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author=Sycreala
Hello! This is Sycreala from China.
Many Chinese enjoy your game Oneshoot and want a Chinese version so as to introduce to more people.
Could you please allow us to translate this game? We will do our best!
This is our website: http://sycrealastudio.lofter.com/
And our mail address is sycreala_studio@hotmail.com
We are looking forward to your reply.
Thank you very much!

Thank you! <3
We've had a group contact us regarding Chinese translation a few weeks ago, so I assume it's already in the works! If you want to translate it despite that, it's fine too.

Well if you want silly categories uh...

Most Colorful/Fun NPCs
Best Mystery
Best Game You Can Beat Under An Hour
Best Puns
Most Grimdark
Most Pastel
Most Pastel Grimdark
Most Obvious Plot Twist
Most Shocking Plot Twist
Hardest Game
Wackiest Premise
Cutest Mascot Characters
Best Character Customization

I will have to agree as well! While I like aspects of 2003, trying to make custom tilesets was soooo frustrating, mainly cuz 2k3's chipset space utilization isn't that good (more than half of the tilesheet space are for autotiles, a feature I don't really find all that useful save for a few occasions) and you really gotta play tetris with the rest of the tileset to get everything to fit. The 256 color limit is also really restraining, especially when it comes to hand-drawn lighting effects. Not to mention that NPC sprites are also tiny and it was a bit hard to convey height differences.

...believe me, I wanted to switch over to XP so bad, haha! (I mean, unlimited tileset size? 3 layers? come on!) But I consider 2k3 a good learning experience nevertheless.

author=Merlandese

author=TheJudge

author=Deacon Batista
Glad most of the awards were won by a 2k3 game.

Honestly the overly fancy art style of XP and the character sprites of VX Ace are what keeps me from really wanting to use said programs.

This doesn't make sense. Neither of the things you mentioned are more than options in both engines, if not every engine. HOME/OFF are prime examples of NOT using default assets, aren't they? So how can that be a deterrent?

It's the resolution rather than the assets themselves. In a tile-and-pixel-art based engine, low resolution graphics tend to look nicer.
I wish there's an option in the engine to scale everything 2x but in the meantime a script will have to do.

author=TheJudge

author=Addit

author=TheJudge
That would require either judges who are willing to sit down and play every single game listed.
OR
Have a system that allows a game to only be eligible to win one Misao. If it gets nominated for multiple ones, the category that has the most votes for it is the category it would win the award in, and all other categories would be open to other projects.

I think having a small team of selected officials, a Misao Committee, should decide the winners of each category after the nomination period closes and then picks out the top 3 in each particular category. So basically the nomination process would basically remain the same like before, with users nominating their favorite games, and what not, and then it just comes down to the Misao Committee at the end on deciding on what game should win and what not. This way the people elected to the Misao Committee wouldn’t have to basically play EVERY game that was released that year, just the ones that got nominated the most.

Also, we should change the rules a little about user’s eligibility when it comes to nominating a game to make things a bit more fair and cut down on any shady looking activity. These users have to have had their account open for more than 3 months and at least have more than 50 makerscore to allow eligibility for nominating any games for any Misaos.

Sounds fair to me.

Except it still wouldn't fix problem where the same 3 games might end up on top of the nominations list for every category.

The user eligibility thing makes sense to an extent (to weed out the votebots and sockpuppet accounts) Though I remember reading how people were mostly concerned about the game's popularity outside the site, which is a fair concern.
HOWEVER, I have a feeling some games might've got nominated and voted so much because they got the most exposure from simply being "buzzing" and being on the front page of this site all the time (and the reason why they're buzzing all the time is because they're trapped in a loop of neverending exposure. I'm looking at 1-2 game in particular that hasn't left that position for at least 8 months, if not more. Those games would probably seem like the face of the site for some people at this point.)

So there /is/ the glaring issue of heavy internal bias, and banning outside voters without changing the front page popularity system would all but guarantee the same pattern of one game winning everything forever. It's just a question of which game would get that privilege.

author=Liberty
We did think of a 3 game rule where a game could only be nominated for three topics tops. The thing is coming up with a way for it to be automated within the site.

That was most of the issues really. And not coming up with a definite plan. ^.^;



As to the above? Not to me. There are people who have been on the site for a long time and have 0 MS because they just don't bother contributing, yet play a lot of games. Also, it's not fair to lock people out from voting just because they aren't from RMN. We're not an exclusive site, guys. Granted, it is frustrating to see a crowd of people descend and vote but then leave. Maybe some stay, maybe they feel upset to hear that people think their votes shouldn't count.

I mean, if we're really down for excluding, we should only allow votes that are tied to a download from the game in question.

The download-vote idea sounds nice in theory! But I think it might fall flat cuz it would only apply to people planning to play it during misaos season and locks out the people who's played and enjoyed the game earlier in the year (unless you wanna keep nominations open all year, haha)

I wonder if there can be a gamejolt-like system where like, games on the site can have features synced with user accounts?