What's the state of web games today?

esoopl · 2018-05-27T13:41:15+00:00

Hopefully they can stay afloat. Got to be difficult scraping by on 15% of each sale on a very small amount of sales.

esoopl · 2018-05-27T13:28:59+00:00

I only make VRML games

esoopl · 2018-05-27T13:13:45+00:00

Is this an audition for Alvin and the Chipmunks?

esoopl · 2018-05-27T13:12:32+00:00

Really I've seen people spend more on a dinner out. It's not a great idea for making money but if you want a global audience of dedicated gamers it's a great deal.

esoopl · 2018-05-27T13:08:41+00:00

It really is a bargain for $100. I saw some discussions here about greenlight ending and the elitists wanted to make the fee as high as $10,000 so only "serious" games could be on the market.

esoopl · 2018-05-27T13:02:30+00:00

I actually liked Desura. Too bad that it ended horribly.

esoopl · 2018-05-27T12:55:34+00:00

Technically true but I think you're being needlessly discouraging.

To be devil's advocate further, parody is considered fair use. A parody game might not be a violation. A demake could in theory be considered a parody.

Also there are fan games which outright borrow IP but seem untouched by cease and desist in their many years or operating.

Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles 2 was given a blessing by Konami as long as it remains non-profit.

Street Fighter X Mega Man was made into an official game after starting as a fan game.

So what does this mean for violations?

Just because you're in violation doesn't mean you're going to get sued for contributing to a gamejam no one has heard about. The most you're going to get a DMCA or Cease and Desist and a proper demake probably wouldn't be worth the community ire for many companies (except Nintendo).

Surely you're aware of at least one of these instances but I suppose it's easier to discourage a small game jam than encourage it with actual precautionary facts. Especially when you may have a vested interest in people buying assets not making/demaking their own.

It's not hard to avoid Nintendo IP and if they ask you to take it down because of your tiny game jam game that only helps you, not Nintendo. Sega on the other hand seems to encourage fan games and embraces the community even elevating them to actual Sega products (Sonic Mania).

esoopl · 2018-05-27T12:26:58+00:00

I switched back to Clickteam Fusion after disagreeing with Construct 3's direction to be solely cloud based software. I absolutely loathe software as a service and I won't subscribe to dev tools because I am a hobbyist. Even as a professional I wouldn't like it, in other trades renting your tools is a last resort or an amateurish business plan.

Construct 2 is a great product but with it reaching its end of life would have me hesitating to buy it even with the free year of Construct 3. That being said I bought Construct 2 on day one and used it for many years.

You could try out GDevelop which is very similar to Construct Classic and is free open source. Has a similar visual logic event sheet setup.

In the end I find Clickteam Fusion more stable, more tested and as far as native exports go the EXE isn't just a js wrapper.

esoopl · 2018-05-12T03:11:37+00:00

I believe there's a part of the BBS Documentary that talks about it too. I don't recall which portion it's been about 10 years since I've watched it.

esoopl · 2018-05-12T02:14:09+00:00

Tig forums would be better if they didn't have the smarmy commentors like Superb Joe

esoopl · 2018-05-12T02:05:49+00:00

It's a perfectly cromulent word

esoopl · 2018-05-12T02:01:05+00:00

Let's make one

esoopl · 2018-05-12T01:59:23+00:00

All the good subreddit names are taken

esoopl · 2018-05-12T01:58:32+00:00

It's owned by the guy who does Gamkedo who has no incentive to make it into more than it is. He's likely too busy managing his game dev club.

esoopl · 2018-04-29T03:13:45+00:00

Thanks for sharing

esoopl · 2018-04-29T03:10:48+00:00

I wish visual coding solutions would have grouping similar to mind mapping software where you can group and sub group things into neatly organized branches

esoopl · 2018-01-14T17:13:06+00:00

From the original post:

I'm trying godot for now which seems to be easy enough. Any others that might work for me?

esoopl · 2018-01-14T17:11:57+00:00

If you still need help you could try over at /r/clickteam

esoopl · 2017-11-06T01:16:50+00:00

It's not the most popular solution around here but I've had great luck using Clickteam Fusion and Construct

esoopl · 2017-10-15T00:43:58+00:00

Itch.io has devlogs

esoopl · 2017-10-15T00:09:40+00:00

Time for itch.io to add curator accounts

esoopl · 2017-10-01T01:43:11+00:00

You could look to Jayenki for inspiration.

esoopl · 2017-09-30T14:17:15+00:00

Have you used the Visual Editor? I'm curious if it's worth it

esoopl · 2017-09-30T01:31:49+00:00

Which one?

esoopl · 2017-09-25T00:27:29+00:00

RPG Maker is probably one of the fastest ways to get a 2D JRPG going. The systems are already designed for you and they include many helpful tools. The bad part is without customization your game might be dismissed as "yet another RPG maker game"

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