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Sophistication for beginners

Stop Press! There is a genius at the GMC. A topic appeared a couple of days ago in the Community section entitled: “The Game Maker Community’s Members Are Not very sophisticated“. The member puts it well “Many are impolite and have a very sickeningly unsophisticated vocabulary. There are hardly any members with any artistic vision […] More

June 17, 2007, 5:16 am

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Quick Review

Looking back at some of the recent posts on Game Maker Blog and what, if anything, became of them. It appears the GMC are playing catch up to the comments I made regarding criticising games in my post about rating the success of a game. YoYoGames have been featured more often than previously, perhaps because […] More

June 16, 2007, 7:04 am

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Listen to GMking

GMking.org have released a pilot episode of their Audcast, that’s a podcast to you and me. At 31 minutes and 20 seconds it is quite a long pilot, or at least I believe so. The sound quality isn’t great but it was recorded from a Skype conversation over a distance of more than 6,000 miles. […] More

June 15, 2007, 11:26 am

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Customer Support

My experience of customer support at YoYoGames. I initially contacted YoYoGames (YYG) via their helpdesk to ask about how I would go about offering a GameMaker Pro licence as a competition prize. After about 24 hours my message was accepted, I assume with manual approval, onto their helpdesk system and I was e-mailed details of […] More

June 15, 2007, 10:41 am

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Exams Over

Totally off-topic and none Game Maker related but today I had my last exam. Therefore I should have some time to catch up with my list of sites and games to review, so Game Maker Blog may be updated more frequently from this weekend. More

June 14, 2007, 12:22 pm

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How not to promote your website at the GMC

Marketing your site is quite obviously one of the most important aspects of running a website. Put simply, what use is a site without any visitors? The Game Maker Community lets members promote their sites in their forum signatures and by creating a topic about it in the Website Announcements section of the forum. What […] More

June 13, 2007, 11:59 am

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MarkUp: Effective screenshots

You may feel that taking a screenshot is easy, and indeed it is, but a lot of the screenshots I see promoting games at the GMC and on sites devoted to gamemaker games fail to follow even the simplest of rules to make your screenshot effective. There are a number of factors determining the effectiveness […] More

June 11, 2007, 11:26 am

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