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Play Something! Day III [February 4th, 2009]
OK, I'll gladly be the first to officially sign up. :D
My idea is to review AT LEAST 1 per week. I'll go ahead and get started with Forlorn Manor, since I had already started playing it. I'll take requests for reviews if you PM them to me. I'll also start a new thread to ask for requests as well as update everyone on my progress.
I promise to give any requests I receive fair consideration based on time constraints (after all I only have until Feb 4th!), whether or not I have played it before (I'll give preference to the ones I haven't played!). Otherwise, once I am finished playing and reviewing one, I will go ahead and choose another from the RMN database.
Last but not least, I hope to give fair and thorough reviews of everything I play, so please don't be offended >:( by any criticism, but take it constructively and use it to improve your game if you believe any of my comments merits any consideration. I will also praise ;) anything worthy of it, so that your good work can be continued.
My idea is to review AT LEAST 1 per week. I'll go ahead and get started with Forlorn Manor, since I had already started playing it. I'll take requests for reviews if you PM them to me. I'll also start a new thread to ask for requests as well as update everyone on my progress.
I promise to give any requests I receive fair consideration based on time constraints (after all I only have until Feb 4th!), whether or not I have played it before (I'll give preference to the ones I haven't played!). Otherwise, once I am finished playing and reviewing one, I will go ahead and choose another from the RMN database.
Last but not least, I hope to give fair and thorough reviews of everything I play, so please don't be offended >:( by any criticism, but take it constructively and use it to improve your game if you believe any of my comments merits any consideration. I will also praise ;) anything worthy of it, so that your good work can be continued.
Love and War: Act I
The Act 2 demo's out:
http://www.antiochforever.com/law/downloads/Law2-DEMO.zip
I played it along with LAW 1. If you like Act I, you should also enjoy the demo!
http://www.antiochforever.com/law/downloads/Law2-DEMO.zip
I played it along with LAW 1. If you like Act I, you should also enjoy the demo!
So, What are Misaos?
Actually, it seems to me that before being hosted by RMN, it was hosted starting on 2002 on the Queen's Court website (of iishenron, one of the RMN community members):
http://queenscourt.org/misao/
For some reason that somebody might want to expand on, for the 2006 Misaos, there are list of winners on both RMN and Queen's Court (check the "5th Annual Misao Awards" link) that have slightly different categories as well as winners. For the 2007 Awards, RMN became the sole host. You can get an idea of the mechanics that are involved in selecting categories, candidates and winners you can look at those ones that were set for 2007:
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68257.0
Finally, for the makers of the games, winning or even being nominated for a Misao is a good way of gaining recognition within the community for their work and also to let gameplayers know of games for their excellence. You'll notice that some of the nominees and winners for the 2006 and 2007 Misaos are not necessarily listed on RMN, but are mentioned on its forums or those described by kentona.
Hope this helps!
http://queenscourt.org/misao/
For some reason that somebody might want to expand on, for the 2006 Misaos, there are list of winners on both RMN and Queen's Court (check the "5th Annual Misao Awards" link) that have slightly different categories as well as winners. For the 2007 Awards, RMN became the sole host. You can get an idea of the mechanics that are involved in selecting categories, candidates and winners you can look at those ones that were set for 2007:
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68257.0
Finally, for the makers of the games, winning or even being nominated for a Misao is a good way of gaining recognition within the community for their work and also to let gameplayers know of games for their excellence. You'll notice that some of the nominees and winners for the 2006 and 2007 Misaos are not necessarily listed on RMN, but are mentioned on its forums or those described by kentona.
Hope this helps!
That Fine Line
TJ, I have come accross an "Invalid Event" bug in TFL that occurs when Grover is talking about Royal 13, right after fighting the Cave dragon, right aftermentioning the fighter and Valencous. The game just crashes with that message! Please let me know how to get around it. Thanks!
1873
CP, I have already sent you a message regarding Day 1. Please let me know when you have received it! I am ready to do the same for Day 2 ...
1873
Tried the new demo today. I did find in the first day, that my enemies used medicine to heal a lot, but that didn't prevent me from advancing, as others might have found. I guess you took the advice of your critics in the forum and had them "reloading" instead in the second day, which made the fights are LOT easier. Another second day annoyance was that the shootouts with the 3 riflemen didn't give any points nor any other reward. I was never able to use the "roulette" skill during battle because it was never available in the menu! I was able to get through and defeat the boss at the end of the 2nd day.May I suggest that your characters eventually participate in a some shooting games or tournament, which, for example, would award them a better weapon? I hope you can keep up the good work so that you can ... fill up the 365 days of the 1873 calendar, eventually!
Games released so far in 2008
author=suzuricho link=topic=2307.msg40185#msg40185 date=1225145526
Do demos count for Misaos, or no?
Suzuricho, as far as I can tell demos are eligible for the Misaos as long as somebody other than you (the author) nominates yours for one.
You can read this post to get an idea of what the logistics of the nominations and voting were for them in 2007:
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68257.0
Your game, Odyssey in Suri Islands, is a demo that includes only Chapter 1, right? It could be nominated for any category of the Misaos, except, of course, "Best Complete Game".
author=Craze link=topic=2307.msg40164#msg40164 date=1225134024
Versus Xerza and Epic Monster Dungeon Explore. Versus Xerza was actually on the 26th of December, but whatever.
