Hello,
Some random updates about my life.
I have given a presentation for I&I (a Dutch organisation of Computer Science teachers) about the advanced functions of Game Maker. More information is available at my portfolio (Dutch only)I've been working very hard on Game Maker.info. I've decided rather then to fill this blog with all my newsitems I've set up a seperate blog for the site. Some interesting new features are that the site is now multilangual (Dutch, English and French) and includes some nifty tools you might like such as linkable D&D icons and a GML color parser. We are working hard on adding some more unique features to the site. If you want to help translate the site, know RSS feeds to add, have tools to suggest for us to built, want to make extra themes, or have any other comment about the service don't hesitate to contact me. There's contact details on the about page for me as well as scattered just about everyhwere on the web.Other then that I'm currently spending a lot of time on school. A week ago I gave a presentation at our school on our project Faethon Da Vinci to among other the big boss of my faculty and the big boss of the big boss of my faculty. I'm giving my presentation again next wednesday at some school PR thingy. I am still trying to spend some time working on Game Maker but my time is currently severely lacking. Going a weekend on holiday to Brugge (Belgium) and a weekend to Amsterdam (museumnacht) didn't really help free my timetable. My current todo list is to finally finish off my still secret project, part #1. When Game Maker 7 comes out spend some time making my games Vista capable. When Vista comes out, buy a new PC. When the Wii comes out, buy it. Try to break my 1000 downloads/hour record for Bacteria 2. (Getting on the front cover of Spellenweb didn't yet have any serious effect on my download stats. ) Make sure my download counter can handle seriously heavy load as well as my games site. A week ago it crashed with 50 simultanious downloads in a matter of minutes with mysql connections issues. Become ruler of the world, multimillionaire and win a nobel price have been delayed for unspecified time :(. Now everybody go comment on my blog to show that people actually read it and tell me what you think of Game Maker.info? 
Had no idea you were even a member here Donkers.
Nice site but a bit plain and also a way too crowded, make a central news/info column to break things up and first comment, yay!The linkable D&D icons is a cool idea and I'm sure I'll use it some how in the future. The website is good but as ghg said it's a bit crowded. Only download Bacteria 2 after reading this blog, it's a quality game.
Its been some time since you blogged.
I quite like Gamemaker.info. I frequent it a lot!For those of you who dislike the theme, go change it. For those of you who dislike all the themes, create a new one and mail it to me.Just take the default stylesheet and modify it and mail the result to me with the required images and I'll probably but it online. :)
I've got a few ideas how to make the design less crowded however they involve completely redoing the RSS parser and loosing my current CPU light system. I'm working on it though.http://gamemaker.info/en
My favorite one.The term Game Maker Masterclass was invented by Mediaplaza when they asked me to give the Game Creation Masterclass. I found it best describes the situation here if you are asked to give a presentation for 60 computer science teachers on advanced Game Maker functions.
@ghg, I have no idea what you mean. If you are linking to a theme, you can't do it that way. Instead copy the link http://gamemaker.info/color/{theme name} from the Themes page. You can remove the language part of the URL. That way the page will automatically guess which language is most appropriated for the user.Wow, that Game Maker.info site is… really cool! Well done on that one :P
*sigh* turns out i cant read dutch….