LIBERTY'S PROFILE

I enjoy playing and creating games (mostly RPGs) and have a love of story and characterisation above graphics. I've been into RM* since '96 and have used all makers - started on the PSX makers, found and used a patched version of the SNES RM, then moved to RM95. When I found RM2K I finally decided to join some forums and I've been a part of the community ever since.

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Site last broken: 7th January, 2017
Before that: 24th May 2016
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Let's Write a Story! (RMN SPACE ODDESSEY)

Like many other threads we're gonna tell a story but this time there's a few rules.

- You must write 50 words. No more, no less.
- You must leave the last sentence unfinished so someone else can complete it for you.
- Where possible, leave at least two posts between your last one, before adding more to the story.
- Try not to go too off-track. The idea is to write a story together, so certain concepts, characters and the like should kind of match up from post to post. That said, space is the limit! Have at~
- Easy? Easy.
- Here's a quick word-counting site: https://wordcounter.net/

We'll start nice and simple:




"Goddamn it, Mary! I told you we should have left that fucking cat back on Helios 15. Why'd you bring the mangy animal with us?"

Jack Barrington, Space Marine, was not having a good day. In fact, it could be said that he was having the worst day of his incarnation.

"What? Are you going to pilot us back to the wormhole just for Snowball?" asked Mary.

"Why the hell not?" Jack slammed the shuttle's reverse. "Next time, we're skipping straight from Helios 12 to Helios 17."

"Asshole. Dying normally is unpleasant enough and you're gonna go back through the one place that broadcasts your entire birth and life cycle galaxy-wide."

"You know how they say dying is nowhere near as unpleasant as being born?"

Jack was grinding his teeth "I'm DYING to find out!"

Mary sighed, she never understood his stubbornness, nor his relationship to animals. Was he a complete enigma?

He didn't want to bring the damned cat in the first place!

Now here he was, turning the ship around, like an irritated mother fulfilling her threat to her obnoxious children.

"A rough and tumble space marine, going through hell for a cat."

"What will your buddies think when you bring their cat back?"

"McDoogle and Jam Five will understand just fine. They were there that day."

"Jack, it's been 8 years."

"I know, Mary. And it's still buggin' me. That's how big of a deal it was. Snowball has to go."

"Jack, you're an idiot. The mission would have failed without Snowball. That cat saved your life!"

"Yeah," growled Jack, eyes staring darkly ahead, "and made me look like an absolute fool in the process!"

Mary threw up her hands with a loud groan.

A claw pulled at Jack's pant leg. His body stiffened. "No way that cat was here the whole time! I'd swear we left him there."

"Snowball!" Mary was so happy to see her cat safe and sound.

"No reason to go through the wormhole, then." Jack sounded seriously disappointed.

"Well then! No delays, after all!" Mary nudged Jack playfully. "Come on, you erotic watermelon! We have a few spare minuetes if you wanted to... enter my wormhole?"

Jack's eyes widened at the thought, "Right now!? I thought you said 'No Delays'?"

"I think that's a worthy delay, hehe" replied Mary.

Jack didn't know whether to argue or to make love. He decided to ignore her stifled chuckles instead. After all, her wife, Petra (an Old World army veteran who could twist his whole body into a pretzel if she ever got the inclination to do so) was a good friend and Jack had a simple rule when it came to buddies spouses: Only with the buddies present.

"No delays, missy."

It saved his life before, and having an image of Petra "dealing" with a molester flash up made him feel good about the decision.

Mary was a little disappointed. She pulled the cat up and started petting it, which made Jack delightfully horny. He wanted to be that cat.

Surely Petra would forgive Mary for one, small act of passion with someone else... They were galaxies apart, besides, how was he meant to deal with his sexual urges otherwise?

But there wasn't time for that, they couldn't delay because there was imminent risk of their package expiring.

Suddenly, Gibblet 86, autonomous helper droid, rolled in from the rear chamber.

"Am I interrupting question mark?" queried Gibblet.

