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CloseBrowsing RMN for more than twenty minutes will invariably turn up a link to www.tvtropes.org somewhere. It is a website where various forms of media are cataloged, and the various conventions, or tropes, commonly used in them are described in detail.
TVTropes has a very open userbase. Anyone can edit it, just like a wiki. However, unlike a wiki, TVTropes has an "everything is notable" policy. Literally anything that exists can have a page on that website, and the nature of the site is that an intricate web of links inevitable forms between that page and the various tropes present in it. That means that even RM games can appear on it!
In fact, many RM games already have pages on the site, enough that it got its own tab on the Freeware Games page! Many of these pages were created by Fool, but anyone can make or contribute to a tropes page! I feel this is a great
endeavor and a positive way to attract new players and users to the site. Plus let's face it, tropes can be ever so much fun.
So, I call on all users to contribute to this cause! Do you think there is a game on this site worthy of a tropes page? You could help make it! However, there are some rules we should follow.
THE RULES
-Please conduct yourselves accordingly on the site and don't be jackasses who make a bad impression.
-Don't make a page for your own game.
-Pay attention to the site's format! Don't make pages in some random fashion that doesn't fit. Be consistent.
If you don't know how to format a page properly, ask for help.
-Be willing to put forth an appropriate effort in making the pages. We must describe the game and as many tropes as we can think of. Making lazy pages generally dooms the page to obscurity. It takes a certain amount of commitment (or WikiMagic, as the site itself calls it) to make a page self-sustaining.
-Have some idea what you're doing. Don't sign up for this if you haven o idea how the site works.
Don't make a page for your own game.
-Only games of a certain level of quality should be eligible for a page. "Pikachu's Day Off" does not need a tropes page. Show some restraint and think about what games really deserve them.
-Don't make a page for your own game
-For this project I would prefer we stuck only to complete games. Unfinished games have a bad habit of never being finished around here.
- ABSOLUTELY DO NOT MAKE A PAGE FOR YOUR OWN GAME. Seriously. If I find out anyone does this I will drive to their house and beat them with a shovel. The rule should generally follow that if your game is good enough, someone else will do it for you. Also, editing or adding anything to a page for your own game without a very good reason is similarly taboo. Or making one for your friend's game while they make one for yours. Seriously, don't exploit or manipulate.
THE FORMAT
I now open the floor to people who want to make a page. For a page to be eligible, we'll say three people must agree to work on it.
If you would like to create a page for a game, announce your intentions here! If two or three other people come forward and say "sure I'll help you make that," go, and make that page together! Once those people have established a good foundation, everyone else who has played the game can dive in and add whatever they want. Eventually everyone will spread out and start linking other pages across the site back to it.
If you've played the games that already have pages on the site, feel free to add tropes to them!
The WARNING
TVTropes is full of spoilers.
TVTropes is a huge timesink.
TVTRopes will ruin your life.
You have been warned.
Anyone interested in this idea is welcome as long as they conduct themselves appropriately!
TVTropes has a very open userbase. Anyone can edit it, just like a wiki. However, unlike a wiki, TVTropes has an "everything is notable" policy. Literally anything that exists can have a page on that website, and the nature of the site is that an intricate web of links inevitable forms between that page and the various tropes present in it. That means that even RM games can appear on it!
In fact, many RM games already have pages on the site, enough that it got its own tab on the Freeware Games page! Many of these pages were created by Fool, but anyone can make or contribute to a tropes page! I feel this is a great
endeavor and a positive way to attract new players and users to the site. Plus let's face it, tropes can be ever so much fun.
So, I call on all users to contribute to this cause! Do you think there is a game on this site worthy of a tropes page? You could help make it! However, there are some rules we should follow.
THE RULES
-Please conduct yourselves accordingly on the site and don't be jackasses who make a bad impression.
-Don't make a page for your own game.
-Pay attention to the site's format! Don't make pages in some random fashion that doesn't fit. Be consistent.
If you don't know how to format a page properly, ask for help.
-Be willing to put forth an appropriate effort in making the pages. We must describe the game and as many tropes as we can think of. Making lazy pages generally dooms the page to obscurity. It takes a certain amount of commitment (or WikiMagic, as the site itself calls it) to make a page self-sustaining.
-Have some idea what you're doing. Don't sign up for this if you haven o idea how the site works.
Don't make a page for your own game.
-Only games of a certain level of quality should be eligible for a page. "Pikachu's Day Off" does not need a tropes page. Show some restraint and think about what games really deserve them.
-Don't make a page for your own game
-For this project I would prefer we stuck only to complete games. Unfinished games have a bad habit of never being finished around here.
- ABSOLUTELY DO NOT MAKE A PAGE FOR YOUR OWN GAME. Seriously. If I find out anyone does this I will drive to their house and beat them with a shovel. The rule should generally follow that if your game is good enough, someone else will do it for you. Also, editing or adding anything to a page for your own game without a very good reason is similarly taboo. Or making one for your friend's game while they make one for yours. Seriously, don't exploit or manipulate.
THE FORMAT
I now open the floor to people who want to make a page. For a page to be eligible, we'll say three people must agree to work on it.
If you would like to create a page for a game, announce your intentions here! If two or three other people come forward and say "sure I'll help you make that," go, and make that page together! Once those people have established a good foundation, everyone else who has played the game can dive in and add whatever they want. Eventually everyone will spread out and start linking other pages across the site back to it.
If you've played the games that already have pages on the site, feel free to add tropes to them!
The WARNING
TVTropes is full of spoilers.
TVTropes is a huge timesink.
