MarkUp Magazine

Announcing MarkUp Issue 15

markup — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:49:01 +0000

Dear MarkUp Readers

Hello all! We are very excited to announce the release of MarkUp Magazine's Fifteenth Issue! Though the issue has been long overdue and did experience some delays, we are quite excited about the end result we have! Enjoy a content-packed, high-quality issue!

Issue 15 Includes:

The Making of...
- The Making of Visit
- Journal: Cities at War
- Journal: World in War
Editorials
- Drag and Drop to GML
- Character Development
Tutorials
- Advanced RTS: How it Works
- Repainting the Screen
- Calculating a Hamming Distance
Monthly Specials
- Script of the Month
- Extension of the Month
- MarkUp Puzzle
Reviews
- Senseless War
- Angels
- Mubbly Tower
- Seven Minutes
- Silent Dawn
- D-A-N-C-E
Interviews
- ... with Coffee
- ... with Virtanen
- ... with OCGaming
- ... with Nightmare

Download

You can download Issue 15 of MarkUp Magazine in the following formats:

Announcing MarkUp Issue 14

markup — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:56:12 +0000

Dear MarkUp Readers,

Hello! We're glad to tell you that Issue 14 of GMking.org's MarkUp Game Development Magazine has been released!

To compensate for the period of inactivity, we have put together a huge, high quality issue, with (all the content you love)^2, a much improved layout and theme, and more quality and professionalism than ever!

Content for Issue 14 includes:

An Exclusive Preview of the full version of Sixty Five Million and One BC
An interview with Gareth Tilt, the creator of Sixty Five Million and One BC regarding Going Commercial
An editorial about Viscerality
Learn how to make lists with local arrays,
expand Game Maker with the .NET Framework, and
exploding a string into a 2-dimensional array!
Read about the Making of Falling Troy!
And see game reviews of Lab 14, Karoshi 2.0, A Dragon's Tale, and the Ancient Civilization competition winner, Ancient Ants Adventure.
And see interviews with 2DCube and SuperCasey4 regarding their games!
.. and view our set of quick reviews and monthly content, including MarDar, our Script of the Month, and Extension of the month!

Download this issue now!

Issue 14 is well underway!

markup — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:55:00 +0000

Dear Readers!
We realize there has been little visible progress in MarkUp Magazine lately, but we assure you that work on Issue 14 is well underway!

While still based on the same layout from Issue 10, the Magazine has now gone through a graphical refresh by Suhaib. Some might not be into the bold red color scheme for this issue, but we believe this one is cool enough and just might change your mind! Additionally, from a graphical (non-layout) standpoint, each upcoming issue of the magazine will be different and updated, both in terms of colors, effects, and the whole package.

According to our poll, technical topics are the most popular topic covered by the magazine, and these have been - like always - covered in Issue 15. We also added some depth and focus to such technical topics, so we hope MarkUp continues to provide you with your favorite topics of choice. The second most popular area covered by the magazine is Game reviews and with a new - and, quite honestly, impressive - team of active reviewers, we hope to have sufficiently expanded that area in a way that suits your taste.

Issue 15 is coming to you with exclusive previews, 'The Making of...' articles, and much, much more.

Contribute!

markup — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:30:33 +0000

With the relaxation season coming up, MarkUp Magazine is looking forward to its future summer releases, and we are looking forward for the amazing user contributions that makes MarkUp Magazine the unique, high-quality publication that it is. If you're interested in participating and collaborating in the next issue of MarkUp Magazine, then you might want to check out the rest of this newsletter, which will hopefully get you up to speed with the latest developments in MarkUp Magazine and the GMking.org network that publishes it.

MarkUp Magazine Updates

MarkUp Magazine is still looking for committed, high-quality writers as well as one-off contributions from our dear readers.

Apply to Staff!

MarkUp Magazine is in need of Writers and Reviewers. Go to the MarkUp Magazine website and click on Apply to Staff in order to post a staff application and we will contact you as soon as possible.

New Staff Positions Available

We would also like to remind you of the new staff positions available for you to consider:

Writer
A writer engages in the production of:

Tutorials

Editorials

Opinion Columns

Other similar articles

A writer therefore writes general articles of any sort, technical or community-related.

Apply Now!

Journalist

A journalist engages in investigative journalism, updates on important community related issues, obtains interviews, etc. with creators of new game releases, contacts important developers on updates regarding their work, etc. A journalist thus is responsible for the following types of articles

Editorials

Interviews

News items

Spotlights

Apply Now!