"I keep telling you, don't say the 'question mark'." Jack replied.

"My monotone vocal synthesizer makes it hard for humans to distinguish question from statement. Please understand that I am programmed to--"

"Alright! I get it. What do you need?"

"Unknown objects on approach period. They do not appear to have weapons armed comma, but since they are on an intercept course comma, I thought you'd like to know period."

"Mary, you and Snowball get yourselves to the weapons bay. I'll be counting on you to hold them off while I drive this hunk of junk through the upcoming solar array. Feel free to break out the plasma cannons, but remember, we're on a budget. Bot, go strap yourself in your pod."

With a quick nod, Mary clutched Snowball to her chest and backflipped out of her seat.

"Impressive exclamation point!"

"Bot! Pod!" said Jack gruffly.

"Yes sir period."

Shaking his rugged head, Jack pawed at the controls with sweaty determination. His focus had been thrown a little by Mary's proposition. He wiped his big hands on the towel he always kept nearby. Perspiration was a real problem for him.

He looked at the objects on the sensor net and breathed a sigh of relief. They were ships of the Kawaii, the most inoffensive, and adorable aliens imaginable.

Contacting them, he heard, "Please help, us! We're turning feral and killing everything in sight!"

No sooner had the Kawaii emissary said that than there was a mewl of pain and a spurt of red from somewhere off-screen.

"Jack, we have to help them!" cried Mary on the intercom.

"Dammit Mary, first the stupid cat and now Kawaii aliens on some kind of drug." Or poison. But what would the two of them be able to do about it?

Jack sighed and gave Mary a frustrated look. She clearly was filled with determination. "If you have a plan, tell me. If you don't, just leave it."

"Well... they're killing everything in sight, so if we blindfold them, then they'll be back to normal, right?"

Jack thought for a second. A surprisingly good plan. They just needed to beam over with some blindfolds, and catch them by surprise.

Jack transmitted, "Kawaii ship, prepare to be boarded. In exchange for our assistance, you be willing to take a cat off our hands?"

"JACK!"

"Just kidding!"

On the ship, they have to crouch. Mary sees a blue furred creature, three feet tall, with enormous eyes. Her heart melts. Suddenly dozens of them are all over them! Battle shrieks ring through

[Mafia] Anime Waifu Battle Royale! =+= FINISHED =+=

WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE FIRST ANNUAL ANIME WAIFU (or husbando) BATTLE ROYALE! WHERE ANIME WAIFUS (and husbandos) FIGHT IT OUT TO SEE WHO IS THE BEST OF THE BUNCH! THERE WILL BE DEATH. THERE WILL BE DECEIT. THERE WILL BE HOTDOGS.

LET THE BLOODING BEGIN!


It's time for another Liberty-ran mafia game. Yeah, you know what that means - more experimentation and crazy shit going down. Woo! Just wait til you play my Trump mafia in the future. Fun times. Anywho, we're not here for Trump. No. We're here to battle it out between our Anime Waifus/Husbandos to see whose reigns supreme!


To Play
Pick an anime (or other fandom - book/movie/tv series/game/etc) waifu/husbando and throw them in the ring.


Greetings contestant, and welcome to Battle Royale! Your name has been chosen from the many thousands out there to compete in the ultimate game of survival, where only the best of the best will be able to walk away alive. Be prepared to fight for your right to live!

Only two people will be able to survive to the end. To that end it is encouraged that you partner up with others in order to survive. Being in a partnership gives some bonuses, though going it alone can also be a good decision.

