THENECROMANCER'S PROFILE

Submitted to the event page with 4 minutes to spare!

I didn't get to fully test everything right up to the end. Even knowing where to go it takes me more than 20 minutes to do everything. I came across some last minute game breaking bugs and put in a fix, but the fix is untested xD and all the code I put in during this extension is untested. I don't have high hopes for that.

I promise there are 10 side quests and you can finish the main quest and get a game over. But you managing to get there is another story.

I will write up a little help file you will probably want to use while you are playing. I didn't get to do the in game quest log, so you will need a list of items to get for one quest. Plus some other pieces of information you might want.

But first, I need to get up out of my chair. I haven't really moved much in the last 5 hours x.x

FUCK another extension? *sits back down*

1 hour left and I'm rushing to get the final 4 quests coded! I need a Patriots miracle.

author=Red_Nova
Either way, I think they are necessary additions for developers in varying degrees of obviousness. There were (and still are) plenty of people with absolutely no interest in making games themselves that are just as vital to the development process. Testers, reviewers, let's players, and even casual players all contribute by providing feedback for games in various ways. Removing even the casual forums would be a huge block for those types of people, which in turn would mean less feedback for developers, which I think goes directly against RMN's goal.

Obviously I'm not saying that forums are for players only and not devs, but that reason alone makes them worth keeping, in my opinion.

Thing is, if you were to remove the forums, it doesn't mean that kind of activity needs to stop. It would simply move to a better place, on the gamepage. Testers and reviewers and let's players don't NEED the forums to communicate with the devs. The gamepages are designed to cover all that. At the bottom of every game page...is a forum thread! The forums migrated a good portion of that discussion from the gamepages to the forums, which means less page views and activity on the gamepages. People spend their time browsing the forums instead of browsing the gamepages.

If someone wants a tester/review/LP, they can post a blog. Then those people looking for "work" can browse the blog area to find out the pulse of the community. Instead of browsing the forums, which is a shit show most of the time. You have to weed out all the bullshit and nonsense to find actual game content. Right now if a person made a blog asking for help, it would likely not get as much attention as posting in a forum topic asking for the same thing. That is because the active members are used to finding that kind thing in the forums.

As far as advertising and getting yourself known, it's no different for someone to find your gamepage as opposed to finding your post or topic among the many that are there. With gamepages, a person can search for specific things that interest them. They can search by engine or genre and get an instant visual idea of what the game is.

On the forums you might post in the screenshot thread and for a short period of time maybe 10+ people will see it, then it's lost into the obsurity of xxx amount of pages in the screenshot thread. Nobody is going to see my screenshot thread post from a year ago and find my game. But those same people would have a significantly higher chance of coming across my gamepage I submitted a year ago, followed up with seeing all the content I've ever posted to the site which is in the gamepage. Not scattered across the galaxy that is the forums.

The site is actually designed around the idea of gamepages. You can subscribe and get notices for all activity on the gamepages. You can fully customize it and have different areas for different kinds of content. That was the core design of RMN. The forums dilute that to a degree and additions have been made to the forums to make them act more like gamepages, in that you can subscribe and get notices for them too. And now we've got statuses, which have 0 use other than saying pointless crap, further diluting the gamepage activity.

And Corf is off his rocker. It's interesting how he's the only person(or at least one of the few) complaining and he's one of the few active members to have been banned. He's the Trump of RMN, in that he sees bias and issues everywhere when they don't really exist. "The misaos are rigged". Next thing he'll be suggesting we build a wall along the gamepage/forum border and get users to donate to pay for it.

author=Link_2112
So, are there any actual rewards for this event?

Also, when we submit through this event page, is that instant? So as long as I click that submit button and add my game 5 minutes before the deadline, I'm safe?

Would still like answers to these questions.