GM Tech Magazine :: Issue Sixteen

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We have continued with thesame landscape layout that waspositively received, however wedid make a few tweaks to it inorder to make it just that little bitbetter. We are always happy toreact to any comments andsuggestions that you have, so just email them in.It has become apparent that weseem to regularly switchbetween monthly and bi-monthlyreleases, so expect an issueevery couple of months. Just overtwo months after issue 15, wehave some great content thatyou should be interested in, suchas a 5 page interview with KelleSantiago and John Edwards from'thatgamecompany' on page 25.An article on how Cut Scenes canimprove your games, a featureon GM

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Editors

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MnemonicPunk Mike AlfusDavid McClureRhysAndrews

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Special Thanks

Philip GambleKelle Santiago John EdwardsFredFredrickson (MartinCrownover)

Game Maker Blog 500th Blog

In the two years since its launch in April2007 Game Maker Blog has regularly beenupdated with news on anything from GMpublications to interesting GMC topics. It hasestablished itself at the heart of the GameMaker world. Now the Game Maker news sitehas made its 500th blog post. Phil Gambleowns and operates the site and hopes toensure Game Maker Blog remains thenumber one source of Game Maker news andtopical articles over the next few years.

Game Maker 8 Progress

A couple of months ago Mark Overmarsblogged asking members to contact him if they were interested in creating free-to-usesprites for distribution with Game Maker 8.Mark received over 25 applications and hasnow made a decision on which spriters' workhe will use. YoYo also plan to also include anew collection of sound effects with GameMaker 8.0 so if you are good at making yourown original sound effects visit the Glog andsubmit them.

Game Maker Community Game

Not many community games that have beenstarted have lasted for longer than a week.However it appears that a recently launchedproject may well be an exception, the GMCGhas its own designated section of the forumand work has been in full swing. Just over amonth after it came to life voting has beentaking place and a decision has been madeon the main plot line for the game.Programming of the game looks set to cometo life in the next few months.

GMTV and GMVision

Following a brief link up with GMKing Dannyand the rest of the GMTV team made adecision to publish smaller shows rather thanfull feature episodes. After releasing five full-length episodes since 2007 the team hopethat this switch to smaller features will leadto more frequent releases and keepcommunity interest high – so far, it doesn'tappear to be going too well. This week alsosaw the launch of a rival Game Maker videoshow. GMVision's first episode included newsand interview and several game reviews.

Join GMTech Magazine

We have made quite a few changes toGMTech over the last few months and we arealways looking to improve the magazinefurther and continue to impress our readers.In order to do this we are looking for writers,reviewers and issue checkers to join theteam and help work on the issues. You canget full details about getting involved byvisiting the GMTech forum.

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