Partnerships:
- You may partner up with any living character during day phase (only when the game begins), but you may have only one partner at a time.
- To partner with someone, send a PM to Liberty indicating the name of the person you wish to partner with. You will receive an answer in reply to your request (whether it be acceptance or denial).
- If you are already partnered with someone and wish to take a new partner, you must first break the current partnership.
- If you offer to partner with someone who has already expended their new partner quota for the day, the offer will be rejected. You can still offer to partner with other people in that instance.
- If you offer to partner with someone and they do not wish to partner with you, your offer will be rejected. You can still offer to partner with other people in that instance.
- If you offer to partner with someone and are waiting on a reply, but then enter into a partnership with someone else, the previous partner request will be cancelled.
- If you change your mind about a partner request before they answer back to your request, the request will be cancelled.
- To break a partnership use the tag #solo in the thread or in the partner chat.
- You do not need to take a new partner if you break a partnership.
- You may have only one new partner each day phase.
- You cannot team up with a new partner during night phase (unless informed otherwise), though you can choose to break a partnership at any time, night or day.
- To break a partnership at night phase must send a PM to Liberty with the #solo tag.
- When you are partnered you will be allowed to contact each other. You will be provided a link to a place you may talk, Night or Day.
- You may pass an item to a partner by using the command #item give <name>, but only to your current partner. If you have no partner you cannot pass items to them.

To clarify, you may only join in a new partnership once per day phase, never at night. You may break partnerships at any time and may use either the #solo command in thread or in a partner chatroom. You and your partner need to head to the same zone during the night phase, but during day phase you may be in different zones to each other.

Zones:
- You may travel to any zone during the Night Phase, unless told otherwise.
- If you have a partner you must travel to the same zone together during the night phase (but not during day phase).
- You may travel to any zone on the map regardless of current position, unless informed otherwise.
- You MUST tell me where you're travelling or if you're staying put. If I do not hear from you where you intend to go, you WILL be moved randomly.


Night Actions:
- Every night phase you must send Liberty a PM indicating which Zone you are moving to. If in a partnership you must choose a zone to move to together. You may exist in different Zones during the day phase.
- If you do not send a move command you will be moved automatically and at random.
- Every night phase you may use either an item and/or skill that you have in your possession. You may only use one item during night phase unless directed otherwise. Skills may be used at the same time.
- To use an item: #use <item name>
- To use a skill: #skill <command>

Basic Rules:
- No talking in the thread during night phase.
- No talking if you are dead.
- No editing posts.
- Multiple posting in a row is allowed.
- No out of thread communication, bar Partner rooms.
- When a partnership is broken you may not post in that Partner room (though you can still refer back to it.)
- Codes and encryption is allowed, however only between those who have been partnered, due to keys having to be private (thus only accessable via Partner rooms).
- If you do not post enough during a day to make me feel as though you're participating, you will be modkilled.
- Every day phase you may choose to sacrifice someone. It is not compulsory, however doing so will make the Patrons happy. Happy Patrons mean more goodies given out for your use.
- The Sacrifice will be the person with the most votes on them at the end of the Day Phase. In the event of a tie, Patrons will vote amongst themselves.
- To Sacrifice use the tag #Sacrifice <playername>
- If the person Sacrificed is the Serial Killer, every living person will receive a special prize.
- If the Serial Killer is killed during the Night Phase, the person who killed them will get an ultra special prize.
- If the Serial Killer survives to the end, only they win.

- Timing: I cannot say exactly the timeline for Night Phase things, except that bar some exceptions, the general layout is Solo > Move > Items/Skills/etc


Patrons:
When you die you will not be allowed into the typical dead chat but instead become a Patron. Patrons can affect a number of different circumstances within the game including choosing Zone effects, giving gifts and effecting certain particulars. Votes will be held in the Patron room to choose the changes, or be given power depending on certain criteria.


Each person has a skill. Each person is a potential friend. Each person is a potential enemy.

Fight. Survive.




