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To be honest, we’ve been facing a lot of inactivity lately. We have a portion of quality content submitted but I’m afraid we will not be able to provide a clear-cut promised schedule or prediction on the next issue’s release date, as it depends on a number of factors. Do know, however, that we are still working on it and the MarkUp project is far from being abandoned.

I’ll take this opportunity to appeal to support. Contact staff@gmking.org if you are interested in any of the following things:

• Becoming an active staff member and writer for MarkUp Magazine
• Contributing a one-off article (Tutorial, Editorial, or “The Making of…” article)
• Provide content suggestions, or any other type of support that you believe will be valuable

MarkUp has always been driven by the support of the Game Maker Community and the active dedication of its staff members. We hope that the respect and enthusiasm we earned earlier on is still present, and we hope the community is still willing to make MarkUp active again, either by individual support or by joining the MarkUp team and shaking things up from the inside.

It is easy to underestimate the power of personal life and the toll it might take on someone’s productivity, and unfortunately both Robin and myself have been hit really hard. We strived really hard in MarkUp’s first year to release on-time month-by-month issues and I think we succeeded to overcome any personal or technical barrier at that time, unfortunately with MarkUp’s second year approaching, it is rather obvious that we have not been successful (for reasons out of our power) to live up to the same standards of activity and productivity (though quality has continued to improve in the less-frequent issues). Sincere apologies for that, but we ask that the community bears with us and continues to support us the magnificent ways as it always has.

Please do remember to e-mail staff@gmking.org if you are willing to provide any type of contribution to the magazine. We hope that if things go well, we will be able to give you guys a great “2-year-anniversary special” issue.

Thanks!

Since GMTV has merged with GMking, we’ve been able to use some of our resources to help with marketing of GMTV.  The latest achievement, a new Drupal-powered website for GMTV at the new gamemaker.tv domain (donated by Phil Gamble of Game Maker Blog).  There are also some screenshots of the next episode up there, so be sure to check it out if you haven’t already.

Hello there everyone,

A new episode of the (not-so-regular) GMCast has been released. Episode five features Robin Monks, Philip Gamble, and Dan Eggers, reflecting on 2008’s events: greatest games, YoYo Games and security, and worst ideas. You can comment on GMCast on the GMking.org forums or the GMC topic of the audcast.

Enjoy!

We’ve been nominated in two categories:

• Best source of Game Maker tutorials and/or examples
• Best periodical publication

So, all you MarkUp lovers out there, go and vote for us!