YoYo Games announces that GameMaker: Studio, its powerful cross-platform games creation environment now supports publishing to Linux with today’s general availability of its Ubuntu Export. With GameMaker: Studio’s Ubuntu Export, developers can export their newly-created and pre-existing games as an Ubuntu Software Center-ready application from a single code base and at the touch of a button.

“This is the first time GameMaker has supported Linux publishing and it couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Sandy Duncan, chief executive officer at YoYo Games. “The Ubuntu Software Center provides a new marketplace to distribute and monetize games, a substantial opportunity for our development community.”

GameMaker: Studio has been developed with usability and efficiency at its core, allowing developers to create games in a single code base and then export and publish them to run natively across an unprecedented number of distribution platforms including: the Amazon App Store, Chrome, Facebook, Google Play, iTunes, the App Store, the Mac App Store, Steam, the Windows Store, the Windows Phone Store and the Ubuntu Software Center.

GameMaker: Studio combines a powerful, yet simple to use drag-and-drop integrated development environment with a built-in games-oriented scripting language that considerably increases development productivity. GameMaker: Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally.

“As the third most popular desktop operating system Ubuntu reaches 20 million users around the globe,” said David Pitkin, Director of Consumer Software at Canonical. “With GameMaker: Studio, it couldn’t be easier to publish games to the Ubuntu Software Center and take advantage of the opportunity to reach a new audience. We can’t wait for all of the awesome GameMaker: Studio games to arrive for Ubuntu in the coming weeks and months.”

GameMaker: Studio Ubuntu Export can be purchased at www.yoyogames.com and is coming soon to Steam’s Software Store via www.steampowered.com for $99 U.S.

The Ubuntu Export is free for existing and future purchasers of GameMaker: Studio MASTER COLLECTION. GameMaker: Studio PROFESSIONAL and the Ubuntu Export module are required for publishing to the Ubuntu Software Center. For more information about GameMaker: Studio Ubuntu Export, please visit www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/studio.

The team from YoYo Games will be at GDC 2013 in San Francisco! If you're attending this year's show, please stop by the exhibition at Moscone South from Wednesday, March 27 to Friday, March 29. We'll be waiting in booth #335 to tell you all about the latest GameMaker: Studio developments! 

Publish your app to the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store between now and February 28, 2013 to qualify for the following rewards:

• Every entrant recieves a store registration reimbursement* AND a FREE copy of Halo 4 for Xbox 360!
• A chance to win one of 12 Xbox 360 consoles with Kinect. The more apps you enter, the more chances you'll have to win.
• The Grand Prize: Three devs with the best apps will win an ultimate backstage pass to Microsoft Studios and spend the day with the Windows 8 Games Studios team—makers of Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Xbox-enabled games!
• Additional benefit for YoYo Games customers: Five Apps Will be Chosen by Microsoft and Yo-Yo Games to be highlighted on the 'Hot Apps, Cool Dev' site.

We can help you launch your app. Either create a new app that you have been building or contemplating for some time, or simply convert an existing app that you built for IOS and/or Android platforms. Here are a resource page and interactive tutorial that can help guide you through the process.

Who is eligible?

Below is a summary. Read the full T&Cs for all the details.

You are eligible to enter this contest if you meet the following requirements at time entry:

• You are a student, hobbyist, or professional developer in the field of software technology; and
• You are a legal resident of the 50 United States and District of Columbia 18 years of age or older;
• While there is no limit to the number of apps you can submit in this promotion, each app you submit to a single platform must be substantially unique and different. If you publish one (1) specific app on both platforms, you will receive two (2) entries.

Judging Criteria for the Ultimate Experience.

• 25% - Does the app include platform specific features: Live Tiles, Snap View, Share, and Search?
• 25% - Does the app have market potential given current application trends?
• 25% - Is the app innovative and original?
• 25% - Does the app conform to the Windows Experience and UI guidelines?

http://www.yoyogames.com/promotions/ultimate_experience

*Store Registration Reimbursement Terms: Current Windows Store and Windows Phone Store subscribers, members of DreamSpark, BizSpark, or MSDN are not eligible. Reimbursement will be awarded in the form of a Gift Card ($49 for Windows Store or $99 for Windows Phone Store). Limit one (1) reimbursement per Store per person. For full details, eligibility, and entry deadlines, see Official Rules. Participation is US Only.

