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And you have every right to do so; That's why the rtp exists and why people publically release scripts. Just don't be surprised when you struggle to get downloads, even if you release the game for free, because others don't think you're bringing enough to the table; heck, you'll struggle to distinguish yourself within the community never mind outside it where there are even more games to compete with. But no-one here is telling you how to make your game or how to best spend your time; you asked others for their opinions about whether they feel the RM stigma in the marketplace is justified and, so far, the answer is a resounding yes. Maybe you were expecting reassurance and validation from the community about your (lets be objective here) 'basic and standard rpgmaker stuff' game, maybe you'll get more of the kind of responses it turns out you were angling for over the next few days, I can only speculate, but no-one here has said ~'pack it in, son', ~'give up and go home', we've just said that, realistically, such games have little commercial viability and, really, were kind of the cause of the stigma in the first place.

@Saeryen From everyone's responses, nothing leads me to believe they dont understand the OP. And we've wrote what we have because it is possible to form a fairly accurate opinion about things without fully undergoing the experience. And you do it yourself every day. When you go to the shops do you open the cereal box to confirm the correct cereal is inside? Don't get me wrong, I don't think any of us are hating on RM as an engine (we all use this forum after all); We use it because we recognise good quality games are as possible in it as any other engine. However, blindly assuming everything is good and great until proven otherwise through personal experience? You'd poison yourself within hours if you took up foraging with that attitude.

@Saeryen Hey, I'm all for youngsters (and anyone else) improving themselves and I think, with all the skills that can be developed, making games is a great way to do that. But if someones made a bad game its precisely because they haven't developed those skills, or covered for their lack of ability in other ways (by minmaxxing their design, or requesting commissions,for example). And then they've tried to charge everyone twenty bucks so they can pursue a dream which seems to consist of continuing to make bad games. Using age as a reason for a bad product being bad isn't sufficient; Everyone has an excuse. Some just don't let it get in the way. And, honestly, age just isn't particularly relevant to an inability to make games adequately; there's not a lot of transferable 'real world' skills that you wont have already picked up from your schooling. As for malicious remarks... Everyone here has been pretty reasonable, even the quotes used in the OP. They aren't being malicious by valuing their time or by having standards to inform their decisions. Saying something negative and saying something offensive are very different things.

Well, this is far from a new attitude towards the engine; I've been in the scene for six or seven years now and that has always been the case. I do think its somewhat justified. The various iterations of RM are where a lot of people start devving, rather than something people migrate to, so fledgling devs are commonplace. And, y'know, new devs are all big dreams and bad work ethic (sorry!); they buy those crappy dlc packs (which would be better spent on private commissions supporting other devs in the community), they use the same scripts from YF and hime (if any at all), and they validate the generic visuals and mechanics by saying ~'its all about the story'. We've all seen that guy. Heck, most of us have been that guy, myself included. So whoever you're quoting there is far from inaccurate in saying a lot of released content is 'basic and standard rpgmaker stuff'. Some people stay and improve ofc and I know a handful of people who pride themselves on doing things that 'cant be done in RM' so, sure, its a tool like any other, but then weirdly you can get stick within the community for not migrating to another engine :3 So, for a long time, the negativity surrounding the engine hasn't really bothered me; its like playing low-tier :3 My problem has often been seeing mediocre games being praised ~'despite being made in RM', games like Skyborn or Always, Sometimes, Monsters that, when you're familiar with RM, you can see are actually quite poorly made; to me, people thinking this is the best the engine has to offer is way more detrimental. What people do with their finished content is a seperate issue, I think,since its largely irrelevant what engine was used; if its a bad game then its a bad game, and vice versa. Should a bad game be released? Probably. Should it be monetised? Probably not. But no-ones forcing anyone to buy bad games either.

