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First Look At New YoYo Games Logo

CEO Sandy Duncan has offered a first look at the brand new company logo for YoYo Games, the creators of the GameMaker Studio game development engine. The new logo features a modern, minimalistic, and professional design. A subtle abstraction integrates the characters “YY” to form the shape of a yoyo. The logo is entirely gray-scale, […] More

by Mark Smith May 2, 2013, 4:29 pm
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Exclusive: Interview With The GameMaker Community Hacker

Just over a month ago, Game Maker Blog reported that the popular GameMaker Community forums had been hacked. YoYo Games, the company who own the GameMaker program and operate the board, estimated that between 5000-8000 user accounts had been compromised by a password logging script. They were wrong. Game Maker Blog has hosted an exclusive […] More

by Mark Smith April 22, 2013, 6:30 pm
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Who Owns YoYo Games?

Ever wondered exactly who owns YoYo Games? According to reports filed annually over the last several years, Mark Overmars doesn’t personally own any shares! Mark Overmars, the creator of the original GameMaker, was not directly cited as being a shareholder, however The GameMaker Company (which Overmars owns) appears to hold 525,000 shares (23.86%). YoYo Games […] More

by Mark Smith April 8, 2013, 7:47 am
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Comment: Why the Linux Port Will Flop

During early December we saw a surprising image of what appeared to be a port of Game Maker to Linux. Yet the excitement YoYo may have wanted to build, using the screenshot of the program running on a Fedora distribution, may not be manifesting itself as strongly as they had hoped. I for one saw […] More

by Mark Smith December 4, 2011, 4:23 pm
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Comment: YoYo Abandoning Game Maker Roots?

Game Maker is changing rapidly. Gone are the days of ‘Lite’ and ‘Pro’. For the veterans of Game Maker, the nostalgic days where users would refer to the paid version as ‘full’ and when Softwrap hadn’t yet dipped its troublesome hand into community, are a world away. Future Game Maker users will be given more […] More

by Mark Smith September 8, 2011, 8:52 pm
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Softwrap used “mostly” for Payment Options

“Once it’s cracked, it’s cracked. You can’t keep trying to stop them. We use DRM mostly to give payment options…[1]” – YoYo Games CEO. If you want to find a Game Maker 8 Pro crack online you can, it really isn’t hard so I amazed at the number of people that end up here looking […] More

by Mark Smith March 23, 2010, 9:03 pm
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YoYo Games Improves Site Performance

Sandy announced that the YoYo Games website performance will be improved with both software and hardware upgrades. Plans are currently in place to have the sites two main servers upgraded later this week. It has been over a year since the first upgrades however these new changes will include a memory upgrade on both of […] More

by Mark Smith October 13, 2009, 7:14 pm
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GameMaker Tech 14: YoYo Games Exclusive + Win GameMaker 7 Pro

It’s here – the first magazine to have a YoYo Games exclusive – and it took more than year and a half after they appeared on the scene for anyone to do one. Below is an outline of some of the content, but I expect most people will want to go straight to page 20. […] More

by Mark Smith December 5, 2008, 4:23 pm
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25,000 Games now Online at YoYo

Earlier today YoYo Games passed the 25,000 games threshold as maze game Treasure Remix became the 25,001st GameMaker application to be uploaded to the site. The Games on YoYo have collectively been played more than 5,100,000 times, an average of over 200 plays per game. However the distribution of plays per game is far from […] More

by Mark Smith November 3, 2008, 12:16 pm
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YYG/GMPedia wiki merge now official

YoYo Games have announced that the rumoured merge between their wiki and GMPedia, a community project by GMking is now official. Earlier, the GMking blog confirmed the merge. All 600 articles from the original GMpedia wiki will be migrated onto the YoYo Games wiki. This also includes articles not related to Game Maker, but computer […] More

by Mark Smith October 11, 2008, 7:12 am
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YYG results by Thursday

Sandy Duncan has written on the YoYo Games blog that the results of YoYo Games’ competition will be announced “NO LATER than 5 pm UK time on Thursday”. The co-operation themed competition was YoYo’s third and had attracted over 275 entries. The winner will receive $1000, with a second-place prize of $500 and $250 for […] More

by Mark Smith September 30, 2008, 4:21 pm
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YoYo Games Save The Planet Competition

YoYo Games announced there 4th competition entitled ‘The YoYo Games: Save The Planet Competition’ which reminds me of the comic that was featured GM Weekly issue 3. This competition features the same rules and prizes that were in all the other YoYo competitions (thats a shocker) , or to quote YoYo directly: “Same prizes, same […] More

by Mark Smith September 16, 2008, 3:35 pm

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