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Sounds like Time Traveller's Wife meets Saruman, which also sounds like fun.

Hehehe. :)

Sorry that isn't a very informative post, but I'm glad to see the contributions being put to good use.

Also I'm not sure if it isn't being just a little disingenuous. Makerscore isn't an indication of respect, respect is given to content. Yes there is a correlation between submissions and MS and more submissions do tend to indicate content, but just because someone can write a script or even a game, that does not automatically confer respect from the community. Nor should it, there are some badly written games and worse yet some game makers that react with ill humour and sometimes vulgarity to comments made about them, that reaction does not reduce their MS, but it does reduce the amount of respect given. There are members of this community to whom I listen but not because of their MS, because they are helpful, interesting, open-minded and honest. Qualities I look for in the real world, that garners respect, not an arbitrary number under a user-name.

Well as far as the other indie sites goes, yes of course. I mean RMN is supportive and collaborative but it is by no means exclusive. If indeed you do wish to go down the commercial route then having your games known in more than one place is essential.

As to whether or not you've got what it takes, only you can answer that. I can say that I've enjoyed your game more than some I have paid for, but that is only one opinion. You would also need to consider the monetary outlay you would have to make for certain aspects of your games. You're a visual artist so you could quite easily create the required artwork, but in Enelysion for example you've used known musical artists without paying royalties for their work, that would be an impossibility in any future commercial endeavours. I don't doubt you could find royalty free works with some effort, but it is something to consider. Though you could always fund it via crowd-sourcing, as has become the fashion.

Perhaps you should have a talk with some of the members of the community who have made the switch, or at least produced a commercial game after the success of free ones. Artbane & Volrath come immediately to mind, given the cult success of MotW and now their commercial venture. Though I am happy to say they are not exclusively commercial, with the prequel to MotW being a free game currently in production.

author=emmych
see these are the kinds of design decisions I support with all my being #MoreGoofyThingsInSeriousThings2k14

Now that's a hashtag I can get behind.