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    Nidhogg Wins IGF Nuovo Award

    Messhof’s Nidhogg, described as “a 2 player fencing game with football & platforming elements” has won the Nuovo Award at IGF. The $5,000 award which is given to a game honouring “abstract, short-form, and unconventional game development” has been awarded to a game made using Game Maker for the second year in a row. Last […] More

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    Desktop Dungeons wins IGF Excellence in Design

    Game Maker creation Desktop Dungeons has been awarded the Excellence in Design prize at the Independent Games Festival awards at Game Developers Conference. The game beat Faraway, Minecraft, Nidhogg and Super Crate Box to pick up a cheque for $2,500. On collecting the award the South African creators QCF Design said they had not written […] More

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    Sandy Duncan Interview: App Publishing Process

    In this section: Publishing Apps, YoYo Game Store: Approval, Process, Publishing Agreement, app performance, support for serious developers, giving access to runners to third parties. Sandy Duncan: When publishing we try to choose games which we know aren’t pushing the limits of Game Maker to the extreme because we don’t know how far we can […] More

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    Sandy Duncan Interview – Coming Soon

    Earlier today I spoke with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and asked him about App publishing, Game Maker 8.1, Game Maker for Mac, the HTML5 runner and company itself. I was hoping to post a recording of our conversation here but Sandy asked that I instead publish edited transcripts.  I will do so covering various topics in […] More

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    Game Maker HTML5 Export – Addon for Pro Users

    Over the weekend more information has emerged about the recent HTML5 proof of concept video showcased by YoYo Games. Although at the time of the official blog post announcing the video YoYo Games had not yet decided how they would commercialise the Game Maker to HTML5 converter, yesterday evening Sandy commented stating “we have already […] More

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