UBON'S PROFILE

but did you beat the secret boss, Perfect Tingle

ocarinas kind of suck

they're recorders but with a weaker sound

Okay, I'm going to turn my capital letters on for now because I have a serious question for everyone who's been talking about how this needs some quality control in place. Well, two questions, really:

First, why is it necessary? All the reasoning I've heard so far has been something along the lines of "it would upset me" or "some things don't deserve money" and, while I'm sure both of these are true in certain circumstances, they're not valid reasoning for this sort of thing. So why is it important that bad games don't get sold here, really? Bad games get hosted here all the time. If they're as bad as you say, then let people know with reviews and stuff like that and people will keep wisely away.

Second, and this one is important, how are you going to enforce it, and on what standards? You're all fine waving your hands and going "oh those bad games" right now when you don't have to name names, but can you put that to actual use if you need to? Can you know a bad game when you see it, and describe why in a way that can be applied in most situations in a nearly objective sense? What are your criteria? This isn't critique, where you can tailor things to what's in front of you -- this is an approval process, so you need to be specific and all-encompassing at the same time. Are any of you prepared to do that? Because, frankly, I don't think most of you can tell a bad game it's bad unless it's such an obvious joke that it's got bells on.

(Keep in mind that we already have slight quality control measures in place for submitted game pages, for the sake of making sure the page is fairly clear and gives a good amount of information. I believe that this is currently all that's necessary -- anything beyond that is so subjective and vague as to be practically unenforceable on a large scale.)

Thanks for your time.

dwarf fortress is a bizarre fringe case that filled a niche no one even knew existed before then. it is entirely incomparable to anything produced here, and in fact taking any aspect of its development or history as indicative of game development in general is pointless and tenuous at best.

it's a statistical outlier that happened mostly by accident. you can't compare it to the process most games go through, because very little of what happened with dwarf fortress actually makes sense.

he want to create something that is good for majority, he won't risk, he will repeat what was successful, i think its opposite of what RMN is.

to be honest with you I think that's exactly what the rpg maker community is like.

donation stuff is pretty heavily reliant on that game being an immense cult hit

like, dwarf fortress has a huge and super weird fanbase and that's the only reason it works for it

a donation option is something I'd been planning for my first couple of games just because I don't want to charge for them but I'd like to see where people price my work all the same, but

that's more out of curiosity than anything else. I'm not under the impression that it'll mean huge profits, and I wouldn't be looking to it as a serious funding method if for instance I had sunk any more money into this or didn't already have a job