MIRAK'S PROFILE

Ah cripe. Found an artist in record time. :sadcat:

I mean, as long as it's stuff you made yourself you can literally copy and paste it in every game you make if you wanted to without caring what people think (works for games like fifa and paper mario!).

If it wasn't stuff you made, then no you cannot add anything from another game into your new one, even if the resources you're grabbing were from a cancelled or abandoned game.

This is like... I don't know how to put it. I really mean no disrespect but having been an on & off freelancer for more than a decade now and seen and participated in similar websites to this one I've come to the conclusion that anybody doing artwork for rpgmaker projects and the like will definitelly be better off marketing themselves in the proper channels, social media and communities instead of using services like this.

It's really not my intention to put any sort of bad faith assumptions on the open but I have a few concerns. The homepage itself you're using a downloaded template with the RPG Freelancer logo replacing the default one, even left the default background image.

I took a look at what the "subscription plans" and payment methods are, there's a lot of headscratching charges and funds and terminology to which no explanations are given, just a title and an amount for abitrary things.

So for anyone reading and new to these kind of websites, they're kinda clones to the original freelancer.com and work pretty much the same, the owners offer a service working as middleman between a designer and a "buyer", offering the buyers a "safe" option to ensure they get the work they want and locking the payment until and only until the client is satisfied, after which the middleman (in this case the website's owners) "release" the funds to the designer while taking several cuts along the way.

Most if not all of these services serve little or no benefit for the artists. The way they usually work is a "buyer" will declare for example "I want a logo for my business. Description: It's called Boys Café and i want a banana on the logo - $350.00 USD" then you as the artist can make a "bid" in which you participate with a bunch of other people in a sort of raffle to see who gets the privilege of working for the buyer. In the most malevolent versions of this kind of website the bid you make is how faster and how cheaper you can make it compared to other artists, in others you actually have to submit a finished logo that they want and they then choose which one they like best, at which point that artist "wins" the money (after the site takes its cut from it, of course).

If that doesn't sound bad enough, I was curious to know how this website actually works but it asks for an account whether you click on hire or work, so before doing that, I took a look at the "site policies" section.

There are three options here, cookies policy, privacy policy, and terms & conditions.

1 and 2 seem like copy pasted policies most websites use, with the privacy policy in particular describing it will ask for personal information which is included in the info they share with their parent companies, affiliates and others. This is also common practice in other sites, however anyone reading this should ask themselves whether they want to consent to that on this one.

The terms and conditions are barely 2 pages long, and they say nothing at all about the service, neither on the side of the artists or the clients. Nothing. It reads like another "cover my legal bases" template copy pasted from the internet with the places changed to reflect that of the owner (California) but it doesn't answer any questions regarding any of how the site works or why the charges are what they are.

So yeah, I'm not going to say this is a scam website because the way it works is technically legal, but it's wearing the uniform of one, and has the common traits and symptoms of being one, since most of the time on the artist side you'll have a lot more to lose on many fronts. Time, effort, etc. In a way it's a gambling site.

Also I would personally like to believe that if anyone reading this thread in a niche website of an obscure internet hobby is actually looking into monetizing their pixel art, script writing, or other resource creation services they might be good at then they already know about itch.io, ko-fi, patreon and all the other certified venues where they can get paid on their own terms without having to bid for it in any shape or form.

I'm jealous of this game purely for the fact that it probably cost the dev $0 to make not counting what they spent on the engine (if they didn't pirate it), and they probably made their money back long ago anyway.

Alrite i finished the gam, that was very fun! I even got a bit misty eyed at the end of the main game there. The expansions were also very cool, the discord one had me rolling, and kloe's dungeon was very entertaining little puzzler.

All in all a great job dude! Very much worth the wait!