Platy

My final and best game. You are a cute little character called platy, making your way through this radically awesome platform game. Please leave any comments, and criticism you have about this game in the comments. Download

People Of Peppy

Your mission: collect all of the keys without touching the skulls. Warning! I made the game a bit too difficult. You do however have the ability to esc back to the main menu and play any of the levels in whatever order you desire. Download

U B Da Ball

Like breakout, but you are the one controlling the ball! Download

GM8.1: Unknown Amount of Arguments Works. Scripts and DLL’s Rejoice

From Mike: I’ve been thinking hard about the script argument issue when used with external DLLs, and realise it wasn’t a good idea to swap “cold turkey”. While we are certainly heading there, we need to phase it over time so that external DLL’s can be updated/rewritten to work inline with the new method. So […]

GameMaker 8.1 Arrives

Game Maker 8.1 has arrived. There are lots of new features in GameMaker 8.1; however, there have been some changes that could be problematic for some games. If this is the case you should still upgrade as the upgrade doesn’t replace GM8.0 allowing you to use GM8.0 after you upgrade.

Glog Stats

YoYo Games has had 145,684 spam comments on their Glog. Here are some other stats about their glog.

2D Game Making Survey Results

Redchu and theweirdn8 conducted a Survey of 200 Game Maker users. Many questions were useless. Here are some of the results I found most interesting.

Pointed Competition

Pointed has a competition for with the theme achievement. Basically that means anything. If you want to beef up an old game of yours or start a new one the details for the competition are here. The prizes are as follows:

Updates and Downdates

YoYo Games have set up set up three unfinished blogger sites. First Game Maker Facebook Game GM Game can post Facebook Statuses Game Maker Gazzete Returns

YoYo Game Store soon opening, No Really.

Please note: The Game Store will be closed for a number of hours on Friday 1st April (no really) from 2.30pm GMT onwards, this is to allow us to test a few things out. The Store will resume as normal the next day. Most likely their testing out their game submission process. Of course YoYo Games […]