Currently Alive
- Asuna (Sword Art Online - Trihan)
- Pascal (Tales of Graces F - Hexatona)
- Sans (Undertale - Frogge)

- Lisa Hayes (Macross Saga - Delsin7): Sacrifice, Innocent
- Reisen Udongein Inaba (Touhou - psy_wombats): Fish Sword, Innocent
- Agnes Oblige (Bravely Default - Blobofgoo): Sacrifice, Innocent
- Balthier (Final Fantasy 12 - Zeuzio): Boom Mine, Innocent
- Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa - oddRabbit): Sacrifice, Innocent
- Shinobu (Bakemonogatari - LockeZ): Shot by Delsin7, innocent (lol)
- Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail - demonlord5000): Sacrifice, Serial Killer
- Tracer (Overwatch - Kloe): Sacrifice, innocent
- Miaka (Fushigi Yuugi - Cave_Dog_is_back): Shot by LockeZ, innocent
- Hana (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki - Irog): Shot by LockeZ, innocent
- Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill - TungermanU): Unknown cause of death, innocent
- Ononoki Yotsugi (Monogatari - karins_soulkeeper): Sacrifice, innocent
- Undyne (Undertale - NeverSilent): Sacrifice, innocent
- Maya (Phoenix Wright - Jeroen_Sol): Boom Mine, innocent
- Akatsuki (Log Horizon - Bart_Sol): Sacrifice, innocent
- Alita (Battle Angel Alita - pianotm): Self immolation, innocent
- Inspector Runge (Monster - Natook): Bear, innocent


Patrons
- TungermanU
- karins_soulkeeper
- Bart_Sol
- Jeroen_Sol
- Natook
- CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK
- Irog
- Kloe
- NeverSilent
- pianotm
- demonlord5000
- LockeZ
- oddRABBIT
- Zeuzio
- blobofgoo
- psy_wombats
- Delsin7

2016 MISAO WINNERS




The 2016 voting period has closed and the results are in! The amount of votes this year has exceeded those of the past 8 years, at 1707 votes total! Let's see the results now, shall we?


But before that, for those who are confused as to what the Misaos are, here's a bit of history:

What are the Misaos?

The Misaos are an annual award event given to indie games made in the RM community. 'Misaos' is the general name for the awards such as 'Best Atmosphere', 'Most Technical Prowess' or 'Game of the Year'. You can liken it to a "People's Choice" award, as the games are nominated and voted upon by the community-at-large.

Why are they called 'Misaos'?

In aeons past, the Misaos were organized and run by the good folks at #rm2k on irc.dynastynet.net and hosted on The Queen's Court website. iishenron (a.k.a. FinalDragon) came up with the name based on a character from one of his favorite animes: Rurouni Kenshin. Specifically, the character Makimachi Misao. The name has stuck, despite the fact that every year people wonder where the name Misao comes from (and they say that the name is silly). For better or for worse, this is what the awards are known as. Besides, the less-than-serious nature of the name suits the less-than-serious nature of the awards!


Results:

Best Graphics & Artwork:
Pocket Mirror

Raddest Setting:
Soma Spirits

Best Sound & Music:
Soma Spirits

Trippiest Game:
The Huntress of the Hollow

Most RTP Game Award:
Quest for the Peace Sword

"Lawsuit Waiting To Happen" Award:
Final Fantasy IV Alter Destiny

Best Game Title:
Weird and Unfortunate Things are Happening

Best Storytelling and Direction:
Soma Spirits

Best Protagonist/Characters:
Soma Spirits

"Kefka Award" Best Antagonist:
The Huntress of the Hollow

Best Shyamalan:
The Ledge

Best Intro:
Aria's Story

Best Finale:
The Huntress of the Hollow

The "How the Hell Did They Do That?" Award:
Revenant Gods: Ragnarok Chronicle

Best Gameplay Balance:
Three Ghostly Roses

Best Dungeon/Level/Puzzle Design:
Soma Spirits

The Most Boss of Fights!:
Revenant Gods: Ragnarok Chronicle

Best Fan-Game:
Final Fantasy IV Alter Destiny

Most Fun And Addictive!:
Soma Spirits

Best Old-School Game:
Three Ghostly Roses

Sleeper Hit of the Year:
Three Ghostly Roses

Most Promising Demo:
Weird and Unfortunate Things are Happening

Game of the Year:
Soma Spirits


Congratulations to all of the winners and thanks to everyone who voted this year!

