GameMaker-TV is doing alot!

Danny has released the new skin for http://gamemaker-tv.com and has also finally released:

GMTV Episode 4

The episode shows many new features that Danny and his staff can accomplish. The episode is finally living up to the legend of X-Play(G4TV).

In the episode Danny has

GM News and Reviews

If you still do not want to see the episode

Game Maker-TV VS. GMHV

vs GMHV

Hopefully you all have heard of the Game Maker TV. The Game Maker TV is ran, edited, produced, and recorded by Danny(a GMC Member). The GMTV has once the only game maker video channel. The GMTV won the contest against the GMHV(Game Maker Helper Videos) for quality of game maker related videos.

The GMHV had 7 videos. The GMHV was abandoned due to the lack of support.

The link to the youtube channel for the GMHV is:

http://youtube.com/user/gamemakers

So far Game Maker-TV has 3 videos. The site is currently under construction.

The link to the GMTV is: http://gamemaker-tv.com/

I have taken the time out to get an interview with the creator of GMTV

A 3d MMORPG has arrived on the GMC!

Stop the presses!

A 3d mmorpg has arrived on the GMC. The game is made by Andreas_oj, a new gmc member, but long time game maker user. The mmorpg has been named Adventure road. The link to the thread is here.

IT gets better. I am now helping him make the 3d mmorpg.

The Results to the YoYoGames 2nd Competition

“And the winners of the YoYoGames 2nd competition is………”

After long months of deliberations and waiting for the winners of the YoYogames 2nd Competition the results have been released. Yesterday on Tuesday the results were finally announced. Previously Mark has said the results were already known and were expected for release on Monday. Monday flew past and everyone just believed the results would never come.

Within the next 24 hours many gm users began complaining about yoyogames.com not working. The clue was cast that the winners were being announced and the site was under maintenence. The speculation and rumors turned out to be true.

The 1st prize winner won : $1000
The 2nd prize winner won: $500
The 3rd prize winner won $250

Now that we announced the prizes the winners were:

Gm 8(C++)Beta!

According to the glog at yoyogames a beta for gm on the c++ runner is expected for beta release soon.
The GLOG post is here:
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=80

Also

A Basic Guide to Hacking – Intro

I will be starting a series of tutorials on hacking, starting with the basics. These tutorials will use Ubuntu Linux and GCC, though you shouldn’t have too much trouble just using GCC on Windows. You will also use GDB, but I believe this comes packaged with GCC (maybe not, sorry).

If you really like these tutorials, I would suggest buying the book Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, which is where I learned these techniques. I may be able to upload an ISO of Ubuntu with the GCC tools installed later, but for now I suggest downloading Ubuntu 7.04 and installing GCC and GDB yourself. If you don’t want to, you should be able to find a way to do this all in Windows, I’m just using Linux because I learned in Linux, and Linux is free, so everyone has access to it.

What you will need for this guide is:

A computer with access to GCC for compiling C and debugging it to look at the ASM.

Free time

Recommendations:

Ubuntu Linux with GCC and GDB installed

An x86 type of processor (this is pretty generic for most home computers, though some have a 64-bit instead)

Some prior knowledge of C or ASM (thought I will start with the basics)

So without further ado, I will begin with the intro to what you will learn.

Many people see “hackers” as bad people that want to steal your identity or break your computer. Maybe they wanna give you viruses then make you pay to remove them, but the truth is those people are only a small group of the hackers. Hackers are people that find ways around problems to get things done in the most efficient way they can. Hackers will look deep down in to the source code of a program and say to themselves, hey, that guy put < 10 when it should’ve been <= 10… how can I use that to my advantage? But a hacker doesn’t use this knowledge for evil, a good hacker will take that error and make an exploit to maybe add an extra capability to a program that wasn’t there before, or something of the sort. The methods I will teach you will be the basics to get you started, what you do with them is your decision. Maybe you’ll decide to hack the U.S. government because you’ll notice that one of their web servers is running IIS and you can hack into it, or maybe you’ll hack someone’s games to tell them how to fix it. Or maybe you’ll hack Windows Live Messenger to remove the ads from the main window, or to find a way to make it so when you start a conversation, more money is donated to charity than normally.

Whatever you do with this information, just make sure to have fun with it.

I’ll try to post the first guide in the next few days. It will include the very basics of C programming, along with some very very basic ASM debugging to show you what you’re getting into. It may look complicated at first, but you should be able to get the hang of it rather quickly.

Have fun ^_^

Twas the Night – Game Review

Its May 26. Its about 5 months after Christmas. Why is this game being reviewed at a time like this? Well because this is information we should not hog.

The blog did not exist back then. Twas the Night was an entry in the 1st yoyogames competition. The game has certainly came from a long way.

The Game did come out late you know.Would the wait have been worth it?Look at all the screenshots and you tell me!

“Game Menu”

The game has awesome graphics and music! The Title screen has lovely artwork and it does not stop there.All through the game it feels as the spriters, composers, and modelers were working overtime to deliver this game to the highest

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YoYoGames Competition 2: Ancient Civilization

YoYoGames is in the process of naming the winner to the 2nd YoyoGames Competition.

The competition is already over however the judging and the actual competition is still under way. Many great games has been entered into the competition for a chance to win $1000!

External loading made easy

Did you all know that external loading can save you time on loading

before the game starts?External loading rules.

The Pros to External loading is:

*Faster loading times

*Smaller .exe file size

*Less ram usage

The Cons for External loading is

Ark 22 is an GM action rpg that needs more attention

Many action rpgs have not been seen on the gmc or yoyogames. The reason if that it requires long hours of programming, story writing, and a community development. However there is stilll some games that have been released on the gmc that were in fact an action rpg. Ark is more than a rare action rpg that gm users can play, but one of the best ones. The rpg has an engaging storyline.

The game lasts quite some time. Ark22introduces many engines that have not been seen in many independent game developers. The inventory and save system is lovely and it works perfectly.

The weapons gained and earned has given the game more points for gameplay.