If you haven’t noticed already, the Yo Yo Games site has being missing functionality lately in that there appears to be only one page, a place-holder.
This also means Game Maker 7 can’t be downloaded the traditional way. A user on the GMC however is letting us know that Google’s cached version of the download Game Maker page has kept intact with the official off-site link (on amazon) where you can download Game Maker.
The link works, and for whatever reason if you need to download or re-download Game Maker in the next few days, please see here.
In case you happen to be wondering, Mark has confirmed that the download removal was a mistake. In order to have a smooth transition to the new Yo Yo site, member signups were disabled. Unfortunately, the company managing the site didn’t read the memo right and ended up taking a lot more down than just the signup page. They are working on fixing this problem, but during the weekend this can prove difficult.
April 22, 2007 at 8:28 pm
THIS IS NOT A RUMOR
April 22, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Not a rumor? It’s utterly absurd and of rather dubious plausibility.
… or are we really supposed to believe that they’re hosting GameMaker’s primary download site on a server that Mark doesn’t have the SSH password for, and that they’ve hired a webmaster who isn’t available on weekends? Jeesh. _MY_ customers have my cell and get to wake me up if I (or they) break something important on their sites.
Maybe I should see if YYG needs a site transition manager…
April 22, 2007 at 11:27 pm
It’s not the SITUATION being dubious in it NATURE… it’s the fact that this is reported, confirmed, and a fairly major news item.
April 24, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Of Course its not a Rumor, the cached version was found by garionw, one of the GMC Mods most hated member.
April 25, 2007 at 7:22 am
Nah, Garionw isn’t bad because of the “revolution” he thinks he’s stirring up. It’s the constant derailing of topics that his posts tend to lead to.
April 25, 2007 at 5:57 pm
What, you mean garionw’s Gamed? That goes live in a few days, to be honest, its actually pretty cool.
Heaps of awesome features and such.
August 25, 2008 at 12:58 am
Hi i’m from yoyo-games employee. Indeed the link doesn’t work as i thould be… It will be fixed but it might take some time please be patient.