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    RekameMag – Issue 4

    Andrew McCluskey recently released the fourth issue of his GameMaker magazine RekameMag. Download 7.8MB pdf: Dropbox Host-A The Flaws of Ratings explores the lunacy behind numerical based rating systems commonly used to review and compare games.  In the end everything is subjective and the article concludes that numbers should be taken with a big pinch […] More

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    New Game Maker Community Theme

    YoYo Games have updated the default forum skin at the official Game Maker Community.  The new, much darker, theme is pretty much a complete overhaul and features a grey top navigational bar similar to that introduced on the main YoYo Games website last month. More

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    indie(Magazine) Issue 10 – “Hiatus”

    The tenth issue of indie(Magazine) has today been released.  This means the magazine has now released the same number of issues as Game Maker’s Digest. The magazine starts with a three page round up of indie gaming news before 3 GameMaker games are reviewed. The games are Helicopter Hero in which you fly around a […] More

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    Community Links: Plug Pulled on App Inventor and HTML5 Ogg Vorbis Support

    Google has scrapped development of its App Inventor for Android. A rather unexpected development given that Google are getting more involved in social gaming with today’s announcement of Games in Google+. Perhaps a replacement is being lined up? Scirra last week launched a campaign to get Ogg Vorbis support in Internet Explorer and Safari. The […] More

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    GameMaker HTML5 Windows Beta “Anticipated” for September

    In a post on their blog earlier today YoYo Games stated that they currently “anticipate” a beta release of GameMaker HTML5 in early September.  On Twitter yesterday Mark Overmars also revealed that initially the GameMaker HTML5 IDE will only be available on Windows. You can request an invite for the GameMaker HTML5 beta here. If […] More

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    Community Links

    57 games were made and submitted in the recent 3rd GMC GameJam. You can vote for your favourite games up until 13th August. Issue 8 of indieMagazine [pdf] was released earlier this week. The company behind the Unity Game Engine has secured $12 million in funding from existing investor Sequoia and Chinese and Singapore based […] More

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    YoYo Games Launch Tech Blog

    YoYo Games have launched their promised “Tech Blog” [rss] which will give GameMaker users an insight into the workings and development of the software. The first post, written by Mike Dailly, focuses on the upcoming HTML5 version of GameMaker which recently had a private alpha release. Mike writes that YoYo Games “hope to release some […] More

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    GameMaker HTML5 in “closed Alpha build”

    YoYo Games earlier disclosed that ‘GameMaker HTM5’ will be released “this year” and recently announced that GameMaker HTML5 now has a closed Alpha build. We can review a product exported from this upcoming Game Maker version already at http://www.yoyogames.com, where the site now features a HTML5 version of its homepage animation replacing its ActionScript carousel […] More

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