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.
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 […]
GM8.1 threw out .exe’s Edit: restrictions on the creation of .exe’s with the lite version of GameMaker 8.1 have changed. There is now a watermark on your game, and a splash screen that appears when you leave a game. In GameMaker 8.1 Lite .exe’s will only be able to be used for ten minutes, however one can easily have […]
GMAV–Game Maker Awesome Version until June 1st 2011, you will still be able to get Game Maker Standard, 8.1 for just $25 ! YoYo Game’s even bolded it. There going to quit calling it GM Pro. This only means on thing: they plan on releasing a bigger badder GMAV(Game Maker Awesome Version)
Game Maker 8.1 Features GameMaker 8.1 is epic. Many sweet features like the ability to zoom in the room editor have been introduced. Still no ability to export to other platforms. The following features are now available: No more Softwrap! Let’s hope we don’t see a big increase in pirating. Changed room editor RIGHT mouse click priorities. Menu for […]