Description

Friday the 13th is coming up and it coincides with the date of the next Release Something! Day! Talk about a coincidence!

So, some of you might not know what a Release Something! Day (RS!D) is. Basically, it's a day where you release something - anything! - in order to get feedback from the community. Release Something! Day used to be a regularly occurring event in the days of yore, back when the community had a sticky issue of never releasing any games or demos (because perfectionists I guess?). RS!D was created as a way to encourage sharing, collaboration, feedback, and content in the community. The aim is to truly try to capture the spirit of releasing something. It is not about prepping a major release, or making something in a fury to have something new to show for the event. It is about showing your works-in-progress, getting feedback, and checking out what other people are working on. Like a snapshot of RMN's development community.



What kinds of things can be shown? Music, tiles, sprites, graphics of any type, gameplay (videos of gameplay tests are good), tech demos, demos - even completed games (but don't strive for a finished product; that's not the point of RS!D). Let the feedback work for you. Although, there are some limitations to RMN's event profile - only game downloads can be submitted to the "official" event submission. But that's okay! I will manually compile all of the other types of submissions and update the event page.

So, some of you might not know what a Release Something! Day (RS!D) is. Basically, it's a day where you release something - anything! - in order to get feedback from the community. There will even be a podcast covering the releases.



1. If you are posting a game demo or download, make a Gameprofile (if you haven't already), upload the file, and submit the download to this event (by clicking the Submit button in the upper left)
2. If you are posting other media (like screenshots or music or graphics or videos) submit it to the site like normal and then post a link to it in the comments



There will be a badge worth 10 MS for releasing something. Best feedback givers will also get a badge worth 20 MS. Because the feedback is what counts this time.

There might even be a podcast!

Something Returns!

Details

  • 03/13/2015 12:00 AM
  • 03/14/2015 12:00 PM
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  • kentona
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
I Can Has Gam Mak
Kappa
Bludgeon of Inspiration
Unicorn versus Narwhal
Cash
Gatekeeper demo (slightly updated)
Delve - A Dungeon Crawler
Dragon Star Games
Pudymon?
Still alive, or not?
Etwas
Canvas (unencrypted puzzle rpg demo w/ walkthrough)
*muffled screaming*
Remi Team
Super Battle Kiddo Experience! This Version Final Release
Oh boooy
SAG (silly adventure game)
Bard Studios
Tactical Submission
Team Battledome
slash fic
2spooky2releasingsomething
*murr*
Sharing is Caring
Re-renting Something
FFDiscovery
The Island Somber
I'll Try
We like to torture ourselves with deadlines
Team Hopefully
To Zilmurik or Bust
Because I want to slay myself.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Dragon Kingdoms Returns?!
Monopoly
Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia
Single Slice
I'm doing a thing
CHEESE HAM HAM HAM CHEESE YUM YUM YUM
did someone say final fantasy
I can make it on my own!
omg
Time to Motor!
Open World in Review
B. Games Revival
Onwards to Customland
Ethnic Hero Face-sets
emaN maeT
You Can't Date the Dragon!
Picture-Based Font Creator
Something Awesome
Debonair Sins

Posts

CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
Yay I submitted. Looking forward to everyone else's. :)
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
author=Red_Nova
Well, my submission is as good as it's gonna get. Now I just wait for 8:30 hours when the clock strikes midnight on the 13th...


You have to wait for the secret thirteenth hour that's only given to game-makers (I wish it existed, at least ;_;)
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
9192
Well, my submission is as good as it's gonna get. Now I just wait for 8:30 hours when the clock strikes midnight on the 13th...
The battle system is really slow overall and it was really wonky how the agility of you related to the agility of the enemy. That's why a lot of games have odd agility stat values compared to the other stats. It doesn't help that you have to magnify the damage to like 400% or more (usually through the elements) so that your other stats feel like they mean something. The answer has always been to hack a ton of stuff onto RPG_RT making it even more unstable and less portable for all gripes.

On a thread long ago, I tried to hex edit RPG_RT so the battle speeds were fast. Someone eventually released a DLL injection that fixes the battle speed, but I couldn't ever get it to work myself. Out of that same thread was born the old RPG 20XX prototype which was just me writing RPG_RT from scratch (kind of like an emulator for RPG Maker 2003 games). Enterbrain's file formats and RPG Maker 2003's editor were too maddening that I decided to just make an entirely new RPG creation kit with the same RPG 20XX name. Around the time I was halfway through the prototype, another separate effort, EasyRPG was made and is still the only thing left that claims to convert RPG Maker 2003 games (closest thing to an existing RPG Maker 2003 game player) although they tell me there is no editor.

