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NakedPaulToasts’s Game Maker 8.1 Wager

Prominent Game Maker Community member NakedPaulToast is running a wager at the official Game Maker forum betting that: “YYGs will release a GM Windows upgrade [public beta or complete] within approximately two months, let’s say on or before April 20, 2011 (GMT).” The “friendly challenge” was crafted in response to NPT’s frustration at the number […] More

February 21, 2011, 11:38 am

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Prison Ball – iPhone and Android Game Review (Desert Dog)

Prison Ball is a loosely jail themed breakout game with 3D style bricks. Colourful blocks are arranged in a variety of shapes and patterns which can be destroyed by directing a ball towards them from a bat at the bottom of the screen. The iPhone and Android versions of the game are very similar to that available freely […] More

February 17, 2011, 9:11 pm

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Community Links: YoYo Games Android Rollout

Four YoYo Games titles first released on iOS, Karoshi, Teka Teki, They Need to Be Fed and Maddening have today been put on sale in the Android Marketplace. Karoshi is priced at £1.19 on Android, compared to £0.59 on iOS, whilst the others are priced at £0.59 each (the same price as for iOS). Following […] More

February 15, 2011, 5:51 pm

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GMare – Open Source Game Maker Room Editor

Michael Mercado has released an early version of an open source alternative to the built in Game Maker room editor, GMare. Written in C# the editor features a zoom, tile fill and many other tile features. Admittedly this would have been much more useful if it was released months or even years back, given that […] More

February 12, 2011, 2:21 pm

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Mr Karoshi Links and Competitions

There have been some delays with the Android release of Mr Karoshi but plenty of press around YoYo Games’ latest iPhone title. iPhoneGamerUK have posted a walkthrough of the first 20 Mr Karoshi levels. Though it is the later levels which are the hardest! In their review of the game touchArcade are critical of the […] More

February 11, 2011, 7:00 pm

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iOS Game Review – Mr. Karoshi (Jesse Venbrux)

Karoshi, erm, Mr. Karoshi returns in this fun, addicting platform puzzler for the iOS. Its creator, Jesse Venbrux, is not new to developing for this platform. He recently released They Need to Be Fed a few months ago through YYG. More

February 9, 2011, 9:29 pm

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Android Game Review – Skydiver HD (Chad Chisholm)

Skydiver HD is the second title to be ported by YoYo Games to the Android platform, a follow up to the free Simply Solitaire HD released last month. The game sells for £1.19 (Sandy has provided an explanation for the higher Android price compared to iOS) and was my first purchase from the Android Marketplace. […] More

February 9, 2011, 12:10 pm

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