December ‘07

Posted on Jan 01, 2008 - 10:01 AM by bendodge

December 2007 was a slow month for the Game Maker Community, but here are some of the more noteworthy events:
YYG and the Open Web Awards
After some initial arguing, YoyoGames was nominated to participate in Mashables.com’s Open Web Awards contest, but lost out to CafeMom in the Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks catergory.
Releases
GMTech Magazine Issue 9
Another [...]

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Mashables Makes Up

Posted on Dec 15, 2007 - 08:12 AM by bendodge

A few weeks ago, Jim Peddie of YoyoGames asked in a GLOG entry for users to nominate YYG in the Open Web Awards (run by Mashables.com). Many users enthusiastically went to the site and nominated, easily pulling ahead of most of the other entries.
However, the two most popular entries, YoyoGames and Cre8buzz, were removed from [...]

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