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YoYo Games: 50 Employees and Â£18M turnover in 2012?

In an article on the Scottish Development International website relating to the Scottish Governments grant to YoYo Games more details are revealed about YoYo Games’ future plans. If the details of YoYo’s publishing process didn’t already seem ambitious enough there are plans to increase staff levels to 50 with a turnover of £18,000,000 (~â‚¬20M, ~$29M USD) in […] More

November 3, 2010, 3:34 pm

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Game Review – Vijfentwintigspellen (Erik Leppen)

Vijfentwintigspellen (it’s a Dutch word, don’t worry) secretes a fresh air of purity which is rare in games we see nowadays. It feels more like a test than a game but certainly an interesting one at that. More

November 2, 2010, 1:23 pm

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Maddening HD on iPad Soon (Updated: Out now)

YoYo Games have released a small/badly laid out flow chart showing the process through which submitted games must go before appearing in the YoYo Game Store or on other platforms. An enlarged version is on the right. None of the game requirements, due to be listed in a “Base Line Spec”, have yet been released […] More

November 1, 2010, 6:34 pm

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Community Links: YYG Review Competition, Mark on Publishing, GMCG 2.0

The winner of YoYo Games SkyDiver II review competition has been announced. Member LifeSketcher has a 32GB iPod Touch and a $50 iTunes voucher to look forward to. In the post on the YoYo Games blog Kirsty also promised that news about the next release (‘not Mini Madness‘?) and more information about publishing games will […] More

October 29, 2010, 3:20 pm

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YoYo Games set to go head to head with GameSalad

With the recent long anticipated announcement that YoYo Games will enter into revenue sharing deals with Game Maker users to publish some of their best creations they have positioned themselves against GameSalad. GameSalad, an iOS only development tool, has been around since 2008 and over 700 created games are currently available in the App Store. They very […] More

October 29, 2010, 8:52 am

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Game Review – Super Crate Box (Vlambeer)

Vlambeer‘s first release is more frenetic than a headless chicken on steroids. If you enjoy action-packed platforming and generally kicking arse, you won’t want to stop playing this piece of pixel perfection. More

October 28, 2010, 2:47 pm

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First official details of YoYo Games Publishing Process

Following the release of SkyDiver II on iOS YoYo Games will shortly make available a ‘Base Line Spec’ detailing the requirements of Game Maker games for them to publish in the iTunes store and elsewhere. In a wiki article Sandy provided an outline of the publishing process and revealed the revenue share model. We will […] More

October 27, 2010, 3:05 pm

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Community Links: Indie Kombat, YoYo t-shirt, SkyDiver II pre iOS4

Two Game Maker games are up against each other in Indie Kombat. Banov and Andrew Brophy will compete in this months version of the competition which describes itself as the ‘ultimate bare knuckle game development arena’. Both Game Makers are working on games which are mash-ups of their opponents’ prior creations. The winner is decided […] More

October 25, 2010, 10:57 pm

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