CIEL'S PROFILE

most of the people in this thread do not even understand the absurdity of the joke posts because the mockery is indistinguishable from actual skill designs used in their games. there was no real need to disrupt the earnest participants.

everyone step up to have your game analysed by the creator of 2011's best game

How many lines of dialogue should merchant NPCs say before engaging the shop menu?

What is the ideal number of healing potions to be found in an RPG's first dungeon?

How much damage should poison status deal to a character per turn?

Where is the perfect point in a game's narrative progression (percentage-wise) to introduce the airship?

Is it possible to supplant the '2-hit rule' when fighting goblin enemies at a game's outset?

At what rate should the party acquire new weapons? Is one per dungeon sufficient or should it be more frequent?

How much walking distance (in tiles) should be between the first and second town on the world map?

author=Fallen-Griever
I'm talking about the "taken seriously" bit that he also mentioned throughout that piece.

there was no direct correlation in what he actually wrote between being taken seriously and use of rips. he was saying that in order to be taken seriously you have to ditch the hobby mentality and start promoting your game correctly. do you understand the nuance?

Those professional reviews go a long way with businesses and distributors, and that is why they are successful while your games...unfortunately...are not so much. If your only audience is the "RM maker audience" then don't expect to be taken seriously outside of that audience. It's a cold way of thinking yes, but it's the absolute truth, and it does a disservice to those on your site who are thinking or who want to get in on the indie gaming scene as actual game developers.

They were promoted to the public correctly, and now they're all generating a buzz because of the way they were promoted. If you all truly want to be taken seriously as a community, to get your games out there, free or otherwise, then the day you stop seeing yourselves as "this is only a hobby" is the day you'll be taken seriously as game developers.

he 100% talking about method of promotion. an example of what he was talking about - getting your game 'out there' 'free or otherwise' - is barkley, which had loads of rips but was marketed in such a way that a lot of people were aware of it and ethusiastic about it. the post was about putting your game out there, taking it to that level where a greater audience of human beings are willing to recognize it, play it, review it. he wanted people who make games like alter aila and leo & leah to present their games to the public in that manner rather than letting them just circulate within the rpg maker scene.

maybe your philosophy is that games should be taken seriously regardless of their graphical content. that's great. but in the actual words that he wrote there was no correlation between being taken seriously or being a good game and using original graphics. he even advocated the use of RTP, which is most certainly not original graphics, but since it is free of legal restrictions it is great to use if you intend on marketing your game to a commercial audience. he made the unfortunate mistake of bringing up the topic of rips in reference to the legal implications of selling a game, which was only tangentially related to his main point, but you immediately latched on to the words 'taken seriously' and 'rips' and formulated a vigorous riposte to an assertion he didn't make.

this topic is about the specifics of the internal review system for this site, a tool intended to help developers improve their work, not so much about what steps users can take to bring their games into the commercial sphere

author=Fallen-Griever
Original graphics, music and <whatever else> do not equal better games.

god how are you this stupid how is this possible it is like you are completely incapable of reading a body of text and discerning its meaning