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Community Links – GameMaker 8.1 will be released very soon

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, […] More

April 13, 2011, 10:05 pm

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Skydiver Drop Zone – Android/iPhone Game Review (YoYo Games)

After over a month with no new titles published YoYo Games yesterday released a new game on iPhone and Android. SkyDiver Drop Zone, coded by Andrew McCluskey, is a spin-off from Chad Chisholm’s SkyDiver. You control the same character as in SkyDiver and the basic premise of the game is that you get thrown out […] More

April 9, 2011, 10:17 pm

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Game Maker 8.1: New Lite Restrictions

Once we revealed YoYo Games’ intention to remove the option enabling Game Maker 8.1 Lite to export games in .exe format some strong opinions were voiced against the change. More

April 3, 2011, 7:42 pm

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Weekend Community Links

Uriel Griffin has created a world map to which Game Maker users can add their locations. The areas with the highest concentration of members mapped so far are unsurprisingly the United Kingdom and USA. A similar project started by James Rhodes two years ago is now offline. Spark Lemon is a recently launched “game developers […] More

April 2, 2011, 10:22 am

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April Fool’s Watch

IGN owned fileplanet.com are offering a “Portal 2 Single Player Demo” download which they have promoted across their network of sites. When downloaded and extracted the 5.66MB file (a far cry from the 975.7GB claimed size!) contains a poorly made platformer created in Game Maker. The file has already been downloaded over 5,000 times. On […] More

April 1, 2011, 10:39 am

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GameSalad Raises $6.1M (Partly from Disney)

The Austin Business Journal reports that GameSalad Inc, creators of the easy iPhone game creation tool of the same name, have raised $6.1 million in their second round of Venture Capital funding. The largest investor was Steamboat Ventures who are owned by Disney. GameSalad currently have 20 employees are recruiting for another 9 positions. More

March 31, 2011, 9:11 pm

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Game Maker 8.1: Video of Changes [Part One]

Since this video was made I quizzed Mike Dailly on the absence of the "Publish your game" option and he has stated that this functionality will be added back in. A list of bug fixes can be found in the Game Maker 8.x changelog. Transcript follows "Opening up Game Maker 8.1 one of the first [...]

March 30, 2011, 1:34 pm

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