TVTRopes will ruin your life.
You have been warned.
Anyone interested in this idea is welcome as long as they conduct themselves appropriately!
I support this endeavor!
Also, this link is a place to start: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreewareGames
Expand the RPG Maker games section.
Jesus.
You are...
This is the most misguided......
asdfsghsghgsd;fjml
/me takes a moment to compose himself.
Making a topic like this and then expecting every guy who goes here not to make a thread for his own game is literally INSANE. It defines insanity. It is like drawing the attention of a gaggle of pyromaniacs to a large stock pile of incendiary devices and then going..."but whatever you do, DON'T set anything on fire." The amount of times that you tell people not to make a page for their own game...does nothing. Do you know nothing about the basic nature of this community? Or human beings for that matter? It's like God in genesis. "See this delicious apple right here? Don't eat it. Just don't do it. Don't. Don't eat it."
Watch everyone who does not have a TV Tropes page for their game within the next 24 hours feel that this rule does not always work.
I knew that BEFORE reading this topic, because the games that are on TV Tropes...are not the best games.
You are...
This is the most misguided......
asdfsghsghgsd;fjml
/me takes a moment to compose himself.
Making a topic like this and then expecting every guy who goes here not to make a thread for his own game is literally INSANE. It defines insanity. It is like drawing the attention of a gaggle of pyromaniacs to a large stock pile of incendiary devices and then going..."but whatever you do, DON'T set anything on fire." The amount of times that you tell people not to make a page for their own game...does nothing. Do you know nothing about the basic nature of this community? Or human beings for that matter? It's like God in genesis. "See this delicious apple right here? Don't eat it. Just don't do it. Don't. Don't eat it."
The rule should generally follow that if your game is good enough, someone else will do it for you.
Watch everyone who does not have a TV Tropes page for their game within the next 24 hours feel that this rule does not always work.
I knew that BEFORE reading this topic, because the games that are on TV Tropes...are not the best games.
Geodude your level of jaded hipster irony targ dry british humor whatever (I don't care enough to correctly characterize it) is so high that I can only rarely tell when you are or are not being sarcastic.
catmitts
4862
i like the idea of people submitting their own games on the basis that it's really funny to read a wiki and come across a page that was obviously written by the person it talks about. Golden Skarab is an unsigned nu-ska band from Hootsville New Jersey, they have many songs in a wide variety of songs from poppunk to heavy metal. All the instruments are played by Dougie Scagg age 16. You can buy our album by emailing them at dougie420@yahoo.com.
i don't think this is really what that site is for but good luck with it i guess!
i don't think this is really what that site is for but good luck with it i guess!
post=134621
the person who made the game is the person least qualified to write an article about it
This is true.
Uh, I think a lot of us can be trusted not to make a page for our own game. It's a stretch but it's not really too much to ask. I mean people generally aren't that vain.
!!!!
What site have you been visiting for the last three years?
I really must know.
Let me explain something to you:
People were so vain that WIP had to disable game topics in the forums.
People were so vain that WIP had to disable POST COUNTS. And SIGNATURES.
RMN is a cauldron of repressed vanity and ego bubbling, in need of an outlet. TV Tropes will become this outlet, and it will be retarded, and embarrassing. This is my prediction, anyway.
Sorry for being a Negative Nelly!
What site have you been visiting for the last three years?
I really must know.
Let me explain something to you:
People were so vain that WIP had to disable game topics in the forums.
People were so vain that WIP had to disable POST COUNTS. And SIGNATURES.
RMN is a cauldron of repressed vanity and ego bubbling, in need of an outlet. TV Tropes will become this outlet, and it will be retarded, and embarrassing. This is my prediction, anyway.
Sorry for being a Negative Nelly!
I know exactly what you are saying and I don't doubt that people will be invariably vain enough to write their own game articles but IN GENERAL, by and large the ones worth reading will be fair game.
NicoB
3071
I'm not really sure why anyone would want to do their own game. I feel like these TV trope articles basically just point out why your game is trite and unoriginal by breaking it up into specific categories. It kinda takes the fun out of some of these games.
But that's just me.
But that's just me.
I feel totally unqualified to write any TVTropes page for my own games, and would never attempt to do so.
eplipswich
2728
A bit off-topic, but while we're on it, do check out a Let's Play text version of Romancing Walker on this Tvtropes forum webpage:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=0ktszdouk4bw31cu0j2gcxuc&page=0
Pretty neat i would say ;)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=0ktszdouk4bw31cu0j2gcxuc&page=0
Pretty neat i would say ;)
I would never have written a page for Iron Gaia but now that apparently there is one (!?) I wish it was a little bit more inclusive. And I mean as a TV Tropes, not a game creator cause I know I use (am guilty of?) way more tropes than that.
For the record I knew this topic was going to burst into flames long ago, which is why it took me over a month to actually post the idea. Thanks for proving me right by leading it off with a full page of arguing.
If you don't like the rules/guidelines I posted, feel free not to participate. =)
If you don't like the rules/guidelines I posted, feel free not to participate. =)
Personally, I am not sure how much of an effect this push will make! Most people who visit the forums are well aware of TVTropes and it's not like we've had an explosion of gamepages there. Max, I think you are overstating the rallying power of a forum thread. :/
I imagine that anything that will come of this will be well-intentioned, since it is not like the extreme-lets-make-RM-gamepages people (if they exist) were barred from doing it before this topic.
I imagine that anything that will come of this will be well-intentioned, since it is not like the extreme-lets-make-RM-gamepages people (if they exist) were barred from doing it before this topic.