MEMBERATION THREAD

DIS PLACE WE APPRECIATE EACH OTHER (AND ESBY)! SHOW APPRECIATE TO ALL MEMBER!

Appreciate the person above you


I APPRECIATE <insert member list here>!

<3<3<3<3<3

HAPPY NEW YEAR<3






May 2017 be a much better year than the last!

Secret Santa 2016






It's that time of year again, folks! Time to get your share on~

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), 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 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.
- The cut-off date for joining is the 8th of December.
- You will have until the 24th of December to send me via PM the gift for your Secret Santa.
- Do not tell anyone who you got until at least the 26th of December.
- 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.
- You do not require a game to join! It can be something small, cute, and personal, just for that person. Or, you know, related to their games too. ;p
- Names will be released on the 26th of who gave what to whom.
- 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 like VideoBam, flikr, Break, GorillaVid, Veoh and DailyMotion.
- Send me the link via PM before the due date.
- For reviews and artsy stuffs, send me the text/etc of the reviews/etc via PM before the due date.
- Do not add your reviews, arts or videos to the site until at least the 26th.




Santas > Giftees
LockeZ gave to Aracade
Healy gave to BlackWolf1992
Seiromem gave to Mirak
SgtMettool gave to Hexatona
CahsmereCat gave to Gourd_Clae
Gredge109 gave to Seiromem
Kloe gave to SgtMettool
Mirak gave to volke_locke
KatanaHiroshi gave to suzy_cheesedreams
psy_wombats gave to watermark
Red_Nova gave to Aquablue11
Zephire98 gave to Cap_H
BlackWolf1992 gave to psy_wombats
Kevincalanor gave to Zeuzio
Shinan gave to Kevincalanor
Miremira gave to Ocean
zDs gave to Frogge
Luiishu535 gave to Liberty
Aracade gave to Rachael
Hexatona gave to Nirwanda
watermark gave to Zakariya
Frogge gave to Mocoon
Zeuzio gave to Luiishu535
Mocoon gave to Shinan
pianotm gave to Kylaila
Archeia_Nessiah gave to kory_toombs
Kylaila gave to zDs
mjshi gave to Red_Nova
suzy_cheesedreams gave to TungermanU
Nirwanda gave to pianotm
kory_toombs gave to Miremira
Marrend gave to Gredge109
Ocean gave to Marrend
Liberty gave to blobofgoo
TungermanU gave to Healy
Gourd_Clae gave to Zephire98
Cap_H gave to Archeia_Nessiah
Aquablue11 gave to mjshi
Zakariya gave to KatanaHiroshi
Elf gave to Kloe
Rachael gave to LockeZ
BlobofGoo gave to CashmereCat

Any questions, feel free to ask~

Game 'Publisher' PM Spam

Many of you probably received some kind of PM last night/yesterday about a deal with a studio.

The person in question is a known spammer and was warned for doing the same last time they were on the site. They have been banned for this again (their ban expired) and had their duplicate account banned as well.

Whether you decide that their offer is for you or not is up to you, just keep in mind that they chose to spam a great amount of people the same offer and thus it is not your particular game that they care about - they just want money.

There are many ways out there to publish your own games. Just think on if you want your game tied up with the name of a company who does these kinds of practices and have a wholesale strategy for every game, not taking into consideration the personal aspects of the game itself:
- They do not check for rips or non-commercial material before offering you a publishing deal (apparently they assure me that they do check after they do the spam for interest trick but who knows? Just keep in mind that this can be dangerous for you.)
- They do not take into consideration whether a game is finished or not
- They do not take into consideration the length of your game
- They do not take into consideration whether your game is all custom assets or a mix of RTP/free resources

(I have since been told they customise afterwards based on details but frankly the first offer is pretty terrible representation-wise. That and they have some contractual details that are not great for people who want to maintain and continue work on their projects. Basically, if you like your game and want control over it when it comes to choosing where it's published, they probably aren't the right fit for you.)

