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.
October 10, 2007 at 6:49 am
But who says that it’s yoyo hiring these very good beginners? It could be some people, who is just very interested in computer games, and know C++ and other programming languages and is very pro, then they discover gamemaker, and with their experience from other programming languages easily can make awesome games… Or maybe, they work as a game programmer, and discovered gamemaker. I really don’t believe that yoyo has hired them… <_<
October 10, 2007 at 7:33 am
Hey, it’s a rumor. You don’t have to believe or disbelieve it.
October 13, 2007 at 3:43 am
Bridging the Gap was initially released at September 4, 2006 to the Dutch Game Maker Community (www.Game-Maker.nl). According to your GMNews, the first public beta of the YoYo site appeared at April 27, 2007.
October 13, 2007 at 7:40 am
Ok, I’ll remove that.
November 21, 2007 at 6:44 am
Hmmm. Dubious.
It seems a bit ‘OMFG, there are good games on YYG! CONSPIRICY!’
December 1, 2007 at 3:39 am
So what if YoYo are paying people to create games in Game Maker?