Okay, I'll see what I can do

Yeah, a lot of those things were fixed/adjusted; text speed, cutscenes, and the big two problems where you were able to destroy cards stronger than you and attack the enemy directly when enemy troops were on the field. Those last two basically meant that whether things worked or not was pretty much random which must have made the game incredibly confusing for you It was useful to me to see some of the erratic behaviour of some of the cards like Erupt! and whatever is going on with the coin randomly appearing (thats what the giant silver 'H' was btw) although I'm sure it must have been a drag for you. I really appreciate you sticking with it, I probably would have given myself a concussion from facepalming by the end. The game autosaves when you quit, I guess I should communicate that and how the card shop works; maybe add a map/menu section to the tutorial. You mentioned the card UI could be improved but I'm not really good at that stuff. Other than what you said above,is there much else that you think might improve that side of things? (Oh, and 'Words' are what I put for cutscenes I didn't get 'round to making yet xD) Thanks again though, really.

Never got 'round to fixing this until just now. So here's the link for working (hopefully!) build: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7fx1x0tyf3e6g5/Sovereignty V.Chibs.exe?dl=0 Tbh, I'd been feeling so terrible about stopping working on it when it was in such a state that I kind of tried to distance myself even further. Not great logic, obviously. But now that everything's a-ok I'll probably get to work on it again.

Edit: Okay. Scrabbled around. Fixed one of the two major issues and, while I haven't had a chance to test, I suspect it may have been the cause of the other major issue too. Guess I'll see from your LP :3 Do you stream them live as well? I'd hate to miss it if you do. Here's the latest link https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7fx1x0tyf3e6g5/Sovereignty V.Chibs.exe?dl=0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, just saw your message on discord. So, here's a slightly less buggy version for you <removed> But, idk, its still kinda broken and might not be much fun to play :/

Moved to Recruitment.

Hey Chadzter. Your account hasn't been banned and Idk why you seem to think it is (it should also go without saying that probably no-one in the history of the internet has been banned for the reason you're suggesting). If you're having trouble logging into your old account just try the usual stuff like resetting your password and send us a screeny via this account & thread if you're getting any weird error message.

@Thomas Smith So, here's one which has been darkened and upped the contrast which makes the grass stand out a bit more. This ones a little different in case your dark forest is for spoopy purposes. I changed the hue of the sky and added some fog. Let me know if they need some tweaks to be fit for purpose

Mkay will look into both. The meadow will be easy Tom Smith so I'll do it after work today. Yours is kinda vague Roninator but I'll give it a go. Also just want to make it clear since you're asking for a formatting from a later engine that I would be editing an XP sprite and so to use that, legally, you would require a copy of XP for the license.

Thanks. Tbh, I got quite a bit better at the graphical side of things over last year and since I'm not serious about any projects right now I wouldn't mind taking on some requests for folks.

Hey, welcome to the forums. Always nice to see a new face in the maker scene

The turn handling sounds a bit like One Way Heroics, which was a pretty decent game. Do you support diagonal movement? Good that the enemies sound a bit more than just stat dumps but hopefully there's more on offer than what you said so far; a couple more easy ones would be teleporting enemies, or 'fast' enemies that move multiple squares per turn. Fairies seem to be becoming a bit more vogue in gaming lately so hopefully you can ride that wave for some extra support