Yes, all of the above begun because RPG Maker 2003's agility was terrible.
Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
12986
author=WolfCoder
Kentona's law of RPG forum thread entropy hasn't even kicked in yet where people complain about RPG Maker 2003's agility stat.

That's interesting. I always felt that RM2k3's agility stat was a little bit imprecise? Or how does it work?
I love how I decide to check back on this event later and this whole page is a discussion completely unrelated to anything. Kentona's law of RPG forum thread entropy hasn't even kicked in yet where people complain about RPG Maker 2003's agility stat.
Please don't forget when Vic Toews tried a similar thing with expanding internet surveillance where police didn't need a warrant to do it. If you were against it you were clearly on the side of child pornographers!

The question itself isn't anything special either, it's just part of a Push Poll. Same shit as above (You're with us or with Really Bad People), just delivered via a push poll. It has the bonus effect of anybody who mails it in to be targeted accordingly by the CPC ad and media machine. It's an election year in Canada (October is the latest that the election has to be called) so expect lots of awful shit this year!
Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
12986
author=Pizza
@GRS/Kentona: Well, at least they're letting people with mental disabilities get in on political action now. Equality for all!

Some people are just insane. Like, I recently read about a couple who got put in prison for raping their own infant.

Like... Just why!?
@GRS/Kentona: Well, at least they're letting people with mental disabilities get in on political action now. Equality for all!

Yeah it's entirely sickening that you can apparently run a legitimate "democracy" by asking trick questions, though. "Do you agree with us, or do you want to go to jail?"
holy fuck GRS. that is unbelievable.

EDIT:

Poll question: Is this mailout terrible?
O Yes, because I am an intelligent person.
O No, but then again I eat kittens.
slash
APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
4158
holy shit

Is... is that real?

Reminds me of when the Koch brothers posted fake eviction notices all around Detroit to scare people about the new bridge to Windsor.
Sounds like somebody checked the "I'm with the terrorists!" box!




Comedy edit:


It's funny because ha ha



These have been your posts of mad Canadians angry with Dear Leader's Office
author=kentona
author=Puddor
It's Friday my time and I've submitted mine. I dunno what time I'll be home tomorrow because I'm highly considering going to a protest.
This Saturday there's a big protest planned in Canada against our PM's horrid Secret Police bill (basically, he wants to create a secret police force to spy and preemptively arrest canadians based on vague terms and no oversight). Our current PM is the worst PM canada's ever had.


Harper does such a good job of not telling anybody anything that I've never even heard of the protest to that bill, let alone the bill itself.

Fucking Harper.
author=GreatRedSpirit
author=kentona
iirc downloads dont need approval. Get your gameprofiles submitted as soon as possible though
Unless it changed in the... years since I last submitted a download a new download goes through the queue. Updating / replacing a download doesn't.

It has changed! I remember changing it (I was pretty sure). I was just blindly approving all downloads anyway, and was like "what's the point of approval for this??"

author=hedge1
Could we submit an update to a utility we created for Release Something?

That's totally a something!

author=Puddor
It's Friday my time and I've submitted mine. I dunno what time I'll be home tomorrow because I'm highly considering going to a protest.

This Saturday there's a big protest planned in Canada against our PM's horrid Secret Police bill (basically, he wants to create a secret police force to spy and preemptively arrest canadians based on vague terms and no oversight). Our current PM is the worst PM canada's ever had.
Puddor
if squallbutts was a misao category i'd win every damn year
5702
It's Friday my time and I've submitted mine. I dunno what time I'll be home tomorrow because I'm highly considering going to a protest.
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
You can do it, Marrend :)
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
Man, and I thought I was insane for trying to implement the Wand of Blasting. Yet, here is this mission-script, practically staring at me in the face.

Is this really ME doing this? I recall being deathly afraid of using scripts.
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
Yeah I'm pretty sure that counts as something. I don't think the rules are that strict on what you're releasing, as long as it's something :)
Could we submit an update to a utility we created for Release Something?
Well, shows what I know as a member of the staff!
Now I'm curious when it was changed.