COMMERCIAL GAMES ALLOWED NOW; ALSO RMNV4.4 STUFF

In a reversal of past policy, RMN will now be host to games intended to be sold commercially. This includes (but is not limited to) the traditional "buy it and you get it" games, as well as subscription based games, games with an in-game store, and games that are supported by real-world ads in-game.

Here is what was implemented for commercial game support:

• There is now a Is Commercial? checkbox on game profiles. Check this if you intend to sell your completed/full game.
  
• There are icons on the gameprofiles, games lists and blog list and frontpage flagging a game as Commercial (it is a couple of dolla bills yo).
  
• When a new commercial game is submitted, a PM goes to the user asking for a donation
  
• A PM goes to all admins if a download is added for a commercial game, so that we can keep tabs on them
  
• Naturally, updated terms of service and submission rules
  
• Games list is able to filter by commercial status of a game, whether to exclude them, include them or show exclusively commercial games only
  
• The Games portal by default excludes them
  
• You cant nominate commercial games for misaos
  

As a reminder:
All downloads submitted to RMN must be free to play


Now, we have also begun work on some more functionality enhancements for RMN, which I've dubbed RMNv4.4 just now.

Forum topic subscriptions
...are live now, actually. You can now sub to topics like you would a game, and receive notices on new posts. You manage your topic subs in the same area as game subs. Alternatively, you can go to the original topic and click Unsubscribe at the bottom.

Episodic games support
..we have a topic here discussing it. But the gist is I will be adding in support for episodic games into game profiles

Review tweaks
There is a bit of an issue where reviews for a game's demo negatively affects the game's overall score. I think I am going to add in some functionality for developers to optionally flag, hide or somehow exclude scores from reviews that predate a completed game's completion date, so that reviews for the demo don't count towards the score of the completed game. Those old reviews will still exist and be readable, however. This is just for the average score.

Also, I was considering allowing reviewers to tie their reviews to a particular download. This could help address the above problem, and also facilitate reviews for episodic games

Also, I was toying with the idea of adding in a "Was this review helpful? Y/N" thing.

Auto achievements
Basically, achievements given out for achieving milestones on RMN, like number of reviews, etc..

Allow for the upload of a file for Tutorials/Scripts (for demos, for example)

Game archive vault
for those lost games, so that we don't always rely on SegNin's harddrive.

Revamp of the Development Portal
It really needs it, and I have some ideas to make it better. (One example is being able to flag images added to profiles as "For Feedback" and these would go to a new Screenshot Discussion Repo for dissection and whatnot, but these images wouldn't show up on a) the frontpage and 2) on the actual gameprofile (unless they want them to)) Other ideas I had was a place for early project/ideas feedback and a featured game design topic. Also, maybe a Classified section for people to offer their skills/resource/time, and other people to ASK for things like "looking for composer" etc...

I'd get rid of the static stuff there right now to make room for a more vibrant portal. Basically, a place to hang and check out if you are in the midst of GAM MAK. (that was always my intent for the portals)


Also, I have heard murmurs from my minions that they want to tweak the layout of the frontpage and some of the portals, too. I don't have specifics yet.

author=iishenron
You're a sell out and you should be ashamed of yourself.

I am deeply shamed.

Anywho, I forgot to mention that I also tweaked user profiles Showcase game images, so that they use a "thumbnail" to show the image, instead of stretching the main image.

Also, I plan on adding support for more roles for games in RMNv4.4, such as Contributor or Programmer.

author=WIP
Commercial game support is good, but seems a bit too constrained and featureless to seem worth it.

We give all of our best features away for free.

author=Ljink
I like how this site is always being updated and lively. Keep that up.:)

Commercial game implementation is a neat concept but I can't imagine many people actually paying via other transaction sites. Honestly, there were only 2 games that I would have paid a good $15-$20 for. Final Fantasy BMP and Heroes Realm. Anyhow, I'm gonna like seeing how developers handle this new privilege.

I am always open to the idea of people giving me money.