interview

Evidence of the increasing use of Game Maker in education can be seen by the upcoming release of the third(?) English language book that focuses on the game development platform. Published by Course Technology Jerry Lee Ford’s Getting Started With Game Maker will be coming out next month. Ahead of its launch we caught up […] More

June 30, 2009, 11:37 am

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Public Game Maker 8 Beta “not far away”

Sandy Duncan has revealed that a “GM 8 Beta is not far away….”. The statement was made in a response to a question by Polish student Piotr Gnys on Twitter. A preliminary list of features for Game Maker 8 was only revealed a couple of days ago so the news may come as a […] More

June 28, 2009, 10:40 pm

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Second Game Maker Mac beta sent to testers

Marc Simpson, YoYo Games’ “in-house programmer and occasional system admin” has this evening, Saturday 27th, sent the second version of the Game Maker 7 mac beta to those enrolled in the closed beta testing programme. On Sunday 28th Sandy added a message to testers “This is much more stable, though not completely bug free. We […] More

June 27, 2009, 11:19 pm

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Game Maker 8 Features Listed: Resource Exporter Included

Mark Overmars has posted on the YoYo Games blog with a preliminary list of features that are planned to be included in Game Maker 8. We already knew about the improved image editor with support for alpha transparency, the new bundled resources that YoYo were seeking artists for and GMB had speculated about an object […] More

June 26, 2009, 9:40 pm

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GameJolt Contest Results

The results of the first GameJolt contest have been announced. A total of about 30 games were entered and the majority of entries and all three winners developed in Game Maker. There were however a number of entries made using Construct. The three winning games earn their creators a place in the beta of GameJolt’s ad-revenue […] More

June 25, 2009, 10:38 am

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Game Maker’s C++ Runner is in Testing

Very little is known about the progress of the C++ Game Maker runner re-write which YoYo Games intend to use with Game Maker 8. There is however a version of the runner, created in November last year, that works with (some) Game Maker 7 games which is currently in testing. I know this is probably […] More

June 23, 2009, 8:07 pm

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Mark Overmars Game Maker Competition

The University of Utrecht (where Mark Overmars is a professor) is planning to hold a Creative Game Challenge for games made using versions 7 or 8 of Game Maker (version 8 should appear in Autumn 2009). Intended for students in ‘Voortgezet onderwijs’ (age group 13 to 17/18) the theme of the competition will be ‘animals’ […] More

June 21, 2009, 2:46 pm

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