BACKWARDS_COWBOY'S PROFILE

1) would you be aghast at the prospect of a regular funding drive on RMN?

Not really. You could even throw in a yearly achievement so people could donate, say, $10 each year to get a new badge or something. Just to encourage donations. I haven't been able to donate since I've had like three surgeries/procedures to pay off, but there's always next year.

2) what are you thoughts on RMN selling their adspace directly to someone like Degica for them to hawk things you might actually want, like DLC or engines or whatever?

Indirect ad selling is the reason I use ad-blockers. I've seen things that are probably questionably legal pop up on some websites before I started using ad-blockers. So selling directly saves you from potential responsibility in the event of a hack, and looks much better. If I knew I was guaranteed to see RPG Maker-related ads, much like PlayStation or Xbox does with their home screen ads, then I probably wouldn't mind turning off my ad-blocker.

3) what about RMN selling their adspace directly to people to hawk their games and projects??

Love it. Love everything about it. Now when people show up in the forums and start advertising their unfinished Kickstarter-rejected commercial games and link to a totally different website you could just go "That will be $15 please."

If you go and make it public testing, make sure you emphasize that it's a game mechanics test and not a finished product/beta test. That should help decrease any possible bashing for RTP usage, but I don't think you'll be able to completely eliminate that risk since there's always going to be somebody who either doesn't read the warning or reads it and just doesn't care.

I think most of us would understand that it's a gameplay and mechanics test if you went and uploaded it, but anybody who's here just to look at the games might not. If it's a really big concern for you, it might be better to just send out invites to people you think would be capable of looking past the graphics and purely at the gameplay.

So we're now using the same messaging service as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory... Gammak has come a long way.

I might sign up. I haven't decided whether or not I trust it yet. I bought an ottoman once during a two-day only sale and I still don't trust it to support me without collapsing.

I've still got another 5 Hyrules and several For MS games to go.

I think I've found my spirit animal.