They do not care about your game personally, instead sending out a bunch of PMs in order to catch a quick hook. Fly fishing, basically. Quick spammy casts to catch the attention of unwary 'fish'.

Think long and hard before deciding whether you want to trust a 'company' that works that way. Take care of yourselves when it comes to business practices - usually the easy and fast deal has a lot of issues that will make you regret.
Very few things in this world are simple or easy.


Also, if you do decide to take up with them get someone who is on your side legally to take a look at the contract to make sure it fits your desires when it comes to what you want from your game. Don't get caught out by a pretty by-line or the lure of fast, easy cash.



I'm looking forward to my "we're gonna sue you and your site for this thread" letter. (Already got it - that was fast. XD)

Your Newly Added Staff and Moderator Team!

After kentona and GRS left us, the rest of us sat down and twaddled out thumbs for a while before doing role-call. What came up was a bit disheartening - we'd members who hadn't been around for ages, members who didn't do anything and members who weren't being put to good use.

So we figured, hey, time to reconfigure a little and do something about it. Time to restock the shelf, so to speak.

Without further ado, here are the new staffers/mods and their roles.


Moderators
unity
Red_Nova
Marrend

Staff
StarSkipp (Will be helping out with events)
Illy (In charge of our Youtube)
Eplipswich (Also in charge of our Youtube)


Changes
Archeia_Nessiah (Front Page helper and Social Media (Twitter/Facebook))
Zeigfried_McBacon (Events and Engine Pages)


A few other roles are either being confirmed and initialised or still a little up in the air/need double-checking, but this is what we currently have.



Please give everyone here your congratulations as well as your support!



Please keep in mind that more names may be added later as necessity dictates, and that we appreciate all the people who put their names forward to help out. It really made us happy to see so much enthusiasm and general desire to help within the site. And remember - just because you offered to help and are not on this list does not mean that there's no chance you'll ever be on here. If we need more help in certain areas we'll be looking at those who offered to help out to, well, help out!



[RMVX ACE] Menu Paragraphing

I'm having some trouble with a few scripts that I've got set up for my horror menu system. I've been looking for a way to fix it for the past few days but cannot find the right piece of script I need to change, so I figured I'd ask here.


Basically the problem is this:


As you can see the text in the bottom window is cut off by some sort of padding or something, and then begins to go weird. I'd like for there to be only the same padding as on the left, and for the letters not to start going strange like that.

Currently I'm using a few scripts to get the menu to look and work this way.

1 Person Menu by Doctor Todd: http://pastebin.com/iejCseFN
SEE Item Menu Ace by Crazyninjaguy: http://pastebin.com/YKCt0CLC
Snippet edit of SEE Item Menu: http://pastebin.com/SfBTdifd


Other scripts I'm using (but I'm sure isn't making an issue):
- Fix to Map by Modern Algebra
- Receipt Window by Modern Algebra
- Hover Alerts by Modern Algebra
- Better Autoshadow Kill by Neonblack
- Item Amount Remove by Soulpour777
- Font Changer by Mobychan

And an edited version of Window Save File default script by myself.

Help please? >.<;

Acts of Random Kindness Day [GO!]

The site hasn't burned itself down quite yet, but there are bad feelings all around. Let's do something to clear the air a bit.

September 1 is the International Acst of Random Kindness day and we're going to have a small event where everyone who wants to be involved can do small acts of kindness towards each other on the site.

This can involve something as simple as finding a video someone might like and sharing it with them, to making media or writing a review or even just leaving some feedback or comments on their game pages (if they have some).

Try to give to people you don't really interact with much or might not know that well. Feel free to check out some of their older posts to see what they like. Ask the people who are their friends. Pay attention to them over the next few days.

Something kind, something simple, something random.

You may give to as many or as few people as you like. The more the merrier, though.


Post in this thread to commit to doing a kind deed/s on the first.