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GameMakerBlog in Top Ten of Top Gaming Blogs to Follow in 2018

GameMakerBlog strives to be as helpful as possible to our fellow Indie Devs so it makes us very happy when we get awards like this. We appreciate aggregate websites like tierragamer because they filter down the many different blogs and websites available into a concise list with a summary on each so you can quickly see […] More

by Hikati Games January 21, 2018, 12:34 am
in Community, Development, GameMaker Studio, Games, Indie Insight, Interviews, Technical

[Indie Interview] uZombie made in GameMaker!

Today I sit down with Indie Developer: Jonathon Colibaba to talk about his new android game: uZombie, a unique mobile RPG where you are not just a zombie but a Zombie Leader with intelligence. There is a myriad of features and things to do: Turn civilians, police and military into your own undead army, level […] More

by Hikati Games November 28, 2017, 6:48 pm
in Community, Competition, Free Software, Games

[Giveaway] LetThemCome rewards GameMaker Community with chances to win free steam keys

LetThemCome giving away 10 free Steam Keys LetThemCome….and enter for a chance to win a free steam key! LetThemCome and GameMakerBlog recently discussed the development process of the game and the great community that surrounds GameMaker Studio itself. Based on a mutual idea of rewarding the commitment of fellow developers, enthusiasts and helpful people who […] More

by Hikati Games October 11, 2017, 8:00 pm
in GameMaker Studio 2, Games, Indie Insight, Technical

[Made in GameMaker] LetThemCome launches on Steam and Xbox with guns blazing

Endless Waves of Aliens? Big Guns? A BOOMBOX? Let Them Come has everything you need to recreate a great Rambo in space story, after all they drew first blood right? While I am pretty pumped to start mindlessly mowing down hordes of ugly looking aliens what intrigues me most is how great this game looks […] More

by Hikati Games October 3, 2017, 4:11 pm
in Examples, GameMaker Studio 2, Technical, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials

[GameMaker Tutorial] Simple Embedded database using Grid Data Structure

GameMakerBlog Tutorials Create A Simple Database with DS_GRID Games require a lot of information, everything from player hp, mana, level, skills, attack power, sprites, and even quest lists. Storing that data is a common problem that has many different solutions, though when you want to make something simple, portable and only use the base language […] More

by Hikati Games October 2, 2017, 4:24 pm
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in Development, GameMaker Studio 2, Technical, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials

[GameMaker Tutorial] How to setup a simple slot machine reward system

GameMakerBlog Tutorials Simple Slot Machine Reward System If you play Adventure Capitalist then you would have probably seen the slot machine reward system that gives you a spin after you unlock certain milestones. Black Desert Online also has a type of slot machine reward system that can give you some pretty incredible rewards: a […] More

by Hikati Games September 18, 2017, 4:01 pm
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in Development, GameMaker Studio 2, Technical, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials

[GameMaker Tutorial] Drawing custom health bars with sprite parts

GameMakerBlog Tutorials Drawing Health Bars Health bars (or HP Bars) are almost mandatory in any game, and even if it is not a traditional health bar these techniques will hold true for any bar that has positive or negative progress including Time based bars like those seen in Adventure Capitalist, Loading bars to let players know […] More

by Hikati Games September 5, 2017, 6:53 am
in Development, GameMaker for Mac, GameMaker Studio 2, YoYo Games

GameMaker Studio 2 Annouces official Mac version in newly released 2.1 milestone

GameMaker Studio 2 – v2.1 Released August 25th, 2017 It finally happened, yes GameMaker Studio 2 version 2.1 has been released and with it comes a whole bag of updates. Most important of the new features though, is the official support for Mac; this is something that has been not only lacking but asked for […] More

by Hikati Games August 28, 2017, 5:04 am
in Development, GameMaker Development, GameMaker Studio 2, Technical, YoYo Games

GameMaker Studio 2 adding C# region type syntax code folding soon

GameMaker Studio 2 Code Folding Code folding is a pretty simple concept: Condense multiple lines of code into one line that can be expanded again when needed; it keeps large code files neat and clean while allowing a developer to still read over the general logic flow. How you implement code folding, on the other […] More

by Hikati Games August 21, 2017, 5:00 am
in Games

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! firms up release date to September 13th

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! Launch Delayed To September 13th Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 might be the most anticipated chef game in the history of food preparation games to date and the decision David Galindo made to delay the release came with a heavy heart as seen in this twitter post: I am so so sorry […] More

by Hikati Games August 18, 2017, 3:11 am
in Development, Examples, Technical, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials

[Tutorial] HTML5 games and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

GameMakerBlog Tutorials HTML5 Games and Cross-Site Scripting If you have ever looked up any of the http_* methods in the Gamemaker: Studio documentation you have surely seen the following warning about cross domain issues: “NOTE: You should be aware that due to XSS protection in browsers, requests to and attempts to load resources from across […] More

by Hikati Games August 15, 2017, 5:47 am
in Blog News, Community, Community Links, Development, Indie Insight

Feedspot puts GameMaker Blog in top 50 Game Development Blogs

Feedspot Game Development Blog Awards If anyone has not read the great compilation list put out by Feedspot already; then I would fully recommend giving it a read now at Game Development Blogs as there is a wealth of information pertaining to game development blogs that some people might not have known existed. Of course, we […] More

by Hikati Games August 11, 2017, 7:42 pm

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