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Gameplay & Discussion / Re: Serious fangame making questions
« on: November 25, 2016, 02:11:13 PM »
How much appreciation and support (if any) do fangame creators deserve, and are they currently getting enough?

I don't think that fangame creators are entitled to an abundance of appreciation or support. People (hopefully) make fangames because they have fun doing so, or because they like watching people play their creation. I've never made fangames so that people would be thankful for it and I personally don't believe it's a super productive motivation but I also think it's fine if anyone sees it as such.

Is it okay to heavily criticize people’s fangames that they made on their own time for everyone to enjoy?

Yes. I don't see a good reason why you shouldn't be allowed to point out things that you dislike, even  if your opinion is bad you should be allowed to voice it. As I said, people hopefully make fangames because they have fun with it so it's not like they're sacrificing themselves for the greater good. Following statement pretty much applies to all points so I will only say it this once. If you spend a lot of time making fangames and continue doing so despite not having fun with it then I think of you as an idiot.

How much patience and forgiveness (if any) should fangame streamers and players be expected to have?

None. Players play games to have fun, if they're not having fun they shouldn't be expected to sit through it.

What is the right balance of encouraging quality fangames while not scaring off potentially good creators?

This self balances itself in my opinion. Higher quality fangames will on average have a higher likelihood of being played more and thus getting more exposure. (Naturally there are plenty of exceptions and other factors.) People will still play less polished games a lot, so I don't see a reason to do anything about it.

To what extent can you be proud of a fangame that heavily uses other people’s content? (spook jam, medleys, and in general using music+sprites+sounds made by others)

This completely depends on what you're proud of. Personally all I'm proud of in my games (and only a few of them but I won't go into that here) is my platforming design, which I created solely on my own. If you're proud of how your game looks then it depends on how much work you have put into those looks yourself. This can be said for all other points as well.

Is it okay to use the self-made assets of other people’s fangames?

Strictly speaking no, unless you have permission. This is really not something I care about though.

To what extent (if any) are quality fangames not getting attention they deserve?

If you judge solely by how "good" a game is then a lot of games get more attention than they deserve and a lot of games get less attention than they deserve, this applies to pretty much anything in every field. It sucks but it's nothing we can change or should change.

To what extent (if any) are fangame creators limiting their creative growth as opposed to making freeware games for a bigger, more general audience?

A lot and that's part of why I was able to spend so much time with fangames. I can always just sit down and grind some "5000 deaths per save" cancer needle knowing exactly what to expect. I know where to get what I want. I know I will get exactly what I want. I don't have to deal with looking through immeasurable amounts of different concepts, genres, physics, etc to find just what I'm comfortable with, I can just chill out, turn off my brain, go to the wiki, download a game with the word needle in it and in 95% of the cases I don't have to deal with anything new that I have to wrap my head around.

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Game Design / Re: I Wanna Be The Dreamer [Devolopment]
« on: March 25, 2016, 02:07:19 PM »
I'll try this nicely just once.
Let me teach you about pronouns.
If you want to make a game then you should be the one to make the game. It will then be your game.
If someone else makes a game, then it is their game. (mind that their stands for his or her in this case.)
If multiple people work on one game, then the game as a whole is theirs. (here it stands for multiple people)
If you have other people make "your" game for you, it is not yours but theirs.
So if you want to make a game, then make it. If you want to play games by other people, there are tons of them out there already and tons are being produced. If you want to make a game together with someone, find someone you like and who is willing to make a game with you, not for you. That means both of you will be working on the game.

Now in the thread you only asked for ideas, but it's not a secret you have been asking people to essentially make games for you. (Plus if you don't have ideas you probably shouldn't make a game anyway)

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Game Design / Re: YoSniper's Fangame Contest 2015 *NOW ACCEPTING*
« on: June 12, 2015, 04:32:12 PM »
I will have to drop out
I'm sorry, I just have a lot of school stuff going on right and and stuff.

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Game Design / Re: YoSniper's Fangame Contest 2015 *READY SET GO!*
« on: May 01, 2015, 08:31:25 PM »
I'm in too

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Game Design / Re: YoSniper's Fangame Contest 2015 *PRELIMINARY*
« on: December 24, 2014, 12:26:30 AM »
I'm def gonna be in this time around.

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Meet and Greet! / Re: Hi >.<
« on: October 26, 2014, 11:03:14 AM »
Hi Misaki

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Meet and Greet! / Re: Live streams
« on: October 21, 2014, 02:00:36 PM »
You seriously did it again?
I needed to point out that half of your "introduction" was stream advertisement, but no, you needed to make another post and instead of doing it better this time you had pretty much your whole post be about your stream, even the title being that. You're only making yourself sound dumb, and if even Rebag makes a sarcastic comment about it you should know you're waaaaaaaaay down in people's respect for you. Not that you weren't before.

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Gameplay & Discussion / Re: Western Fangame Rankings [W-Level]
« on: October 12, 2014, 07:23:12 PM »

I think I wanna beat the spikes series should be ranked (:Kappa:)

I actually do want to do this, just need some more opinions from everyone about what beat the spikes 1-final should be rated.

I would do the Rankings like this:

I wanna beat the Spikes(no extra): ~lv60
I wanna beat the Spikes 2(no extra): ~lv59
I wanna beat the Spikes 2(extra): ~lv63
I wanna beat the Spikes 3(no extra): ~lv63
I wanna beat the Spikes 4: ~lv86
I wanna beat the Spikes 5(no extra): ~lv87
I wanna beat the Spikes 6(with/without extra since the extra doesn't affect the difficulty really): lv90/91
I wanna beat the Spikes final: lv92

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Gameplay & Discussion / Re: Western Fangame Rankings [W-Level]
« on: October 10, 2014, 12:00:02 PM »

Lvl. 95: I Wanna be the TAS - Honestly the hardest thing in this game is the second stage and the boss. For me everything else (mostly stage 1, and I have played around with stage 3 some) has been a cakewalk for me. Plus, there is evidence of several people getting to the boss, although to my knowledge nobody

Just my 2 cents.

The reason TAS is rated 96 is the boss, why would you want to lower it if nobody's even beaten it? lol

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Gameplay & Discussion / Re: Western Fangame Rankings [W-Level]
« on: October 10, 2014, 11:55:00 AM »

Lv 94: I Wanna be the Crimson Needle - Denferok says this is harder than MMM. I might even give this a 95 if I was feeling cheeky.

I think he's referring to the platforming. While I haven't beaten it myself I would never put it that high. Seeing as how rukito area is 91 or 92, butterly nova is 92, gentle needle 91 and loner 90.
While I can't say anything about the fine tuning I'd def put it at 91-93 or something.

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First off you get into fangames a bit more deeply then

you learn more about game maker and how to use it before you take on a medley game.

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User-Made Creations / Re: I Wanna Get Rekt
« on: August 29, 2014, 08:26:41 PM »
Man, i was so hyped for this game really wanted to play it but even the second link doesnt work for me. There is always: Unexpected error occured when running the game. This is already the 3rd game i cant play beacuse of this. :atkCry: What did i do wrong?

Try using a different browser.

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Gameplay & Discussion / Re: Western Fangame Rankings [W-Level]
« on: August 16, 2014, 11:50:56 AM »
I think I wanna beat the spikes series should be ranked (:Kappa:)

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Meet and Greet! / Re: s u p
« on: August 01, 2014, 10:36:05 AM »
who are you again?

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The Lounge / Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« on: July 20, 2014, 09:00:30 AM »
This is how I see it:
The Kid is simply his name, the guy is a title he achieved by killing the former guy. And it's pretty usual that you refer to people by their name right? 

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