Congratulations to all the members who took part and entered their finished game in 72 hours. It took over a week for votes to come in and we now have the winners below!

1st place: Carmageddon by Robert3DG+

http://www.virtualrealmsgames.com/stuff/Carmageddon_JamRelease.zip

Taking place in a futuristic city, the city police have recently got annoyed with how you jaywalk, take candy from babies and act like a jerk. So they've sent out hundreds of military grade hover drones after your ass! Dodge them for as long as you can and use the space bar to fire your machine gun! It may be weak, but the bullets are infinite. Radical!We need a price check... on chumps!

2nd place: Sophia's Spirits by IceMetalPunk and TheUltimate

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11662651/FallJam/Sophia%27s%20Spirits%20v0.8.zip  

3rd place: PolyGravity by YellowAfterLife

http://solidfiles.com/d/c0906/

This game has 'vector' graphics and is based on dynamically changing gravity. This law of physics changes as you move around and interact with objects, providing challenges. A puzzle game with quirky backgrounds and ambient musice creating atmospheric levels, a fun and challenging 360 platformer.

Honorable mentions;

4th place: Zombie Zoo Murder Case by Yal

http://www.box.net/shared/8kodvfeqpkvjrt5jj04y

5th place (Joint): The Deep Sky by TrueValhalla, Gaming 101 by makerofthegames

http://www.howtomakeanmmorpg.com/download-the-deep-sky.html

Nocturne and Zeddidragon deserve special credit due to their invaluable help in the organisation of this Jam. Thank you chaps, keep up the sterling work!

There was some amazing entries this time around, we recommend you have a look and play. For the list of the full 59 games entered please click here - http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=523036

★☆★ON SALE NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! ★☆★

Have you played the beautiful neon puzzler Reflexions yet? No..?! Well here’s the perfect excuse to grab it now..

This Thursday saw YoYo’s recent game – Reflexions - on promotion!

With its simple controls and beautifully styled HD visuals, Reflexions is the perfect distraction at work, home or anywhere you happen to have a couple of minutes to sit down, relax and unwind your mind.

Reflexions is ON SALE for just $0.99 between Thursday 10^th November til after Thanksgiving on 25^th November only. Normally retailing at £1.49 on Android and $1.99 on iTunes, this is the perfect time to grab this amazingly beautiful game.

Android - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.yoyogames.droidreflexion

iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reflexions/id458343795?ls=1&mt=8

“The sharp visuals combine with the gentle chimes and shuffling beats distract you” Pocketgamer 

“Crisp and tight neon lines, evoking the likes of TRON, sing on retina screens” Square-Go.com 

“Hidden gem: Reflexions bringing some retro gaming love” Droidgamers.com

Community News 

The GameMaker Community Jam has been better than ever with increasing game entries and voting will end today, Friday 11^th.  We will announce the winners once voting has ended and reveal the gamers choice next week.  It’s not too late though if you want to play and cast your vote, pop along to http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=523036&st=0&p=3853562&#entry3853562

YoYo Games wish to give a big up to indie developer Curve Studios who released ‘Stealth B*st*rd’ a week ago. A 2D platformer filled with traps that requires the player to creep about, ducking behind cover and hiding in the shadows and being sneaky aka Super Meat Boy meets Metal Gear Solid! Not only is this a brilliantly fun game to play, it’s completely free!

Curve Studios, famous for developing ‘Explodemon!’ & ‘Fluidity’ games, developed ‘Stealth’ using GameMaker. Designer Jonathan Biddle says “I’ve been using it (GameMaker) for nearly seven years and really enjoy it. It’s very quick and flexible, and it’s surprising what it’s actually capable of.”

For those that enjoy being horribly dismembered through 28 levels we suggest you give it a go... http://www.stealthbastard.com/

HTML5 News

News this week comes from Adobe halting development on Flash Player for mobile browsers. This is good news for those with GameMaker:HTML5!

We believe the next defining technology for both social and mobile platforms to be HTML5. We saw an ideal opportunity to bring the ease of development GameMaker delivers, into the world of HTML5. GameMaker gives an incredibly rapid development cycle, far quicker than what has traditionally been used for games, and one which YoYo Games itself has used time and again to produce iOS and Android hits. We therefore spent some time working out if the platform would be suitable for HTML5, and once we got some of our games running, it became apparent that it would not only work, but prove to be an incredibly powerful platform to use.

