July 6, 2011
The new website newsfeed is now located via -http://yoyogames.com/news
There will be no more Glog posts featured here.
July 1, 2011
We are still on target for launching the new site! Our current customers/visitors come to the site for different reasons but through Google Analytics we have broken down what these are. The site should hopefully demonstrate a cleaner landing page and easier navigation to where to go next.
What this means for you? Well, as regular community members this means better engagement with the content; regular up to date news, easily found (and up to date) resources, a simple purchase process...
June 27, 2011
Jesse Vogel wins Grand Prize Game Creative Challenge 2011 based in Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He won the first prize of 1500 euros in the original puzzle game Project W made entirely in GameMaker.
Project W, No cgc10095
Project W is a platform / puzzle game. The icebergs in the Arctic melt and sea levels rise. Countries threaten to overflow, so you must save those countries. This is done by means of levers that open...
June 24, 2011
Education
We attended The Game Creators Academy competition final this week in Kirkcaldy and it was a blast. Some of these students have achieved great things in GameMaker. YoYo Producer Stuart attended and judged the games for the final, a great time was had and was a real pleasure to see young people being so engaged and dedicate so much of their free time. Very inspiring! We hope to have some photos and a video on its way with a wee write up (after some editing)...
June 21, 2011
Further to the first glimpse of the new site, we’ve had a number of responses to this both good and critical. This is good. The reaction to restrict uploading games to the YoYo site to version Standard 8.1 was illuminating. We know whatever we do, some of it won’t be popular but in line with the purpose of creating a new site, we feel strong change is necessary. Let me try and explain where we are coming from…
Our new site is long overdue, the current site has become...
June 16, 2011
We are ssssssseriously happy to finally release our brand NEW game – Super Snake HD!
Made by Mark Overmars and...
June 13, 2011
YoYo News
Big welcome to Jack Oatley who has joined YoYo HQ last week!
here’s his community profile...
June 3, 2011
Today we are announced on Develops list of the Worlds top 100 game studios!!!http://www.develop100.com/
It’s...
May 31, 2011
Games
Karoshi version 1.1.0 has now been submitted for approval to Apple, and is now already out on Android from Friday!
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May 26, 2011
GameMaker
Small reminder that GameMaker Standard 8.1 will only be on sale for $25 until June 1st 2011 – then it will go up to $39.99! This will not affect upgrades which are free to those who have GameMaker 8 (with a valid purchase reference).
Still working away providing new updates, thanks to all those who provide feedback so we can fix, debug, improve. Keep em coming!
YoYo Activity
Mike, Russell, Sandy...