Re: RPG Maker and stuff
The weekly is pretty nice this time around with 370$ worth of software and games for $1 - $12.
dang this is a sweet bundle. Maybe having a non-trial version RPG maker will provoke me to make some games.
I was about to skip on this... Now, I'm not sure anymore. 
Dink pretty much helped me create the RPG's that I wanted to make during my teen years (don't we all want to create a computer game when we are teenagers). I really doubt if I'm ever going to use it. It is ridiculously cheap compared to the regular price though... Just a couple of days to make up my mind.
Dink pretty much helped me create the RPG's that I wanted to make during my teen years (don't we all want to create a computer game when we are teenagers). I really doubt if I'm ever going to use it. It is ridiculously cheap compared to the regular price though... Just a couple of days to make up my mind.
Are those RPGs in the bundle worth playing? Does anybody know?
The only one I've played is to the moon, which received quite stellar reviews. It's really an RPG telling the story about one character's life. It doesn't include any combat (as far as I've come anyway). I personally can't see why it got such stellar reviews, but I still believe it is a good buy if you're into story-telling RPGs. I enjoyed the part I played.
I don't know about any of the other ones.
I don't know about any of the other ones.
Are those RPGs in the bundle worth playing? Does anybody know?
*Ahem* Having spent my time on RPG Maker websites, I have seen both good and bad games of varying quality. Some of them, such as Once upon the End and The 'One Night Trilogy' are fairly well made non-commercial games (Though there are many more from varying RM programs, like XP, VX, VX Ace, et cetera...) that have made their mark on many people. Now, the commercial games usually have custom-made graphics and music, so it's not always using the default run-time package.
Generally speaking, I can see quite a few respectable authors, some who have gained a lot of acclaim from others who use RPG Maker, as well as outside of the RM community.
In short, I'd say that you'd get quite a few decent games from this, maybe a few real gems, plus some versions of RPG Maker, so I say if you want it and you have the cash, go for it.
*Ahem* Having spent my time on RPG Maker websites, I have seen both good and bad games of varying quality. Some of them, such as Once upon the End and The 'One Night Trilogy' are fairly well made non-commercial games (Though there are many more from varying RM programs, like XP, VX, VX Ace, et cetera...) that have made their mark on many people. Now, the commercial games usually have custom-made graphics and music, so it's not always using the default run-time package.
Generally speaking, I can see quite a few respectable authors, some who have gained a lot of acclaim from others who use RPG Maker, as well as outside of the RM community.
In short, I'd say that you'd get quite a few decent games from this, maybe a few real gems, plus some versions of RPG Maker, so I say if you want it and you have the cash, go for it.
I had $3.05 sitting around on a "gift" card, so I went ahead and added some more games to my backlog that I'll never get around to because I'm always playing DMODs 
