Announced today on the YoYo Games glog was the upcoming private beta program for the highly anticipated Mac version of Game Maker.
The testing will start out as a closed private beta that users can signup for by e-mailing applebeta@yoyogames.com with their contact details, GMC and YYG usernames. The beta program is due to begin by [...]
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In Sandy’s latest post on the official YoYo Games glog, there has been some discussion about the on-going Mac version of Game Maker that was first expected to be released as a beta way back in March.
According to Sandy, he has an alpha version of the software running on his mac right now and it’s [...]
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Almost certainly the result of recent criticisms toward the company, the official glog has been updated twice for the first time in about a month to give progress updates on the current Game Maker related projects.
The glog’s latest post announces that a (limited) private beta of the C++ runner should be available sometime next week. [...]
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According to a recent post by Sandy Duncan, Game Maker 8 will most likely be re-written in C++, making development for multiple platforms much easier. For now they are simply working on re-writing the runner and porting the ‘maker’ to Mac.
The main goal with the C++ runner is to essentially copy all the functionality of [...]
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Sandy Duncan has informed us that he saw a demo of the Mac version of Game Maker yesterday. Mark Overmars is currently in the process of deciding whether it is beta-worthy, and if so when the beta release date will be.
One thing Sandy does note is that Leopard (OS X 10.5) may be required to run the [...]
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