The favour towards HTML5 as the only platform for all future social and mobile game development has steered our business focus on releasing GameMaker:HTML5 and soon to launch, GameMaker Studio Edition.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5/19226

YoYo News

We have a new sign up on the homepage of the website for those who are interested to be the first to receive news and advance information on all things GameMaker. If you have already signed up on our previous HTML5 news you are already on this mailing list and do NOT need to sign up again. We have an exciting promotion coming later with one of our recent game releases. We will keep you posted though so you don’t miss out!

We have had reports from customers that there is an issue where small minorities of purchases are not successful. Paypal has not completed the purchase or is preventing it going through. If you have a Paypal reference then please send to the helpdesk https://yoyogames.mojohelpdesk.com  so we can check.  To combat this recent disruption we are introducing new methods in the very near future so hopefully it will resolve this by providing alternative methods of payment. I’m sure this will be a welcome addition to those who have experienced Paypal difficulties in the past. 

GameMaker News

Apple have just changed the Mac App Store acceptance rules. Any applications need to support a new Sandboxing feature that requires special intervention (if you do not used the latest Xcode). Fortunately GameMaker for Mac apps DO support it J

Making life easier and to be able to get your GameMaker work onto the App store is the App Composer 1.3! App Composer is a little tool that lets you package Mac Applications for the App Store with little hassle. This features Sandboxing, improved signing that targets GameMaker for Mac (signs the yoyosound and SDL frameworks) and other extras. Grab this for free here - http://www.vetragames.com/software/

We have a couple of new games to be released in early November through YoYo Games. The latest titles have been in production for a while and we have been busy preparing these for the ever expanding, different platforms we now publish on. Look out for these exciting announcements very soon!

There will be a small new update to GameMaker Standard this week and not far behind that will be another for GameMaker:HTML5.

GameMaker Studio is in the works, we do not have a release date YET but we will announce this here when we do. For those with GameMaker:HTML5, you will be to upgrade to this easily at a discounted rate. We do not have full information on this yet so hold off on asking, we WILL inform everyone when we know what this will be. 

Community

The fourth GMC weekend Jam is now over! See the entries here - http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=522487 Winners are still to be announced later this week. Well done to all those who entered, we’ll show the work of the winner when judging has finished.

Issue 2 of IndieGo is out now, full with GameMaker news, Reflexion review, interviews and competitions.

Issue #2

Printed - £2.80

Digital – FREE

Want to get involved? If you have a new game coming out and would like to write a piece on it or if you write a review for an indie game, please send an email to apply.indiego@gmail.com with some information about the game and IndieGo will be in touch!

Another worthy mention is Indie(function) are a development media team who provide not only an online magazine but are broadcasting indie(radio) every Saturday providing news, games and interviews! To subscribe and listen, sign up here http://www.indieFunction.com/

We'd like to wish everyone a Happy Halloween and to leave you with a new spooky demo of 'GraveMaker' in GameMaker:HTML5 to enjoy!

The YY Team 

The 4^th GameMaker Community Jam

The GMC are hosting a Halloween event running for 72 hours in another competitive game jam.  The last 3 Jams have been very successful with a lot of high quality games being produced and more importantly, having lots of fun doing so!

The Challenge:

This is a community event organized by to encourage experimenting with GameMaker and create something that will be interesting or entertaining within 72 hours.

When:

00.01  GMT Saturday 29^th October

23.59  GMT Monday 31^st October

Official Prizes:

1^st place – GameMaker coupon for GameMaker:HTML5 (worth $99 RRP), a  YoYo T-shirt and the infamous (and now very scarce) official YoYo! You will also qualify for a special graphic/banner, bragging rights and various community contributed prizes as outlined in the topic for 2nd and 3rd. 

Anyone can enter, as long as you are a GMC member (sign up is very easy) and they will help you pair with others if you are looking for a teammate. Full details of the Jam can be found here - http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=522487

Good Luck, we eagerly look forward to seeing the results considering the high bar set in the last Jam!