Mastering GameMaker Studio: Reviews, Tutorials, and Indie Game Insights
Bret Hudson is planning to launch a “new indie game development media and education team” which he has named indie(Function);. indie(Function) will initially consist of indie(Magazine), indie(Radio) and “indie(Books)”. Bret states that the group hope to continue projects abandoned by GMIndie when it merged into GMVision last September. Since then GMVision have not released any […]
GameMaker 8.1 will be released very soon. That’s the latest word from primary developer Mike Dailly writing on his blog in his latest post about Game Maker development. Yesterday the “final release candidate” was distributed to testers. So far there have only been two entries into Dangerous Dave’s Pointed Games competition. Three prizes are available, […]
Jesse Venbrux’s Frozzd and You Probably Won’t Make It have been released on the Mac App Store at $1 a piece. On the first day the store was available both titles were in the top 20 paid apps. GMVision and a media organisation calling themselves Game Polisher (who used to run a ‘radio’ show) are […]
After a four month summer* break Andrew McCluskey, Jack Brockley and myself are back with a fourth episode of the GMTalk Game Maker podcast, recorded Sunday. We were joined for the 54 minute show by Josh Conley and Game Maker decompiler author Zach Reedy.
The main topic covered in the show is the Game Maker 8 decompiler and we also discuss Andrew’s game for iOS and have a very brief look at the sixth YoYo Games competition. Also covered is the spotlight games procedure, what the demise of Realtime Worlds means for YYG, Andrew comes up with some Game Maker ideas and we have a look at the contents of the upcoming Rekame Mag 3 as part of our ever-present magazines feature.
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Just over three thousand people took part in the Game Maker survey organised by Brian Fetcher/GMIndie/GMVision.
A 72 page PDF document listing the results has now been released. Where the questions were multiple choice the percentages are given and for write-in questions a selection of answers have been shown.
View survey results: PDF, Google Docs.
GMVision’s Joshua Pedroza has interviewed the leader of Team SkyFire, Sokota, in his latest video released today (watch on YouTube). Team SkyFire have been working on their platformer stasis for over a year. After receiving criticism over the subscription-only policy of Game Maker’s Digest Brian has promised “NO more long annoying forum sign-ups to subscribe” […]
Jesse Venbrux (2DCube) has won first place, and the $1000 cash prize, with his platform game They Need to be Fed in YoYo Games’ fifth handheld games themed competition. The contest which was open from the end of 2009 to March 30th this year attracted 489 entries. After all the games had been played by the YoYo […]
A quick round up of various April Fools’ themed stupidity that can currently be found on Game Maker websites.
“The GMC has a new forum called GMC Off-Topic. Membership is by invitation only, according to 3 criteria.
In order to post there, members must fit into at least ONE of these categories:
1. Be revered and admired by most GMC members and Staff… or
2. Provide insightful and scathing criticism (that’s deserved)… or
3. Have absolutely nothing useful to contribute.If you fall into one of these categories, you may be selected to participate in the Off-Topic Forum. If not, just use the regular GMC.”
Some of the created posts (which actually appeared before April Fools day) were quite amusing. The first posts came from NakedPaulToast berating the creation of such a forum, Frederick saying how great the section would be to promote his radio show, a post about porting Game Maker to toasters from a member whose previous posts had all been in a Game Maker on Linux topic, and Caniac, whose avatar features him wearing a hockey Jersey, slagging off American hockey teams.
This time last year we asked whether 2009 would see the release of Game Maker 8 and Game Maker for Mac. You thought so with these two predicitions for the year receiving the most votes in our poll (results repeated below).
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Here is a look back at how the predictions fared:
Magazines
Unlike 2008, which saw the launch of three decent multi-issue magazines, 2009 has been a quiet year for Game Maker publications. Indeed no single magazine has released more than three issues in the past 12 months and the list of all releases is quite short:
Yesterday GMVision released a video review of the 3D FPS Infinite War. An archive of last weekends GMLive radio show has also been uploaded. Sam Whited has created a Twitter list of influential Game Maker users. Wow there has been a lot of reaction to the new Game Maker logo. Hopefully we can now move […]
All four Game Maker games in the final of the 2BeeGames contest (total prize fund $15,000) have made it past the first elimination stage. The three finalists that received the smallest number of votes in a public poll were removed from the running and the same will happen in the next round. Currently Vertigo Games’s Kablooey! is […]
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