How?

People like them.

jakman4242 is right. People love/like them.

no you need to get lots of plays and ratings and reviews

Or you need to have several featured games already.

Or you need to have a good game and get lucky.

One of the YYG moderators/admins plays the game. If one of us likes it, we feature it.

There are no set conditions for a game being featured. Of course, for more well-known members, such as those with a high number of featured games already, we're more likely to find a game we think is worth the attention a featured game gets.

They pick names out of a hat.

Oh, also they have to have a human sacrifice before-hand to make sure they choose the right choice.

What?

If you have 5 featured games, and then put together a game in like 30 minutes, that game will magicly be featured too.

Please don't tell me I'm the only one who sees the nonsense of having a featured game already to the answer of how to get a featured game..

NAL, being a moderator on YYG answered the question for you guys. No, your games aren't featured 'magically' if all your other games are (proof). And no, they aren't drawn from a hat. The whole reason for the featured games system is so that those games that are good are easy to find by people new to Game Maker, so they can see what Game Maker is capable of, and it makes them more willing to download it and buy the full version.

No, you're the only one who drew that nonsense conclusion.

you make a REALLY good game, and it gets lots of attention, and lots of people like it, and a moderator might just happen to play it, and they might recommend it, or maybe even feature it them selfs (I'm not sure if they have power too)

Are you kidding me?

You can't say "have one of your other games featured" to answer "how do I get one of my games featured" because he doesn't have one in the first place.
How did he get that first featured game?



EDIT: If you meant something else by your post, please make it more clear.

EDIT:
You're completely wrong.

The "Or" doesn't change a thing. "Or" is implying, ' "or" you could do it this way ' which is impossable, since that way would require already having a featured game.

Yeah Duh, that's usually what happens when people like your game

Okay thanks guyz.

Read his original reply again. He quit clearly quoted some text and said "or". You're completely ignoring the "or". The "or" implies there was already something else listed, the method that doesn't require already having a featured game. Also, NAL clearly stated how games get featured (which also explains how people with featured games tend to get more games featured).

Edit: To make what he was stating even a bit more clear for a programmer:
if((popularAlready == true || alreadyHasFeatured == true) && randomChanceOfSeeing == true) {
featured = true;
}

But as NAL said, it's more like:
if((modLikes == true || alreadyHasFeatured == true) && randomChanceOfSeeing == true) {
featured = true;
}

Hey,if you want your games featured you best churn out some good crap until people notice you.

You can make the best game in the world and it still won't get anywhere if only five people play it.

Once you have a game good enough to be featured, twitter it. Or find other ways to make people (including the mods) notice.

Having 'pro' helps too, but I'm unsure whether this is a bias or just a trait of people who can finish good games.

Advertise your game.

Make a really good game, enough to get so many people on Yoyo Games website at once, crashing the website. Then, since the guys at Yoyo will be forced to update the website, they'll change the featured games while they're in there.