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The Misaos are an annual award event given to indie games made in the RM community. Have you taken time to nominate your favorite games from 2014 (so far)? If not, do so now! It is as easy as clicking Nominate on the game's profile!

Another month, another round of stats. We've cracked 2.5 million downloads, Kylaila had to defend a lot of reviews (judging by her comment count), and speaking of reviews, nhubi is climbing the ranks fast!

With all this recent talk lately about some of the more prominent members of the RM community that have been long-time supporters of Rm2k3 in the past, such as calunio and TFT to name a few, suddenly switching sides, and with more and more VX Ace games and users coming out of the woodwork like some sort of a cheap American car dealership, it seems apparent that the once, great mighty relic of the past is now slowly fading into obscurity… Let us all now bow our heads in a silent prayer…

I tend to like thinking about game design. Articles such as Deltree's are the sort of things I read ravenously. But despite there being a lot of good writing on the topic*, not much applied to my case, so I figured I might as well start a series of discussions here.

* (among an infinite sea of meh writing; most game makers are not great at reflecting upon what they do)

This month's batch of statistics are up. Notable things: we now have over 2000 downloadable games! We had over 700 different people post! kentona wasn't in the top 5 posters for the month!

Hey guys! I'm so glad to be working on this game again and done with that contest, you have no idea. Anyhow, a month or two ago I received some crit on the art in Ethereal Escape that made me think more about how I'd rendered the environments. I decided I needed them to look a lot more natural and began updating the graphics.

An informative article about how to pimp out your reviews

We have had a lot of discussion lately about people feeling that 300 words for a review is just too high and mentioning that they find it hard to find 300 words to write about. Thus, this article, giving advice on how to write 300 words (or more).

Do you want to see Zephyr and friends perish at YOUR hands? If you said yes, then we may be able to arrange just that! I'm growing closer and closer to the part of the game where the arena appears. With the approach of how I'm going to make it work taking a very different direction from the first game, I want some encounter ideas!

Do you want a character/monster from your own game to appear? Or do you have an idea for an original character/monster who could show up?

As part of my interview series, I'm speaking to prominent developers/contributors in our RPG Maker Web community to gain insight on their inner workings. Today we speak to Artbane, one half of the Solest team that created the epic seven-chapter superhero saga Master of the Wind, the hugely promising demo of X-Noir, and most recently the dark moody puzzle-adventure game Labyrinthine Dreams, which launched a successful Kickstarter to the amount of $6,000, and is now available in Steam stores for $3.99USD.

June is National Game Development Month (NAGADEMO) and the teams at RPG Maker and Humble Bundle have assembled an unprecedented collection of game development tools with the Humble Weekly Bundle: RPG Maker. Pay what you want to unlock awesome RPG Maker tools and help a great cause!