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    GameMakerTech Forum on the move

    GameMakerTech‘s notoriously unreliable forum has finally moved hosts. Connection Problems Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. http://www.gmtech.vlexo.net/forum/ The new forum can be found at http://www.gmtech.kwix.info/forum, all posts and user accounts have been moved over. For a magazine which is […] More

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    Post count is back!

    At a risk of sounding like gmnews, Chronic has announced that member post counts will once again be implemented at the GMC (from effect immediately). Since the current IPB powered GMC came into existence in 2003 there have never been public post counts. The previous eZboard forum did have post counts but a decision was […] More

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    I bought GameMaker School

    Broadcasting to the world a domain name you plan to register isn’t the brightest idea is it? Not so when I am king of domains starting “GameMaker…” (GameMakerBlog.com, GameMaker.tv, GameMakerStream.com, GameMakerTV.com, GameMaker.es, GameMakerNews.com, GameMaker8.com). GameMakerSchool.com has been added to my list. Some of you will probably think this was a harsh move on my half […] More

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    Sandy: “our customer support is terrible”

    Sandy Duncan CEO of YoYo Games has admitted that their “customer support is terrible” and that “the DRM sucks”. “If it helps I think some parts of the site suck, I think, at times, that the DRM sucks and I think, always, that our customer support is terrible.I spend most of my time and energy […] More

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    New look YoYo-ized GMC

    The GMC is looking distinctly green. Here is a quick comparison conducted between the ‘old’ GMC (on 16th March) and the recently updated YoYo Games styled version (today). I am unable to find the option to revert back to the old version which I remember an administrator stating would probably remain. More

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    GMC Registration Problems

    Lovely, the GMC admins have just realised that an error in their almost-3-years-old script has prevented registrations for the past week or so. Not much has been happening recently, quite a disappointment really. Guess we are just waiting for YoYo to cause another controversy to kick things off. Oh, and GameMakerTech issue 11 should be […] More

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    YoYoGames’ Forum o’doom

    The one half-decent thing that the YoYoGames forums had going for them was the fact that members were not allowed signatures. However, this rule has changed so now we look forward to tacky animated banners and huge images on an already slow site, oh joy. Quite why YoYoGames needed their own forum I don’t know. […] More

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    Why you shouldn’t add a forum

    Personally I think adding a forum to your website is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. A blog post by Grego advising people on how to create a half decent forum, if they insist on having one, reiterated many of the points I had spinning around in my head. There is no point […] More

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    Clone forums suck

    A couple of days ago I came across an excellent article by GMC member and fellow British blogger and moaner Grego on the subject of clone forums. These “Wannabe Forums” as Grego calls them really drive me insane too. Going back a few years to when I was using gamemaker the first time these forums […] More