Yes, I know. I';ve been neglecting this place for a while now. As lots of other things as well. School started again and I';m now 3 weeks in my final year giving lots of chaos and hectic. It';s been calculated that if I work through in every holiday that I only have to make 60 hours a week :(.

Some more interesting newsbits though.

Windapple has translated my moving platforms tutorial and my Common flaws within GM games article to German for the German GMC. You can find links to the translations on both resource pages. I';ve also begin accepting requests for other translations. Anyone interested in translating a GM resource to an other language please contact me and we can work something out. You can reach me at blog [at] simondonkers [dot] com.

Some other good news is that I currently got a week long Carnaval holiday. I';me planning to make some free time to write some more articles for my GM website. Perhaps also examples and tutorials. Everybody, go fill my inbox with resource requests and I';ll pick the most interesting onces out.

Other then that I don';t have much GM news to report. I';m currently busy catching up on everything I missed the last few weeks and months. I';m also spending a lot of time on the Dutch GMC as a global moderator and moderator Experts forum and Game Design.

I try to support the development of Game Maker by increasing it';s popularity by maintaining a GM related site and working as a moderator. I';ve also released several games as opensource and currently have 3 GM registration keys. What I';m wondering is what do you do to help the development of Game Maker, increase it';s popularity, increase the quality of GM games, ... . Also what things do you think need to be done to increase the popularity of Game Maker.
Looking forward to your replies in my blog.