INDOGUTSU'S PROFILE

Since RMN is one of the most active English-language RPG Maker sites, I thought that by becoming a member I could introduce my friends' games to an entirely new audience after being involved with RM for almost as long as RM has existed. Of course, this maneuver was somewhat of a failure, generating very little enthusiasm for our hard work. Only one possible conclusion can be drawn: we're just not that good.

I'm curious about the reason behind the community's general apathy towards Brasington Lane's expansive body of work. We have our own message board and dozens of YouTube videos with footage from our carefully-produced games, and we encourage our viewers and players to give us feedback, comments, criticism, etc.

I don't mean to open up old wounds with this following question, but how much of our lack of appeal has to do with our connection to Gaming Ground Zero? The impression I got from you all in my introduction thread was that most of you have either forgotten the feud, or the whole thing happened before you became active.

I have a friend who recently got a new computer. He loves RM2K, but can't get it running 100% properly -- the animation is choppy and skips frames a lot when the program is running in a 640x480 window. I had this same problem once before, so I suggested he use fullscreen mode (using F4) or change to a 320x240 window (using F5). However, he finds fullscreen mode annoying and the 320x240 window way too small. His previous computer didn't have this problem displaying 640x480, so is there some way he could fix it? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Oh, I'm no stranger to the effects of "e-ostracization" all right. In my experience, whenever I become involved with something, whether it's MIDI or RM2K or animutation, it almost instantly becomes uncool and passe in the general public's eyes. Also, my avatar is ugly because I am ugly. I'm just more open about it than most hopeless Internet nerds. And since everybody else on the Internet openly advertises their projects and achievements, in their sigs and profiles and LiveJournals and MySpace pages and DeviantART and OCReMix and elsewhere, why is it suddenly a crime for me to do so?

Hecatomb was canceled years ago, and no demo versions were released. Shichi was also canceled shortly after the first demo. FTrapper has made no secret of his growing dislike for Shichi, and how he doesn't think it's aged well at all. That's why he deleted all traces of that game from the Net for a few years, and even had YouTube remove a Let's Play Shichi video series. But due to popular demand, he eventually put the game back online in late 2008. Maybe that means his opinion of the game has changed, I don't know...