NTC3'S PROFILE

author=Sooz
Given some of the conversations in Welp, maybe people SHOULD be punished for using it :V

On a serious note, I am not sure how much more visible one can make gamepages, given that they are on the main page. Put in another sidebar on the Community page?

Come to think of it, it'd be cool to see a vertical sidebar of just new games as they come in. That would be p. neat.

I was thinking something a little simpler - just a forum thread of latest gamepages where a bot would automatically post with a title, a link, a header image and a first paragraph of description whenever one is approved on the website. Would such a thing work? After all, while I can appreciate some of WIP's sentiments, changes should ultimately be based off what already exists, rather than the ideal we think should be. If blogs showing up on the forums seems to work (somewhat), why not just try this way of bridging the divide a little?

EDIT: Come to think of it, bots could also be made to fire off single-sentence alerts about new gamepages in both Slack and Discord, couldn't they? (I admit in advance to not knowing much about those, having never ventured on the former, and only joining the latter about a week ago.) As to whether those services could just be excised off RMN and replaced with an in-built chat system... I would just quote the following:

author=Kylaila
It makes for their own groups n stuff tho. and that can be super fun for those involved so good for those who like the atmosphere.

In my experience, people will just naturally gravitate to such smaller groups, especially as the overall membership grows, and the tendency won't disappear if the means to maintain group exclusivity are removed, but will simply find another outlet. One of the more prominent online communities I've been part of was on a much larger (Alexa rank <1000 as opposed to our 60-80k) non-user-run website, which had the equivalent of gamepages (though in a much different, commercial context) with their own subforums, as well several dedicated forums. What was actually happening is that much like here, the subforum activity was only limited to the classics and the recent releases. Meanwhile, the two main dedicated forums have formed wholly separate communities that didn't interact with each other unless they absolutely had to, or with the people on the subforums (which included me).

After the subforum activity began to get moderated to unusable hell (partly as a result of people I still like and consider friends, unfortunately), our group had first exploited a bug in the site's architecture to use an older version of subforums that was hidden from general use, but still functioned if you knew how to get there. Once that was patched, we didn't really integrate with either of the two forums, but were simply shunted off to a third, abandoned one, where we persisted for about a year before fleeing to a tiny off-site forum, which I still visit. (I suppose it's a bit like the #schmup story here, though I was rarely more than an observer any true drama.)

Anyway, my point is that there are people who like talking to as many people as possible and having their stuff seen by as many as possible, and there are people who want the semi-privacy through semi-obscurity, and who'll try to get it one way or another, so destroying already established channels won't do much besides alienating a few.

author=FlareBlitzed

author=AliceMisaki
Thanks so much for your feedback!
We had fix some bugs you had talk about yesterday!
We will be glad if you try the new download we uploaded on 19/02 ^-^
Thanks again!

Part of the purpose of my let's plays is for the developer(s) to see a 3rd person perspective (sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can spot things that one may otherwise miss out on). ^o^

I'll be glad to give your recent update a run through and give you a comments in regards to anything outstanding. :)

Don't bother: I played it yesterday (my review for it is awaiting approval) and it's barely different from what you played. You might be better off trying Red Thread demo (which is considerably longer, more interesting and has about as much horror in it as Memoirs' one.) Or you could try playing Immortal, which is actually pretty good (assuming you haven't already.)

author=InfectionFiles
Thanks for the mentions, NTC3!

I also have a sneaking suspicion that this game was made off the base of my RE fan game, Road to Raccoon City. xD
(So, it's possible he knows of my games already lol)

Well, I wanted to give the developer a chance to answer this accusation, so I didn't reply at first. Now that a few days passed, I suppose we can now say silence implies agreement.

Haha, thanks! Well, this is partly a product of my circumstances; from April onwards, my RMN activity will decline again, though hopefully not to the (non-existent) levels of last year, so I'm making the most of it right now. I also expect others to become more active in the (practically inevitable) post-Winterruption review event.

Still, I can't say it's not fun to be only a few reviews away from entering top 10, a good while before the end of the month! I might hit something like 70 reviews by the next stat round-up at this rate: though I'll probably slow down a bit instead, and play some longer (5+ hour) games once I run out of recent demos.

Well, all your hard work has certainly paid off now, hasn't it? Again, great job guys! And yeah, that sketch was nice to see too; thank you, mjshi!