GameMaker: Studio™ MIPS™ Edition Includes Features and Functionalities of GameMaker: Studio™ Professional 

INTERNATIONAL CES, LAS VEGAS, Nev. – January 4, 2013 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, networking, mobile and embedded applications, and YoYo Games, the creator of GameMaker: Studio™, announced the release of fast and easy game development software for MIPS-Based™ products such as tablets and other devices. GameMaker: Studio™ MIPS™ Edition, created by YoYo Games exclusively for MIPS-Based devices, is now available on the YoYo Games website free-of-charge.

GameMaker: Studio MIPS Edition enables game developers to quickly and easily create games for MIPS-Based devices and then seamlessly submit them for publishing to multiple app stores. It includes the same functionalities as the GameMaker: Studio Professional version plus the Android export capability—with the exception that it publishes games exclusively for Android devices based on the MIPS® architecture.

GameMaker: Studio MIPS Edition features an integrated development environment complete with fonts, sounds, images, music and more. It also features GameMaker Language, a powerful scripting language that lets developers control details such as pathfinding, physics, object interaction, particles, data structures, social networking, payment features and a comprehensive source control scheme to facilitate game creation within teams.

GameMaker: Studio is a leading 2D development suite for game developers producing well-known games including They Need to Be Fed, Froad, and Karoshi, which was named Pocket Gamer’s 2012 Android Game of the Year. With the new MIPS Edition, developers of existing GameMaker games can quickly bring their games to MIPS-Based devices.

According to Gideon Intrater, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies, “We are delighted to offer game developers the opportunity to create games for MIPS-Based devices at no charge. Through our collaboration with YoYo Games, game developers and students will gain access to free development software, and owners of MIPS-Based mobile devices can anticipate many new games and apps—continuing to broaden the mobile ecosystem around the MIPS architecture.”

“We have always believed in the importance of the MIPS architecture and are pleased to work with MIPS to further proliferate our popular GameMaker: Studio platform,” said Sandy Duncan, chief executive officer at YoYo Games. “With their affordable price points, MIPS-Based tablets can reach a broad range of consumers, creating a really compelling opportunity for game developers. Seasoned and novice game developers can download GameMaker: Studio™ MIPS Edition for free and experience the ease and power of GameMaker: Studio.”

Availability
Developers can visit http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/studio to download the free software and immediately begin creating games for MIPS-Based devices.

Demonstration at International CES
At CES, MIPS and YoYo will demonstrate how to develop games for a MIPS-Based tablet using GameMaker: Studio. To schedule a demonstration during CES, contact info@mips.com.

To visit the MIPS Technologies Media Center for CES, visit http://www.mips.com/news-events/CES2013.

About YoYo Games
YoYo Games is a top publisher of mobile, social and web-based games and the creator of GameMaker: Studio, a fast and easy to use cross-platform games development technology. YoYo Games publishes titles created with GameMaker: Studio including hits “They Need to be Fed,” “Simply Solitaire HD” and Pocket Gamer’s 2012 Android Game of the Year “Karoshi.” Privately-held YoYo Games was founded in 2007 by games industry visionaries to incubate and showcase the next generation of games development talent and devices. GameMaker has been downloaded more than 10 million times, hosts a community of a half a million registered users and is deployed in more than 5,000 schools and universities worldwide. For more information, visit www.yoyogames.com.

About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS) is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, networking, mobile and embedded applications. The MIPS architecture powers some of the world’s most popular products. Our technology is broadly used in products such as digital televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, broadband customer premises equipment (CPE), WiFi access points and routers, networking infrastructure and portable/mobile communications and entertainment products. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, contact (408) 530-5000 or visit www.mips.com.

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MIPS and MIPS-Based are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and other countries of MIPS Technologies, Inc.  Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions. All other trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.

The YoYo Games Winter Sale is on!

From now until January 4, enjoy 50 percent off of GameMaker: Studio Professional, Standard and HTML5, Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8 exports modules. GameMaker: Studio Master Collection (Professional + all exports) is 25 percent off. Take advantage of this one-of-a-kind offer before it’s too late!

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Happy Holidays from YoYo Games!