Gamemaker Magazine, Issue 4 | July Options

[Mattthew_H]

The Unofficial Game Maker Magazine

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Issue 04 - Out Now!
Yep! We're here to bring you Issue 04 of the unofficial Game Maker Magazine! We have changed the layout again, and we feel that it looks much, much better. We have also tried our very best to improve the quality of content and writing again, and we think that it is rapidly getting much better. There are also plenty of new things in the magazine that no other Game Maker magazine has ever done before! So get ready to download the best ever issue of GMM! If you read the magazine, then we would highly appreciate it if you gave us some feedback; good or bad, it's all worthwhile! This is what you can read after downloading our latest issue:

ON THE COVER
Interview With: TeeGee
Select an Anti-Decompiler
ANCIENT CIV COMP 1ST: Ancient Ants Adventure Review

NEWS
News at GMM
GM News Flash!

ARTCILES
Promoting Your Game
ENIGMA
Why Go Pro?
A History of Game Maker
COMMUNITY OUTLOOK: GM6, Why So Popular?
COMMUNITY OUTLOOK: Game Maker: Good and Bad

TUTORIALS & GUIDES
Good Platform Tilesets
Monthly Models
TUTORIAL: Colorizing The Screen
TUTORIAL: Simple Analogue Clock
SCRIPT: Windows XP Buttons

REVIEWS
Karoshi 2.0
Game Maker Battle Arena
Cubic Conundrum
ANCIENT CIV COMP 2ND: Caveman Craig
ANCIENT CIV COMP 3RD: Tut's Test

EXTRAS
Meet The Team
Cheaters Heaven
Hot New GM Releases!
GM Top 10 Games Chart
Fun Zone
COMIC: A Moderator's Life
Advertising
Final Words

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Currently available issues:

[/color] ISSUE 04 - June 2008 - 3.3 MB - 39 Pages
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ISSUE 03 - April 2008 - 8.6 MB - 37 Pages
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ISSUE 02 - March 2008 - 5.9 MB - 27 Pages
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ISSUE 01 - February 2008 - 1.8 MB -“ 13 Pages
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Watch out for Issue 05 arriving on your monitors in August 2008.

The GMM Team

This post has been edited by Mattthew_H: Sep 5 2008, 10:56 AM

[SunTzus]

Looks sick man, if only I could read it on a browser...

Edit: Website is not availble please insert valid website =P

Anyway, I liked the cover page. Well Done either way!

Format was a bit messy at some parts and sometimes hard to find your place in such.... however, the keywords were a good idea.. and I thought that was kind of cool...

Anyway, I hope that you continue working on it and you clean up the template a bit other then that good job! the interview thing was nice, it was overall a good read,

hoping for the next issue =P

This post has been edited by SunTzus: Feb 14 2008, 12:02 AM

[Mattthew_H]

yes i will try to add that fetuere on the web site soon

Mattthew_H

[SquareWheel]

Shouldn't this be in Web Site Announcements? I know it's a magazine, but usually these sorts of things don't go in the Community forum. Anyway, I didn't have a chance to look at the magazine itself, but I can comment on the website.

Firstly, I like the logo. It isn't over bearing or distracting, and ads a little bit of quality to a site. Secondly, the main body is a little plain. There should probably be images for the sides of the page content. Thirdly, the first news post basically repeats what the main header says. I would remove this bit: "Hello and welcome to Gamemaker Magazines homepage. Welcome to the Official site of the Game Maker Magazine." As for the "Download an Issue" page, you should probably just change the name to Downloads, or something along that line. You should also host the files on your own server. The first issue is dated "February", so I assume you release a monthly issue? If so, you should probably say this somewhere. And as for the "Submit" page, you should probably change that to "Contact" or "About". I would also not recommend putting you personal email down, but setting an email account up to use with your website and have that forward to your personal email. If it gets to spammy, you can then easily remove it and have no problem.

Hope I suggested something you can use. =)

[Scotley]

You used the logo that I made!

Using the logo in a publication may have prompted some credit maybe?

[anonymouss]

Musta taken a lot of creativity to come up with the name Gamemaker Magazine. /sarcasm

Put a bit more thought into it. Come up with something catchy and nice

You need to host it with more than just mediafire. It doesn't cooperate well with my computer, so I'm sure the same happens to others. Try willhostforfood. The layout of the magazine could use some improvement, as well.

And, what kind of a word search would you call the one in the mag?

This post has been edited by anonymouss: Feb 14 2008, 12:31 AM

[Mattthew_H]

thanks square wheel ill change those now
any other suggestions?
by the way the converter mucked up if you'd read the information, it dident know what was on top of what and the website is just a beta.
and yer i was looking for different hosts just that i could not find a free one or i could not remember the others.
I'm updating everything right now.

