but... the dead can't talk. so as long as we keep talking we aren't dead.

So says you. Also I think GW losted lot of great and helpful members which is leeding to the slow decline.

This site Didn't Die, DDay did.

After All, He is A Dead Man Typing!!

am i.... richard pierson??

I always stopped at the coding part. always make different custom platformer graphics and stuff and have the setting and story worked out, but I can't code in gamemaker or flash for shit even with tutorials

Why wouldn't you team up with anyone then? Artists are always in high demand.

EDIT: Oh, I should also mention that part of the reason I think this site has gone a bit under the weather is because we haven't really been supporting any of the newer, more powerful makers. Newer versions of GameMaker provide significantly more flexibility than previous ones, and there is word of an entire rewrite for version 8 (??) I believe that should improve speeds considerably. There is also Construct on the rise, which imo we should look into adopting. Obviously this is a more complicated process than *makes construct subforum* but I think it would open up a lot of avenues; firstly because we could essentially be there from the start (it is still in beta, although I have been playing around with it and am VERY impressed) and it is using Python as a scripting language which might peak interest in the more experienced programmers as well as the uninitiated seeking to learn something like scripting but being disinterested in investing time in a 'dead' language.

This would require a serious push to get the ball rolling. The community has very little momentum and that tends to feed on itself as we become increasingly more stagnant despite I think deep down a lot of us still really like making games!

RPG making is dead. Long live the miss bimbo forums!

Well, since anyone working on Project X is sworn to absolute secrecy and to exercise extreme discretion in all posting practice (as a precaution),  of course it would seem like activity has gone down. There are so many people involved now that not even I know how deep the hole goes. I would say GW is in a state of hibernation.

Happy birthday richardpierson.

Yo mamma so fat she sat on a rainbow and skittles popped out

because people can't get past the name of the site and acknowledge that a mainsite will never appeal to the current memberbase if it is based around videogames

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the fact that RPGM2003 or whatever isn't used anymore doesn't explain a lack of activity in ART AND LITERATURE. i guess it'd explain a lack of new members but the recent trouble has been the oldies and goodies leaving, this has nothing to do with RPGMAKER either i'm pretty sure, it has to do with there being NOTHING HERE to keep people comming back. honestly each day there's 3 new posts in 4 old topics. that means you could check the site once a week and not miss much at all.

this has also ALWAYS been the case, the top 4 or so topics get the most activity because you don't have to scroll to see them. when there was 50 subforums each subforum had a top 5 topics so if you checked two subforums you doubled the sites activity (than if you had only checked one).

people getting older has nothing to do with it we still spend way too much time on the internet we're just spending less time on gamingw and more on FACEBOOK or DIGG or another forum or whatever else and it's not because those sites don't have content as lame as FINAL FANTASY CLONE on them.

furthermore i imagine there's going to be a bunch of people that only come here to post in topics about why the site is dying and to check updates in the steel topic. nobody comes to GW anymore because they thought of a hilarious mozart bust fanfiction to post in the Overrated composer topic

It's been like 10 years since RPG Maker started to get big. Since then it has become not-big. And RPG Maker is really what it's allll about

I blame bush

Magicbush that is.

We should rename this place BW for Boring World harharhar

The main site hasn't been updated like since March.
We don't do anything about non-RM and Latest RM engines as well which seems to have a very huge fan(?)base. We also don't have any content from the main site that will attract people like resources or the really nice articles/tutorials back in the old GW days.

There's no real events happening as well like in Art's art war or stuff like those.
We don't have the nice RMN feature of hosting someone's game.

So yeah.

I remembered that long tower pic we made we each contribute a piece of it.




this was my piece but now it's in bad taste.

Come to think of it, whatever happened to that quilt?