CAP_H'S PROFILE

tale's dead.
the game's over
an update incoming.

or maybe mario's unity

The night is without an end and its haunting the remaining vampire hunters. Monsters are everywhere and followers of darkness use every opportunity to stab, slash or pierce one of them. They're bloodied with guts all over their once shiny outfits. They make it out of the Clock Tower
Finally, the last two hunters reach the final tower. It's just a short climb, few stairs, few bone pillars. They can smell Dracula in air. The stage is tough but they have way more difficult parts of this adventure behind them. Some parts of the castle seemed impossible and yet, the two of them survived.
There's not much to talk about no more traitors to think about. You enter Dracula's chambers and start throwing holy crosses and axes all around you. When smoke settles down, the three hunters stand there weapons ready to attack and oak stakes at hand to finish, but the Dark Lord is nowhere to be seen.

"Maybe he's invisible."
"I don't think so. There are three of us now."
"My dear, Dracula's already among us!"

Dramatic music starts playing.




You can post now. The day ends exactly in 47 hours. You only lynch a player if more than one half of players vote for them. With 3 players, the hammer is at 2 votes.


Do you think you would have time to haggle over items in a middle of fierce battle with Dracula? If you really do there's an oak stake on offer. Use #item name_of_player to vote for the player you think should win the item. The player with most votes at the deadline will get it.

I would say that the community is in a better shape than the maker. There are reasons for it. There are not many places like olde RPG Maker communities. Try to check forums on itch.io. There's not enough space for fun. It's all business.
As for the engine, the concept of RPG Maker is becoming obsolete. MV is too bloated to make simple jam games. There are many better tools like bitsy and pico today to make small and light games. And MV isn't versatile like other big engines such as GM and Unity.
It's still a great choice to start working on an RPG, but I bet that you find yourself migrating to a real engine soon with a more ambitious project.

Let's return to the community. RMN (I can't talk for other RM communities) isn't engine dependent. It's dependent on people, who like making retro rpgs, resources for them and talk about their favourite art, story and design choices. There are specifics to this community. We talk about mapping instead of level design for example. I would say that local events have a unique feel as well. It's a warm place to be a part of. Ofc RPG Maker projects are still a big part of this, but I can imagine this community to mostly abandon them and still hold together in some form.

Personally, I'm not working on anything right now, but I have several games on back burner. Each of them has a specific role in my personal development as gammaker. One is a community game, one is focused on making it as pretty as possible, one is supposed to push limits of RM2k and one is focused on narrative (it's an even moodier remake of one of my existing half-broken game).
Why am I talking about? One, I like to mention my halted projects from time to time to remind myself of them. Two, none of them is a serious project. For that I would use a more sophisticated tool than RM2k. Three, I'm still hanging around engaging in RM related discussions without being an active developer myself and that's because of an holding power of the community, which is not as narrowly focused as some other communities.
That said Sooz's right about its niche appeal.