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WHAT DEFINES AN EPISODIC GAME?
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MoonWolfV
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CloseI was uncertain what to put my latest project under, episodic, or non-episodic. I thought it would be episodic as it's separated into seven short, but different, missions. I've recently released the second demo of it, having completed work on the second mission, I change it to 2/7 episodes complete, and it's been set back to 1/7.
Is what I'm doing not really count as episodes? If not, I'll just switch it back to being a normal game. I was just curious to know why it might've been changed back to 1/7 episodes complete.
This is referring to "Saving the Planet: 90's Style"
Is what I'm doing not really count as episodes? If not, I'll just switch it back to being a normal game. I was just curious to know why it might've been changed back to 1/7 episodes complete.
This is referring to "Saving the Planet: 90's Style"
Dumb question: when you changed the number of episodes from "1/7" to "2/7", did you press the "Update" button at the bottom?
I always thought episodic related to having different episodes / downloads releasing at separate times. Probably within one game page. Prolly doesn't have to be like that and what you're doing fits, though; you're just updating the game project with every new episode. But, uh, the quintessential episodic rpg maker game may be The Way? So something like that as opposed to a game with several in-game chapters or episodes?
MoonWolfV
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Yes, I did click update and saw 2/3 episodes complete. I check back later and it was back to 1/3 episodes complete.
I was wondering if I'd broken the rules in some way, and this was why it was changed back. That's the only reason I can think of. If this doesn't really count as an episodic game, because I'm looking at what JosephSeraph said about "having different episodes / downloads releasing at separate times", I'd probably just switch this to just being an ordinary game, like all the previous ones I've uploaded here.
The way things are going right now, the demos/updates are going to be released in relatively quick succession, about one every month or so.
I was wondering if I'd broken the rules in some way, and this was why it was changed back. That's the only reason I can think of. If this doesn't really count as an episodic game, because I'm looking at what JosephSeraph said about "having different episodes / downloads releasing at separate times", I'd probably just switch this to just being an ordinary game, like all the previous ones I've uploaded here.
The way things are going right now, the demos/updates are going to be released in relatively quick succession, about one every month or so.
I have no idea how what you're doing brakes the rules of the site. I also have no idea how the the underlying systems of RMN would even be able to detect that separate gamepages are supposed to be linked to each other as episodic games, or if a gamepage consists of multiple episodic games, or if a gamepage is one game with multiple episodes.
*Edit: Though, for what it's worth, I tried changing the episode values for a game I set on private to see if that did anything to the gamepage. I didn't see any changes to that gamepage either. I even performed a hard refresh just to be sure. I'm beginning to wonder if the lines associated with episodic content are somehow "locked" after a gamepage is submitted, and accepted?
*Edit: Though, for what it's worth, I tried changing the episode values for a game I set on private to see if that did anything to the gamepage. I didn't see any changes to that gamepage either. I even performed a hard refresh just to be sure. I'm beginning to wonder if the lines associated with episodic content are somehow "locked" after a gamepage is submitted, and accepted?
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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If you didn't change it back yourself, then you just updated it incorrectly. Nobody else changed it. There's no official policy on what does and doesn't count as an episodic game, and I don't even think the site admin has the ability to change someone's game like that. If your game didn't meet the website criteria, the website staff would mail you to let you know, and possibly retroactively deny your game page submission if the issue were something serious like a pornographic game.
That said, normally an episodic game is one where the episodes are released as new downloads after a period of time. The way you're doing it is a perfectly valid way of doing that. The alternative would be to have 7 separate downloads for the 7 different episodes. I would personally recommend changing your game to non-episodic once you're done all the episodes, just so users aren't confused at that point wondering where to get the rest of it, but that's just me.
That said, normally an episodic game is one where the episodes are released as new downloads after a period of time. The way you're doing it is a perfectly valid way of doing that. The alternative would be to have 7 separate downloads for the 7 different episodes. I would personally recommend changing your game to non-episodic once you're done all the episodes, just so users aren't confused at that point wondering where to get the rest of it, but that's just me.
MoonWolfV
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I expected to be sent a message if something I'd been doing was against the rules.
Thanks for the info, LockeZ.
Thanks for the info, LockeZ.
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