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Yesterday Scirra launched the licensing programme for their Construct 2 HTML5 game maker. There are three versions of the software. The free edition places limits on the number of resources that can be used within a game and restricts access to certain features. The Standard ($65) and Business ($255) packages remove most of these restrictions. […] More

YoYo Games employee Andrew McCluskey has posted online the first publicly playable game created using the HTML5 version of GameMaker. R5Maddening is a version of Remaddening created using an early build of GameMaker HTML5, which is currently in closed alpha. Update: A HTML5 version of Jesse Venbrux’s They Need to be Fed is also available […] More

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

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