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Upgrading Game Maker 8 to GameMaker 8.1

If you currently have legitimate access to Game Maker 8 Pro you can use your Softwrap Purchase Reference number to generate a GameMaker 8.1 License key. To do so click here to visit the YoYo Game Store and press the “Upgrade” button. You will be prompted to enter your purchase reference number for Game Maker […] More

April 15, 2011, 11:13 am

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GameMaker 8.1 Lite Restrictions – Final Decisions

YoYo Games’ original intention was that the free, or Lite, version of GameMaker 8.1 would be unable to create executable files. Indeed early beta versions of the program had the “Create Executable” option from the file menu disabled. This would have meant that in order to play a game that had been created using GameMaker […] More

April 14, 2011, 10:50 pm

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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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