by BRET HUDSON
GAME MAKER COMMUNITY — The GMC Jam #8 theme was just announced, revealing it as "Disaster", along with the handicap of "Cannot use text". Have fun working with this theme, as well as trying not use any text in your game! Post in the GMC topic to enter your game in and win prizes.
by BRET HUDSON
YOYO GAMES — The Steam Software Store launched recently, adding GameMaker: Studio as one of its first programs available for download. The Steam version of GameMaker: Studio is the same as the version you can get via YoYo Games, however, you are able to save your work to your Steam Cloud storage space as well as be a part of the "Steam Workshop". The Steam Workshop is an online game portal designed for user-created games using the program. "GameMaker: Studio takes advantage of Steamworks features like easy installation, automatic updating and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so files can travel with you." To read more on what Valve's Mark Richardson and YoYo Games' Sandy Duncan had to say about this, check out the YoYo Games News article. To purchase the program, either search for it via the Steam program or check it out on theSteam website.
by MATT CHELEN
GAME MAKER COMMUNITY — Next Friday, October 26th, 2012, will see the beginning of the Game Maker Community's eighth GMC Jam.
The theme has only barely been revealed as of yet, with the letter board currently consisting of nine spaces, the second of which is an "i", and the seventh of which is an "e".
There is quite a bit of speculation, and a bit of disappointment brought on by said speculation, that the theme will be "discovery." However, we will only know for sure once we get closer to the Jam's starting date.
by MATT CHELEN
YOYO GAMES — YoYo Games has just recently announced that everyone who currently owns Game Maker Studio Standard or Professional editions has access to a new export module made for Windows 8 Metro applications.
The new export will require users to download and install both Microsoft's .Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio to build for it.
