LIBERTY'S PROFILE

It's likely that those of you who have put your game through the queue lately have noticed the improved response time and the possible different notices and replies! This is due to Liberty finally handing the reins over to a new Keeper!


Everyone, may I introduce your new game judge, FROGGE!




Yes, our little tadpole has grown into a full-fledged amphibian and become not only a staffer, but your new and (improved?) Queue Master!

I am so proud. ;^;

Welcome him with open arms and congrats on the new job!

The rules of this challenge are as follows:
- The game must be playable in order to get the badge.
- The game must feature a tiger prominently.
- The game must be started and finished within 2022.
- The game must have at least 10 minutes of playtime.
- The game must have an accepted game page on RMN.

You will need to post a link to it in this thread when finished. Also, feel free to share resources here too!

You will then receive a Tiger badge worth 50MS.

It's that time of year again, folks! Time to give to your fellows~

What is this?
Why, it's Secret Santa, of course!

OH MY GOD! WHAT IS SECRET SANTA?!
It's a simple thing, really. Throw your name in the hat and get one in return. You are that person's Secret Santa and must keep the name secret from anyone! Then, before the due date below, you get them a present. On Christmas Eve, you will receive a gift from your own Secret Santa and happy fun times are had by all~

What counts as a present?
We usually like to keep it site-centric so stuff like reviews/media for games, short games that cater to that person's tastes, something for their game (resources/scripts/etc), a piece of fanart or fiction, a cool new avatar, something you think they'd like... that kind of thing. If you have a hard time coming up with ideas, you can ask me as an intermediary to ask them what they'd like.

If you have another idea for a gift, PM me and I'll let you know if it's fine.


So, how do you get in on this action?
Easy! Just give a holler in a comment below before the cut-off date. Simple, eh?


Rules are as follows:
- First rule of Secret Santa club. Don't talk about Secret Santa club.
- Second rule of Secret Santa club. See rule #1.
- Sign up below by leaving a comment that lets me know you're joining in.
- In that same comment list a few things that are your interests or that you'd like to get. It could be a review for a particular game of yours, the fact you like legos and spiderman or something of the like.
- The cut-off date for joining is the 5th of December.
- You will have until the 22nd of December to send me via PM the gift for your Secret Santa.
- I will be posting who had whom in this thread on the 26th so don't go spilling the beans before then!

- If you suddenly need to drop out, PM me ASAP, and I'll do some rearrangements. It would be preferable that you don't drop out, though.


- While it is not a requirement to have a game in order to join, it makes things a lot easier on your Secret Santa if you do. In the case that you do not have a game, put some thought into what kinds of things you like when you make your list.

- Please make sure your gift is of a decent quality. Put some thought and/or effort into the gift.

- Please do not include illegal or pirated items in your gift. Especially pirated games. I didn't think it needed to be said, but apparently, it does.


How to submit
- For video submissions, use a free-hosting video site. There's plenty out there - Vimeo, DailyMotion, Googledrive, Twitch and the like.
- Send me the link via PM before the due date.
- For reviews and artsy stuff, send me the text/image/etc via PM before the due date.
- Do not add your reviews, arts or videos to the site until I say so in this topic.


Santas >> Victims

Liberty gave to coelocanth
pianotm gave to OzzyTheOne
Frogge gave to retroexcellent
retroexcellent gave to Mirak
Soulrain gave to El_Waka
bicfarmer gave to Milenin
El_Waka gave to kory_toombs
Delsin7 gave to fomar0153
kiyasu gave to pianotm
oldpat gave to Liberty
kory_toombs gave to Delsin7
fomar0153 gave to Zakariya
Fflo gave to Marrend
KrimsonKatt gave to jewelswithwings
Zakariya gave to KrimsonKatt
jewelswithwings gave to bicfarmer
Marrend gave to Frogge
OzzyTheOne gave to Muffle
Miremira gave to Oldpat
Muffle gave to Miremira
Milenin gave to Soulrain
Mirak gave to kiyasu
coelocanth gave to fflo




Any questions, feel free to ask~


Helpers:
Marrend
aquatorrent

It's Valentine's Day and there's a lot of lonely hearts out there. Time to pair up!


This is a Pixel Quilt with a bit of a twist! Instead of one large quilt, this time we have small half-hearts for people to pick!

The full-sized heart completed:



- Pick one half of the below pairs of hearts.
- If you're the first to pick that half, pixel the part you chose (either left or right) and post it in this topic.
- If you're the second to pick a half in a pair, wait until the first half is posted, then fill in the missing half!
- Use the heart half provided as a base and pixel your art there!
- Picture should match along the middle as well as possible.
- Recommend a theme of cute/love/romance/etc but you can pixel whatever, really~
- There is a set number for a reason! You'll see when we finish them all~ This is the reason they're a bit on the small side. ;p
- A badge will come your way when all the hearts are filled if you took part!


We'll start out with allowing one choice per person, but will allow for more than one later on if needed.

Here's the bases to pick from:

Left Heart Piece

Right Heart Piece

Completed

Heart A - Ocean and Muffle

Heart B - Illy and esby

Heart C - TheRPGMakerAddict and Tar-sama

Heart D - Amysaurus and Dyluck

Heart E - NikkyoConsortium and orochii

Heart F - AtiyaTheSeeker and pianotm

Heart G - RPGMakerAddict and Delsin7

Heart H - calunio and orochii

Heart I - Fflo and Mirak

Heart J - El_Waka and RPGMakerAddict

Heart K - Zorga and coelocanth

Heart L - Liberty and JustAShyDoge

Heart M - awe_famsquad and Liberty

Heart N - Soulrain and CrazyBabi

Heart O - NikkyoConsortium and OzzyTheOne

Heart P - JustAShyDoge and Illy

Heart Q - el_Waka and Sooz

Heart R - Zero-vx and NikkyoConsortium

Heart S - el_Waka and akoniti

The Misaos have some issues that have become apparent over the course of the last few years. Ideas have been thrown around but the biggest issue seems to be two-fold:

1- Games are being nominated for categories that they do not fit and due to how the site works, cannot be manually removed.

2- Not enough nominations within categories to allow for a good amount of fitting games to judge from.

On top of those issues are the usual ones:
- not enough people playing the games to nominate/vote them
- not enough marketing during the year to keep the misaos in mind


Now, bar having some edits to the backend to allow edits to the Misaos, I've come up with a kinda simple idea that might help cover some of these issues.

- Keep the normal nominations as they are. No change to the set-up of the nominations at this point - through the year you can nominate the games on the site that you think fit a specific category.

- Use another site for the voting section. This would use the usual nomination round-up using the base form results, but curation would occur to cut out games that don't fit in the proper categories and add games that were well-recieved during the year.

- Adding games that were overlooked or not nominated. Usually we require 2 nominations to get a game into a category for voting. In this case we'd have a couple of staff who have played games over the year to nominate their top picks. Possibly tap the top reviewers of the year for their thoughts, too, and also add any event winners and front-paged games from over the year (both Featured and Spotlights).

- More instances of rounding up and review drives to get people playing more games released during the year.

- More marketing for Misao Nominations, possibly including raffle draws (there's one on at the moment!!!) and mini-events with badges.



Of course, this is just an idea on my part, but one I think would help get the Misaos back into swing. If you have ideas, let us know.