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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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Game Maker 8.1 Lite Cannot Create Executables (Updated: Change of Plan?)

The Lite version of the Game Maker 8.1 beta cannot export executable Game Maker files. This is one update that is missing from the official list of changes. Whilst testing the software I had entirely overlooked the removal of this feature until this morning when registered upgrade keys were cancelled for a test. This had […] More

March 30, 2011, 1:10 pm

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Game Maker 8.1 – Limited Beta Begins

A “very limited” beta of Game Maker 8.1 has begun. The beta features a new non-Softwrap registration system alongside a variety of IDE upgrades and bug fixes. Bugs reported so far have been fixed by Mike at a good pace. Hopefully the “report a bug” toolbar option will remain present after the initial public release […] More

March 25, 2011, 3:52 pm

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Mid-week Community Links: “Appstore” and GameSalad Differences

Another development in the “App Store” trademark case. Apple is to sue Amazon over their use of the “Appstore” name for their Android app marketplace (BBC) In an interview with CasualGaming.biz GameSalad (easy iPhone game creation) founders contrast their product to Game Maker. How would you say your pro version compares to another design tool […] More

March 23, 2011, 6:44 pm

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