All the common news sources along with four gizmos and gadgets useful in gathering news.
Google Reader Watcher
Google Reader is a storage shed for RSS feeds. When one of these RSS feeds are changed, Google Reader Watcher will notify.
Update Scanner
A personal servant. This one checks a list of websites and highlights website changes. Unchanged websites are not opened.
Twitter Explorer
Smashes Twitter onto your desktop. (require Windows 7)
Boxcar
Pushes notifications through an iOS device when a RSS feed is changed.
They can’t talk, but these gadgets are my best friends when it comes to gathering news. They all work in the background doing their duty. I just have to do mine.
News sources
Where your info comes from.
- Obviously YoYo Games Glog, and the Game Maker Blog.
- The community topic on the GMC is the best place to gather unofficial news.
- Twitter can often be handy, but there’s a lot of junk in there.
- Mike Daily’s blog, he releases a lot of technical details about YoYo Games
- indiegames.com will often point to interesting articles about game design.
The following sources get most of their info from the above sources.
- Game Maker Gazette
- Gblog
- Various Game Maker Magazines(what’s happened to them all, they seem to have gone extinct)
I have a bunch of minor sources, like some interesting MMO games that are being developed with Game Maker, but I won’t list them here. Now if only the rest of the world were this transparent in the way they did things.