Reviewer

A reviewer tries out games and software, giving them ratings and providing opinion. Reviews include:

Game reviews

Quick reviews

Game spotlight

MarDar

Exclusive reviews

Note: When it comes to exclusive reviews, it is the responsibility of the reviewer himself to contact creators of new releases for an exclusive version of the game.

Apply Now!

Contribute to MarkUp Magazine

You can contribute to MarkUp Magazine in many ways, all of which are deeply appreciated. Other than applying to staff and become part of the decision-making power behind MarkUp Magazine, you can submit contributions by sending us your own articles to staff@gmking.orgm!

You can also help us by providing feedback:

The MarkUp Forums (Register) - where you could discuss general MarkUp-related information, view the 'Development Subforum' and give suggestions on current decisions regarding the issue under development, or simply apply to staff or comment on current applications, etc.

GMC Topic (Reply) - The Game Maker Community topic is the main source of feedback for MarkUp Magazine. You could post your own general feedback there, or alternatively, you could tune in and comment on the feedback, opinions, suggestions, and criticisms of others.

More information about contribution!

Announcing MarkUp Issue 13

markup — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:11:40 +0000

Hello,
We are glad to announce that MarkUp Magazine Issue 13 has been released! With schools and universities reaching their peaks, things had to slow down for this issue. This of course did not effect the quality of the final outcome which we are very confident will please you. Even with a smaller quantity of content in such busy times of the year, we're pretty satisfied after seeing the final result, that the content will please you.
Content

Content for this Issue is as follows:

Editor's Desk: Cloud Gaming
YoYo Games and the Community
Decompilers
Script of the Month
Development Journal: God of Rock
Music Theory and Composition
Persistent vs. Global
Beginning Theoretic AI
Efficient Source Code
AI Command Stack
Split Screen
Elemence Aux
Instant Play

Downloads

You can download the issue in one of the following formats:

High Quality PDF: Here
Low Quality PDF: Here
XPS: Here

Announcing MarkUp Issue 12

markup — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:01:01 +0000

Hello,
We are glad to announce that Issue 12 of MarkUp Magazine has been released! MarkUp Magazine's Issue 12 is our one year anniversary special, and was released today, February 19, 2008, to celebrate the exact one year anniversary of MarkUp Magazine. It was like today, one year ago, that the first ever Issue of MarkUp Magazine (the pilot issue) was released to the general public. Issue 12 celebrates one year of MarkUp success.

MarkUp Issue 12 is the highest quality issue of MarkUp Magazine to date, with more content, more editing, and more supervision than ever. We've strived to achieve an excellent issue with amazing content, and we can't wait to show you -- the community -- the end result!

Content

Content for this Issue is as follows:

Editorials
- Editor's Desk
- Game Maker Experiences
- Game Maker and Windows Vista
- More than Just Games
- Games I'd Like to See
- The Default Message Box
- YoYo Games: What would make the site much better
Development Entries
- The Making "The Expelations of the Little Green Pod Man"
- Development Journal: Cities at War
- Development Journal: God of Rock
Previews
- 65 Million + 1 BC: Three Months Later
Tutorials
- Artificial Intelligence for Beginners: A Conceptual Approach
- Storing and Retrieving Binary data using Bit Masks
- 360 degree Platform Gravity
- Vista's Game Explorer: Revisited
- IDs in Game Maker
Monthly Specials
- Extension of the Month
- Script of the Month
- MarDar: Creations
- MarDar: WIP
Interviews
- YoYo Games Winter Competition Winners
Reviews
- Space Explorer Deluxe
- Pyramids
- Books: Game Maker Apprentice

Downloads

You can download the issue in one of the following formats:

High Quality PDF: Here
Low Quality PDF: Here
XPS: Here

Announcing MarkUp Issue 11

markup — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:47:56 +0000

MarkUp Issue 11 is intended to be a compact and quick mini-issue to announce the Game Maker Race (http://www.thegmrace.com) results and celebrate the new year! It has now been released!

Announcing MarkUp Issue 10

markup — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:18:57 +0000

MarkUp Issue 10 for December 2007: The Holiday Special, has been released and is our biggest issue to date!

Announcing MarkUp Issue 9

markup — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:08:11 +0000

Hello Everyone! We're truly sorry about the delay. To ensure that sort of thing doesn't happen in the future, you could always PM me, or apply at the MarkUp forums if you like to help out! The good news is, 8 days delay isn't much!

Announcing MarkUp Issue 8

markup — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:30:30 +0000

The MarkUp Issue 8 Spooky special, for October 2007 has been released.