DOES ANYONE REMEMBER GAMINGW? (REMEMBERING GAMINGW)

author=halibabica
I think I still have a copy of that on my computer. I was one of the folks who helped test the game a lot. It was ultimately named Banana Nababa.

Thanks halibabical! Yeah, I downloaded Banana Nababa, a few days ago, after you mentioned it <3. I found it on archive.org (I believe it was part of gamingw's initiative to add their games to the archive.org - It still holds up actually!

I think I sunk maybe 3 hours into it, trying to get to the 3rd Boss; it's like the best parts of Contra but without the frustrating cheap deaths - like, each boss comes down to, memorizing what's the best way to maneuver around the level without getting hit.

But like, unlike Contra, it's easier, but intricate to figure out these movements - Like, it's actually a lot of fun and you get a new weapon after beating each boss. But ya, this is the first time I'm playing it and it still holds up!

https://archive.org/details/BananaNababa

author=Shinan
There was that April fools prank that made everyone admin. (and made one subforum where people could actually use those "admin" powers)

I remember that, I also remember Esh, and also something about him becoming disenchanted with the film industry, shortly after finding work in it (I vaguely remember this). I think his icon was like, an Edward Norton-ish dude in a suit and tie I miss that dude - I can't remember why, but I think he moderated G&D for awhile before leaving GamingW.

author=UPRC
I think Gaming World's demise sort of started when certain people who became prominent in the community, who actively disliked RPG Maker, had started pushing to make the site focus less on it. Ideally, not even at all. It was sort of strange since that's what the site had originally been built around, and I remember a lot of people (myself included) feeling alienated that RPG Maker users were being pushed aside/away. I recall, at one point, it was pretty much deemed okay for the members who didn't like RPG Maker to troll game topics in Game & Demo. Take fan games for example (a type of game that's always been close to my heart), I remember taking a bit of abuse and shit from other GW users because of what I would create (fan games). The whole atmosphere on the site was just becoming really awful and it's the reason why I left and joined RMN, even before it became SaltW.

I always felt like, in the last few years as Gaming World, the highly influential members appeared to want to do everything in their power to make GW into something it wasn't, and I think that's ultimately what led to the site just turning into... whatever the hell it is now. It was just so mismanaged towards the end that it was painful to watch.

RMN, while never as active as GW was in its peak, is still a superior site. The best part about RMN? Nothing is really flat out "shunned", more or less anything is encouraged because, here, creativity is key. The fact that we're all just doing what we love is what's important on RMN, and I'm glad that a lot of former GW members who seem to promote that same message are here as well.

this is excellent UPRC, Thank You! I think this perfectly summarizes, I think, how we all felt back then. I remember jumping back and forth between RRR and RMN for awhile because most of the activity and excitement that use to be on GamingW was now gone. It was a very weird feeling to be there afterwards, like not just the negativity that members would throw ontop of G&Ders, But that feeling, the idea that, the place that we all once knew and loved was now, somehow gone.

But yeah, I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled on this thread and hope someone will jump in and fill in what GamingW was like 2001-2005. Was it like, how RMN is now? was it more like GGZ? Like, it's hard to describe the atmosphere since I wasn't involved back then, but I remember sometimes browsing the site after school and wondering what kind games were on there back then.

Like, were the early years of GamingW more like the early years of Newgrounds? Like this "tough, but fair" mentality?:

Like, if you were talented, you were "okay" but if you weren't, you'd usually get pushed around by the trolls - but you'd also have the people who were going into like, the animation or music industry, mentors, people who were always very kind and helpful to other users, etc.

Was GamingW 2001-2005 more like that? Like, it's hard to nail down the atmosphere of early internet communities. Like if anyone remembers Pendako it was an early internet whiteboard drawing site - that the cover artists of PSM (The Unofficial PlayStation Magazine) hosted and sometimes would hang out on:



Like, sometimes you'd get the random internet troll at the odd hour, who'd randomly clear the board, which a moderator would then kick. But generally everyone was just happy to be there, being able to communicate and draw with people from Europe, Japan and all different parts of the world.

Was GamingW 2001-2005 more like that?

author=Kaempfer
GW fucking sucked for years before it died.

Take off your nostalgia goggles.

Kaempfer,

I think everyone on RMN knows how much GamingW sucked, we've made several posts about it throughout the years (...It's why most of us moved here from GamingW):

https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/1022/?post=14373#post14373

https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/1012/?post=14107#post14107

...But what you just wrote, doesn't really tell me anything. It's incredibly dismissive and unnecessarily negative.

tell us why it sucked, how it sucked, when it sucked. Who made it suck for you.

I mentioned your name throughout this thread, cause you wrote this really great summary about GGZ! (♥)

I was hoping you would write something similar.
If you're going to say how much GamingW sucks, could you at least tell us why?
Like, I was really looking forward to what your thoughts would be on GamingW, because your summary on GGZ was so good.

I thought you would be the expert, what's going on here?

(I want to jump in here quickly.) Kaempfer, this is excellent. Thank You. ♥

GamingW's History is always going to be hard to talk about and I wanted to present both sides in a fair and equal way.

It was never easy to be on that site frankly, so I'm glad you had the courage to say it.

It's why I frankly never really participated in GamingW outside of a handful of interactions. So, thank You!