Read through a previous blog post from around this time last year and feel like doing a followup of that socially conscious type stuff. So, life's still pretty messy right now, eh? We keep seeing everything Brexit and Trump touch getting worse, yet we don't stop them. Granted, props to the yank's courts and some politicians for taking firm stands against Trump at times; they deserve a lot of respect for standing up against someone as downright dangerous as that dotard :3 I guess its weird for me to see people dig their heels in rather than just concede making mistakes. Remember when people considered recognising errors and learning from them to be a positive trait? For people who aren't keeping score with Brexit it currently looks like this: -We pay a tremendous divorce bill that will likely range between £40-£60 billion. Would you like me to write that out with zeros? Remember that a huge campaign point to leave was all the extra money we'd save by not contributing to the EU. -We will continue to be aligned with the European Courts. ...But we'll have sovereignity* ofc (no, not that rad card game). Even, if this wasn't the case, sovereignty would have minimal impact on a layperson; it just means some other asshole rules over you...and its not like we've got any particularly competent people in office atm. And that applies to both major partys. *You will not have sovereignty. No substitions or refunds. -We're begging for access the single market and customs union. And ofc we would. Unfortunately, see above. The overwhelming majority of EU policy is for the purpose of harmonious trade. Wont oblige? Then you don't get access to the single market. And all that legislative nonsense about worker's rights. Well, why do you workers want that anyways? You've got just enough sovereignity so that companies can eliminate H&S standards for marginal profit (but hey, its not like you can put a price on human life otherwise). -Immigration has been reduced. Or, the 'no-one wants to live here anymore effect'. Aww ****. Now who's going to toil the fields while I play xbox? Don't be surprised when the same legal migrants we belittled and shoved out are given a golden handshake in five years to return. Guess who foots that bill. -Inflation is ballooning. Y'know how before Brexit people were saying, 'Mannn, the acceleration in inequality is really problematic.' Yeah, that's not better now. Sorry, I don't want this to be too Brexit-centric (although, obviously I'm more informed on UK politics). One of the most interesting aspects of it though is the refusal by both major parties for a second referendum. I kind of agree since the alternative is to regularly revote on this topic in case the consensus ever generally does favour leaving again. My main issue though is that 52-48 is not a clear enough result and we should have set a threshold figure, say 70%, to warrant this would-be massive change; if there was a genuine majority politicians wouldn't have to pussyfoot around issues to avoid damaging re-election prospects. Sorry again, its really hard not to get dragged into this ¬.¬ So, we're still seeing a raise in the political far-right. Jeez, we still might lose Merkel. She's really the last, best hope for humanity right now. One of the more amusing things about this is the British general populace's inability to recognise what the far-right is. Recently, its a become a catch-all insult used by airheads if someone says something they disagree with. Same as snowflake. As a literary man it saddens me to see language become the casualty of politics. Actually, one more fascinating thing about Brexit. A lot of people who voted for it admonish Trump; "Trump is racist, Trump's an isolationist, Trump only puts his own interests first.". Its phenomenal to me that they can say this with a straight face. Climate change is still, well, changing the climate. We're actually seeing some improvement in that regard when it comes to infrastructure, but the attitude of the general populace is still the issue. What's crazy is we're really seeing effects, even here in mild-weathered Britain. When grids go down businesses lose money. Those wildfires in the states aren't free for governments to put out. No-one benefits, people almost universally recognise it as 'man-made' climate change yet we continue to behave this way. Its unfathomable to me. Amusingly, someone actually tried to scold me at work this year for turning the lights off in rooms that weren't in use (naturally I reminded them they were not my line manager and that other's shouldn't have to suffer because they're too lazy to raise their arm when entering an exitting a room; Mama Nature's a milf folks, lets help her maintain her youthful exuberance). Automation scares were a big deal a this year; Heck, 'they took his jooob' was practically a campaign slogan for Trump back in '16. Here's the funny thing about automation and any form of universal basic income; they'll almost definitely never happen (or, at least, in such a watered down form as to be unrecognisable). And its largely because of the people these systems would benefit. Now I'm not talking about the truly down-and-outs like the homeless, the beggars or the otherwise unemployed; they have zero to lose. Its the working classes and smaller merchant classes. And yes, these people would overwhelmingly gain from such social advances but they would lose something, and that something is purely cerebral; they would lose the perceived meaning of the labour (and all the associated struggles of just getting by) that they've performed 'til now. Perhaps more importantly they would lose a level of distinction; out-earning others provides a sense of accomplishment; from this we can gather that some level of inequality is actually desirable by some (to an extent, myself included I suppose). My observations have been that the outright racism that sparked last year's entry has largely cooled down. In fact, everything kind of has. Maybe its the emptier bellies lowering motivation. Maybe the reduced immigration figures means we see less supposedly objectionable people. My view is that people are pretty regularly engaging in complete disassociation with the world; we read about Kimmyboy in Korea, how we're Putin up with the Ruskies, and that Trump's always got something funny to say. And then we just go about our day. I suppose its kind of necessary; its out of our hands anyways right? But it feels like people are really sincerely trying to find happiness now, to force it, because who knows when the bomb is going to drop. Well, I've been at this a while now and more will probably follow in the comments so now here's Tom with the weather...