When YoyoGames first replaced the Game Maker Company in January, 2007, many people complained that is was the beginning of a move to commercialize Game Maker. With Sandy Duncan’s personal blogs and reassuring statements, yoyogames.com’s launch, and the planned improvements to Game Maker, many users were put at ease.
However, there is an interesting rumor that brings back some of the old worries. This concerns some of the games on the YYG site. Several very good games (Pirates Coin?) have recently become popular, but many of the authors were previously unknown, and some say that it’s their first Game Maker game! This has led some members to suspect that Yoyo is hiring developers to make games for the site in order to increase ad revenue and interest in Game Maker.
While there is no proof of this, it is a very interesting theory and, if true, sheds a new light on YoyoGames.
