LIBERTY'S PROFILE

We know, we just like playing along. X3

are you sure you actually want that?

Dew it!


Also, I'll validate anytime!

So the basic answer is that the community started via piracy back in ye olde days when there was no english version of the engine. In a bid to get more resources and make their games akin to the ones we'd grown up being inspired by, it's no wonder that people ripped graphics - especially as there weren't many other graphics to make use of and those that did exist in the hey day of RM usually weren't complete sets but bits and pieces.

Over time the community created resources for use and shared them with each other for use, but there was a large number of fan games that used the resources from the games they were spawned from. And, again, there weren't really a whole lot of full set resource packs bar maybe Mack/Looseleaf, so people made use of the already-ripped (and added into a supplemental RTP) material to boost the amount of resources they had access to.

As the newer makers came out, a shift away from rips started to occur within most of the community, especially from the new sites that would come up to replace older ones and among those who started looking at RM as a serious game engine from which to make actual money.

When the official site came (RMW) they naturally had to pull away from rips as it just isn't legal to use the resources of other games for your own endeavors but this also led to a much bigger rise in custom resources and resource packs being made available legally - especially as it became a much bigger venture to sell to the community.



The biggest reason RMN allows rips, I think, is that we host a LOT of older games that started in the early years of RPG Making that used rips. If we were to say "No rips" we'd get people bitching about these old games like "but they can" and either have to remove every old game that uses rips from the site (um, no? we're about the only site you can find most of these games on nowdays) or create some sort of museum section.

We DO NOT allow people to steal from indie games because that's shitting where you eat. And yes, you can go "but stealing the resources from FF5 is wrong too" and you're not wrong, but most people in the community KNOW those old graphics and understand that you didn't make that shit yourself. They're much less likely to recognise a resource taken from, say, Elmo's Fun Playtime and thus they're more likely to equate that resource to your game (if later they play Elmo's Fun Playtime they'd think IT stole YOUR resources when it's the other way around). And that's just shitty behaviour and plain old not nice to thieve from each other. Steal from the rich, not your fellow poories.

It's also why we're very quick to make sure that commercial games don't have rips because we don't want no scuff with the law.

Also, if you don't credit you're an asshole. Always credit.

At the end of the day it's a case of we're old but we have some standards. Go use download Mack and Blue tiles or Teddy or whoever else instead. They're much better.

what if black? if you're tearing through time and space, doubling down is the best way to go XDDD

Edit: Was messing with colours and idk,


I think the white reads best from a distance, but I really like the bright versions just cos. The darker purple does blend better though. idk, just messing around XD