Craze, regarding the cutoff date for, according the 2007 Misaos nominated entries page :
Game-related entries must only be for 2007 ...So I guess it would depend on whether whoever is in charge of this year´s effort will allow your game to be considered a nominee if somebody happens nominate yours for any category, since it wasn´t technically released on the 2008 calendar year.
Based on the hyperlink I posted in my reply to suzuricho regarding the 2007 Misaos, it seems that the actual Game Nominations for the categories took place of January 21 and 22. That would have given you about 25 days for people visiting RMN and wherever else you advertised your game to play it, like or dislike it enough to nominate it for a 2007 Misao. Whether that was enough time for consideration is debatable. I guess the ~2 hours of playtime you mentioned in your game description would have to be taken into account into this decision.
It seems to me that if the "calendar year" rule were strictly enforced for the Misaos, many of you authors (I confess that I only play your games!) would probably decide to wait until next year to release a new game to be considered for them, instead of releasing it the year before, given that it does take all of you a good amount of time and effort to develop them. I think that releasing games, whether complete, demo or even chapters or arcs, SHOULD be done once they are ready and shouldn´t be artificially delayed by something like the Misaos. What are ALL (by this, I mean you GAME AUTHORS!) of your thoughts regarding this particular issue?
author=ChaosProductions link=topic=2307.msg40245#msg40245 date=1225151364ChaosProductions, see my Suzuricho reply to get an answer related to your release demo. I guess it could skip this year´s Misaos if nobody happens to nominate it. I would think that if your demo´s good (I promise I´ll try that for myself soon!), somebody will nominate it to acknowledge its contribution this rpgmaking community. I wonder if anybody in the past has actually DECLINED a nomination for the Misaos? ??? Not likely, I would say!
I don't think 1873 will be complete until '09, so can it skip this year's misaos? Or is it eligible for this and next year? Or what?
Your complete version, if released in ´09, can be considered eligible AGAIN, except this time around it could be nominated for the "Best Complete Game". From the past Misaos, it seems unlikely that if your demo is nominated for any category, that your complete version would be renominated for it, but I guess its up to those doing the nominations.
I hope all of you see why having a game list of releases would be helpful! I also hope this long and booo...ring reply ::) helps answer your concerns and gives you my particular insights, especially, for those 1st time Misao nominee hopefuls! Good luck to all in advance and keep up the good work! :)
Search within Forums
Thanks for your replies, WIP and Chaos Productions. I guess it makes sense that somebody else misses Search.
Since both of you mention RMN3 (which I finally get will be a redesign of RMN, right?), I wanted to find out its current status:
This forum topic hasn't been updated in a while, so I seem to be a bit out of the loop regarding RMN3:
http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=1804.0
Since both of you mention RMN3 (which I finally get will be a redesign of RMN, right?), I wanted to find out its current status:
This forum topic hasn't been updated in a while, so I seem to be a bit out of the loop regarding RMN3:
http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=1804.0
Search within Forums
While I do enjoy the RMN forums, how come it isn't included as a Search option in the menu above? I have seen other forums that even have an advanced function to search, for example, only within a category. Just an observation which I hope will lead someone to make this tool available for all of us to use. I wonder if anybody else misses not having it ...
Games released so far in 2008
I realize it might a little bit early to start thinking for the 2008 Misaos. :) However to give every release a fair consideration (meaning I will actually try them all :o if I can actually download them, if I haven't begun or finished them!) for the different categories I was wondering if somebody could assemble a list of the games released so far this year that could be considered for them.
I guess it would something similar to this master list posted way back when this forum came to life (in fact it is the 5th oldest post!, not counting any that were updated that were posted earlier)
http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=22.0
Judging from the list of nominees to the 2007 Misaos, I should mention that there are many good games that were not listed on this site that I wouldn't have known about otherwise and enjoyed playing such as Last Scenario, Memento Viviere, Quintessence: The Blighted Venom ... not so Rise of the Third Power, which I also tried (the version I was able to download had some serious flaws that made it virtually unplayable!) :P
Anyway I might be getting starting to get off topic ;D but I appreciate the effort in compiling the list. Hopefully this year's crop will yield also new undiscovered (at least by me) gems! ;)
Obviously, there is still a couple of month's of releases, so this list can be updated as needed. 8)
I guess it would something similar to this master list posted way back when this forum came to life (in fact it is the 5th oldest post!, not counting any that were updated that were posted earlier)
http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=22.0
Judging from the list of nominees to the 2007 Misaos, I should mention that there are many good games that were not listed on this site that I wouldn't have known about otherwise and enjoyed playing such as Last Scenario, Memento Viviere, Quintessence: The Blighted Venom ... not so Rise of the Third Power, which I also tried (the version I was able to download had some serious flaws that made it virtually unplayable!) :P
Anyway I might be getting starting to get off topic ;D but I appreciate the effort in compiling the list. Hopefully this year's crop will yield also new undiscovered (at least by me) gems! ;)
Obviously, there is still a couple of month's of releases, so this list can be updated as needed. 8)
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