You know what? I've just been inspired. I'm making what i think has the potential to become a good (good looking at least) game with 100% custom graphics but the music is stolen from other games. Maybe i will stop being a G&D biggot... Maybe i will be reach out and look for someone who might have the musical talent I desire. and maybe i will decide to become more of a "C" type of forum troll. Nice speech. Be well GWers.

This is good to hear - there are a lot of good composers on here. Nothing is worse than going into a custom game and hearing CHRONOTRIGGER.MIDI or XENOSAGA.MP3 to snap you out of any enjoyment.

we gotta get this message out there
and save gw

you know mog didn't handle this the best way but its not like the sentiment is particularly stupid.

let's elaborate on some collaborations here

i think gw needs a national anthem to raise our morale and solidify us as a unit

we should. the anthem could solidify us as a unit..

we could be known as the gamingw unit.. or for short...

g-unit

 That is a very astute observation The Magi! Hopefully by being positive and trying our best we will attract such noble spirits to our cause once more.

This is nice and all but I don't see why do you people care so much about the other gwers. If they only want to visit g&d then let them, most of the users are somewhat adults now so they can decide whether they would fit in the rest of gw or not.  I am one of those g&d guys, but I read the entire forum and post every now and then in general or something but it's just not cool. Every time I post there there are like 4-5 different users who tell me that I am a horrible human being, the worst person on Earth and that I should castrate myself for the sake of mankind's future. This might be true, I probably have the morals of a dick, but telling me this every time isn't exactly helping the conversation!

So, I don't know, maybe if you guys stop internet-humiliating people who aren't part of your 10-15 man gw VIP club  they would have more interest in joining you? (I'm not talking about myself now, I see this every time with new users )

Not into making games anymore? But you still play them, right?

Yes, ones made by professional developers.


99/100 amateur games are so. fucking. bad.

I mean a lot of professional games are bad too but the ratio is of playable to laughable is a little better.

I don't think that is actually true. Most finished amateur games aren't really that bad at all.
Id even say that most are pretty good. I think people get the feeling that most rpgs made here are bad because they remember their own first attempts at RPGs, and how much they sucked (everyone's first attempt does), and seeing so many projects that never get finished and look like they'd suck anyways...
But truth is, usually when a project does get finished, its NOT the author's "first attempt" at all anymore. Usually the author started half a dozen projects before this one, just like you did ages ago. And this one is that one game he thought was good enough to finish up, and he wants people to play it. But sadly, no one does, because they all assume he just started out, and that the game will blow ass.

I admit I have a very hard time getting myself to play any game here thats a RPG, because I tend to assume they'll have some horribly awkward dialogue and boring button mashing battles and horribly stereotypical story... Even though I know that I am most probably wrong about most of them.
Also the G&D lingo sort of irritates me, you know like, CBS and CMS and stuff. It makes these "FEATURE LISTS" seem very silly, as if a game's enjoyability depended on whether or not the menus are different.

Another problem might be the very nature of RPGs, and how it doesn't fit the sheer amount of them submitted.
I mean, RPGs tend to be games that are pretty long and take a bit of immersion. And there are so much of them sent. If people focused on more arcade-ey games that can be enjoyed in a shorter time frame, it would be so much better. Naturally, we cant just like manipulate the population to gear themselves away from RPGs, that would be silly. But still, I think its part of the problem of why lots of people here dont feel interested in the G&D forum.

hold on one sec, I'm going to delete some posts.

Hey uh, how about you take your passive-aggressive sarcastic little dickheaded ))) comments and keep them on that circle-jerk of an IRC channel you guys have going instead of trying to shit up a topic made by someone who, unlike most/all of you, is actually trying to do ANYTHING AT ALL to remedy the current situation besides aimlessly complaining?  Thanks.

yeah I deleted all these posts. you guys are pretty patently awful and everyone knows by now that the majority of you sit around #G&D chortling while you huff a sack of cheetos. I know you're going to say THOSE WERE SERIOUS POSTS GUY but guess what, considering how often you guys like to troll people in these kinds of topics, especially Mog, you're full of shit anyways!

I know I'm running the risk of G&Ders getting offended but I seriously don't want to hear from some of you when all you have ever contributed is im just making fun of mog dont mind me because it got old a while ago. you're not funny and as far as INTERNET goes (meaning a very low bar to begin with), you're wholely irrelevant.

none of the above applies to those who gave honest criticism, you guys are doing fine.

now the topic is being unlocked lets see if you can get along.

Well, it's a nice article. The idea is good anyway, but I'm not sure how effective a wall of text is in encouraging people to do the things you suggest. Still better than doing nothing about it though, so you get points for that.

Hint: people like pictures in blog posts

Yeah, it's a fine article Mog, but for people to take more interest, you should do as RPG suggested and upload some screenshots of the games you posted.

That's why people go into ADVERTs... for the screenshots.

Another thing I'd like to suggest is to post another game that isn't a scrolling spaceship shooter (or whatever you call them) like Ad Nauseum and U.S.G., which are both great, for the record. Here are some others I can suggest to you, Mog:

Final Fantasy High - This looks interesting and you should have at least one RPG up there, I think. A lot of people like RPG's.

Yume Nikki - This game already seems to have a small following.

World of Danger - Looks epic... 700MB, though. Not for me!

Renewtion - G..G...GGZ!

I hope someone gets a great idea so people would wholeheartedly participate in community cocllabs