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    Free Game Development Books

    Today I received two free game development books by courier, “Beginning 3D Game Programming” and “Agile Software Development“. The books were sent to me as part of my involvement with the MarkUp magazine, where a future issue will contain reviews I have written on them. (I guess I have to read the books first 😛 […] More

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    The importance of Mirrors

    GMKing is down. Who didn’t pay the server bills? On a more positive note I guess this maybe because the bandwidth limit has been exceeded. This is probably the most likely cause since for the past four months MarkUp’s readership has increased by an average of 249% per month. Even so, this highlights the importance […] More

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    A quality read… MarkUp or GMTech?

    I noticed a few days back that one of the increasingly-at-each-others-throats magazines dedicated to GameMaker was billing itself as “A quality read” following the creation of a new WordPress site which looks suspiciously similar to the earlier website redesign of their rival. Regardless of quality or otherwise, I know that the readership of this blog […] More

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    MarkUp 6 5 4 3 2 oh arhhh….

    The MarkUp 6 drafts were made available to those who contribute to the magazine at GMKing around 20 days ago, for the release which normally takes place in the first couple of days of the month. Not so for August it seems. Half way through the month and no sign of the issue’s release yet. […] More

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    Ad results

    It seems that GameMakerBlog should be renaming MarkUpBlog, following the two previous posts about the magazine I will again mention it. In particular I am going to be looking at the results so far from my graphical ad for the Game Maker Affiliation Service. An ad is offered by MarkUp to people who contribute content […] More

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    GameMaker Magazine: MarkUp Issue 5

    Ahoy there! After a couple of days delay the fifth issue of MarkUp, the only GameMaker magazine to be endorsed by YoYoGames, has been released. No doubt you’ll have already seen it on the GMC, Grego’s blog or elsewhere so I won’t copy and paste the contents list as a space-filler. You should read it […] More

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    Look what came through my door

    A print version of the MarkUp Game Maker magazine. Above: Cover Below: Double page spread, page 17 (on the right) featuring my review of Forted. Oh alright, not really. It didn’t come through my door, but it does exist. A source tells me that GMKing are, or were, investigating producing a printed version of MarkUp. […] More

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    Introducing the Official Magazine of YoYoGames

    It may not be the official magazine of YYG, but it’s officialy endorsed by them,… It’s MarkUp. And it’s official. The moment has finally come. And it was a long time coming,… Congratulations to Eyas, Robin and everyone else at GMKing for all their hard work. Some stats*: Number of hints dropped in the past […] More

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    MarkUp: Effective screenshots

    You may feel that taking a screenshot is easy, and indeed it is, but a lot of the screenshots I see promoting games at the GMC and on sites devoted to gamemaker games fail to follow even the simplest of rules to make your screenshot effective. There are a number of factors determining the effectiveness […] More

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    MarkUp Issue 4 – A review

    As I mentioned a few days ago the fourth issue of MarkUp has now been released. I know many of you will already have downloaded it. At 24 pages it is the largest edition to date and included a review of the commercial game Heroes of Might and Magic V (not made in gamemaker). I […] More

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    Issue 3 of MarkUp released

    Issue 3 of the MarkUp magazine has been released today. Details about the magazine and the contents of the May eddition are avalible on the MarkUp website, so my advice to you is go there and download the mag. My article on the importance of game manuals is on page 19. Enjoy 😉 Download: High […] More

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    Gamemaker Magazines

    Yesterday I submitted my first article to GMking’s MarkUp magazine. Since returning to the gamemaker community this month I have taken a look at the magazines on offer for the community. When I was last using gamemaker Morpheous’s GMData magazine had published its fourth issue, however the fifth issue was never made. The only magazines […] More

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