Yeah, I know, I'm neglecting this place.

Some interesting updates. Bacteria 2 download stats have been sky rocketing. With last month the game finally reaching GameHippo the attention soon spread around. 2 weeks ago it was featured on Novinky, a Czech website giving me an additional 5000 downloads. A few days ago Bacteria received 5 golden doves from Completely free Software, a members only site. Next month it's going to be featured on the coverdisk of BRAVO SCREENFUN, a german magazine with about 300.000 readers.
All in all, Bacteria 2 is finally getting some more attention. It broke the 15000 downloads border and is currently at from my website. Note that several websites mirror this game rather then hotlinking and killing my server with 1gb/hour at peaktimes. 
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What do you think of the popularity of Game Maker games and which games do you know that gained popularity outside the GM world? Discuss