PS: what do you mean that you made the logo?
and the site wont look very good for a resion, I dident have much time to set it up so i need a web designer

Mattthew_H

This post has been edited by Mattthew_H: Feb 14 2008, 12:39 AM

[benetonmovie]

Great magazine Matt. The layout is pretty simple, but it does the job!

[Mattthew_H]

thanks benetonmovie
Next issue i have a streaky Silver Layout and it is alot better done.

PS: i wont be using the same converter again, it had to many errors and I'm fixing up the hosts and the site


Mattthew_H

[Scotley]

The small image is my logo, the larger one yours.
You have obviously messed slightly with the colours (or the pdf messed with the palleting), but that does not make it your own image.
Don't get me wrong, I like people using my work. I just like credit as well. I don't appreciate others claiming that my work is their own.

Would you like to take back what you sent to me via pm?

Hello scotley
what do you mean you made the logo?
i made it, not you, so dont lie.



Mattthew_H

This post has been edited by Scotley: Feb 14 2008, 01:05 AM

[Mattthew_H]

O, i understand now i thourght that you meant the Magazines logo.
yes now i would like to take back what i said it was just misinterpretation with what you said.
yes, the Gamemaker Logo is under copyright by YoYoGames Limited.
and yes Scotley you did make it i jsut thourght that you ment the GameMaker Magzine logo

Sorry



Mattthew_h

This post has been edited by Mattthew_H: Feb 14 2008, 01:19 AM

[LoopStan]

Dude, this is realy nice. But sometimes it gets realy glitchy, like when my dish doesnt work right.
@Scotly and mathew-
Mathew i KNOW for a fact scotly made taht logo. Dont say you did because its 00.01 % chance that you can get it that close. Please give him some credit. That logo must have taken him FOREVER!
I just saved his logo, stretched it out, and i got the same as mathews. So mathew, dont be a noob, GIVE HIM SOME CREDIT!!!!!!!!!1

[Mattthew_H]

Im not mad it was just a misunderstanding.
But i just wonder how Scotley feels now?

[Coffee]

Well, for a first, it's not bad, a lot better than most GM Magazine wannabes.

Pros:
Decent amount of GM content for the first issue
The layout was ok too
There was actually a good amount to read
The icons and such were good

Cons:
Could use a lot more GM Content
Please, if its a GM magazine, keep it GM only
The layout could be a bit neater
The WordSearch had no words in it, it was blank (For me at least)
The comic was...kind of crappy =\
There were some typos and such
Some of the icons looked bad, like the smiley one that looked crushed
It was kind of short

Again, for a first, it's pretty decent, and I would read another issue no problem, but I suggest recruiting people to help you to make it better and to fix some of those "cons" but other than that, good job.

[Mattthew_H]

Yer right now I'm working on issue 2 so if anyone else wants to help go a head just PM me, But i also thourght that it wasent that great but issue two looks like a completely different magazine, but every magazine has to start out some where.
I added the Empire Earth Artical because i thourght that some people might like to read it. if you think that some of the fonts suck well that is not my fult the converter dident have any of the fonts i used, so it did its best.

Any way Issue two should be done some where in march if go's as smothly as the first, but with less work with setting up.

Thank you to all the supporting people.


Mattthew_H

[anonymouss]

thanks square wheel ill change those now
any other suggestions?
by the way the converter mucked up if you'd read the information, it dident know what was on top of what and the website is just a beta.
and yer i was looking for different hosts just that i could not find a free one or i could not remember the others.
I'm updating everything right now.

PS: what do you mean that you made the logo?
and the site wont look very good for a resion, I dident have much time to set it up so i need a web designer

Mattthew_H

I could help with webdesign I can't make templates very well though. I own iwannaplay.org, though, if you want to see what I can do.

This post has been edited by anonymouss: Feb 14 2008, 02:30 AM

[CoolDude330]

Interesting and good for the most part except the background on each page made some of the text hard to read and it seemed generally cluttered. The review page shows these flaws the most. Otherwise it was good!

[Mattthew_H]

Right now I'm looking for Advice and or suggestions for issue 02.
I can exeplt any thing and if you want to join just ask.



Mattthew_h

[64days]

Great Magazine for first issue! 6.9 | 10

[Mattthew_H]

Hello Everyone,
I have good news, Issue two is coming along great, better than I thourght, what I've got planed
and what I've done you can see below:

2 booked interviews, one pending
more than 6 hot new game reviews
more than 7 articals
a new skin
Bran new Graphics
and much much more, so you can probably tell that it is coming along great.


Mattthew_H