Comments on: Game Maker PSP Runner, NEW CTO Announced by YYG

By: Nona Mills

Nona Mills — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:18:40 +0000

Wow, this is certainly unexpected news. Big move by YoYo, I’m impressed. I’ve been pretty disappointed with YoYo, to be honest. Seems like a lot of potential has been squandered so far. Hope the changes are big success for them … especially if the changes include putting someone on bug patrol for GM8.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:34:18 +0000

My opinion of YoYo Games is still relatively neutral. For the most part, they haven’t really done anything particularly wrong yet, but then they haven’t done a whole hell of a lot right yet either. I completely agree that it is much squandered potential though. When Mark helped form YYG and they took over GM’s development, I really expected to see things take off – I imagined that the things it had previously taken Mark years to accomplish could be done in mere months with a real team of developers behind it. Sadly, this isn’t yet the case, as most of YYG’s efforts currently seem to have been spent on monetizing Game Maker. And that’s fine with me – I understand it’s a business, and they need to have some cash flow to pay for the newer, larger operation – but it’s still disappointing that more hasn’t been done.

With the recent emergence of the PSP runner, and presumably yet-unreleased runners for other platforms like iPhone and Android, the future may yet be bright for YYG and Game Maker. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, eh?

By: xot

xot — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:45:41 +0000

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:04:58 +0000

To be honest, I felt forced into it. That probably sounds stupid, but as a creative type in California and an indie game dev online, I figured I’d at least reserve my name so nobody else could take it.

I really want to just hook it up to my Facebook account, so I don’t have to visit the site much, but I haven’t found a good way to do that yet. For the most part, everything I’ve posted there has been a carbon copy of a post on Facebook.

By: Matt Haigh (Mattthew_H)

Matt Haigh (Mattthew_H) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:05:10 +0000

So, whatever happened to ‘never using Twitter’, ayee?

By: SoulRed12

SoulRed12 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:32:17 +0000

I remember back when people used to post thread after thread on the GMC asking whether Game Maker will ever come to GameBoy Advance, PSP, the DS, etc. But so many osx developers are moving to the iPhone/iPod touch now that it doesn’t surprise me one bit that yoyogames (and developers in general) are also now looking towards handheld support.

Can’t wait to hear more about this new possibility. Maybe it’ll get me back into using game maker again

By: Dangerous_Dave

Dangerous_Dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:29:37 +0000

He’s not too good at it, is he?

Anyway, sounds like a bit of a bulge in the budget. GM8 sales must be pretty high.