A bit of a blatant advert this, but I reckon people will like this a lot

The new GMTech Magazine Wiki has a wealth of resources to help you make your games as great as possible. It consists of articles from past and present issues of GMTech Magazine put together on one website so they can be viewed from around the world and are in a printer friendly format. Currently there are over 125 pages for you to read. It is arguably one of the best looking wiki systems around with a sleek and professional design. Navigation is easy too with articles split into categories and a tagging system so you can find related articles or view all articles by a particular writer.

Because all the tutorials and examples have been written by GMTech's dedicated writers (or occasional freelancers), the quality will always be of a very high standard and everything would have had the benefit of being checked over by our very own experienced proof-readers. There's absolutely no half-hearted efforts with terrible grammar and spelling.

Apart from simple tutorials and examples there are other more descriptive development articles, such as A Game Planning Document, Speeding Up Game Loading , and Level Design. There are also a number of casual articles on topics ranging from Dealing With Comments Correctly to Stopping Beginners Starting Out Of Their Depth.

There are a number of free applications reviewed to expand your developers tool-kit, and in the future there will be a number of interviews with advanced Game Maker users to get even more advice (currently there is only one interview, but more will be added very shortly).

For the people who also enjoy playing other GM games all of our reviews of completed games and previews of WIP games will eventually be archived on it as well. If you are the maker of any of the games reviewed, you can now link directly to the article on your game topic so people won't have to download the entire PDF to view the one review.

You can comment on all pages in the wiki as well as giving it a rating to let us know what you think of a particular article, you can also leave more general comments on the wiki sub-forum on the main GMTech Magazine forum. This is not a full open-source style wiki (like Wikipedia for instance) but this does mean all content is guaranteed to be well written and nothing is left half-finished so you won't ever waste any time looking around for something worth reading.

We'd like a special mention to xDanielx for creating a GML2color Wikidot system for us to use so that all code on the wiki is in full colour for easy reading and understanding.

We hope you find this a valuable GM resource, and the best thing is more high quality content will be added every time a new issue is released so it'll be updated roughly every month or two. There is also a lot of content from previous issues still to be put on, so more will be added every week.

Links

GMTech Magazine Wiki: gmtechwiki.wikidot.com

GMTech Magazine Homepage: www.gamemakertech.info

GMTech Magazine Forum: www.gmtech.kwix.info/forum

Let us know what you think and whether you have any comments, suggestions, or queries. We hope you find the GMTech Wiki interesting and informative.

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Timoi

(Wiki Editor)