There are times when things are attributed to you as an author, but since they weren't uploaded by you, they don't show up as one of your submissions and aren't linked anywhere in your profile. I would really, really like for that to change so that when looking at someone's profile you can see all their work. For example, some of my art was uploaded by William.Thompsonj, and I'm a co-contributor to an RPG Enemies collection by Redshrike, but none of those show up anywhere when you click on my name.
Yup, my family were Atari people until PC's had decent graphics and Windows was a thing. The Atari's weren't really the same as a console, the ST had a GUI and even on the older cartridge Ataris you could write your own code and save them onto floppies with a peripheral. My dad used to write us games or hack existing ones to say silly stuff. Maybe the internals couldn't be swapped out as much, but all the periphrals could and they were open to competition. Just like you wouldn't say todays Macs are the same as a console I suppose. Although upgrading the core components was less of a big deal back then, the changes were less frequent and less impressive so upgrading didn't need to happen as often.
Still, I distictly remember some of those EGA games coming out brand new, even after we had a PC, with no option to set it to a proper SVGA color profile. You'd have to switch the entire display to the smaller, lower color resolution to get the games to run at all. My cousin was able to go around playing games with higher color count with a gameing console that fit in his backpack (he had a Lynx). Why couldn't they make all the brand new games with all the colors? I get it now, I'm an adult and I get how hardware limitations and compatability work, but it just felt very backwards to me back then. The ST had better colors and we hadn't used that computer in years.
I'm with you, making a bad palette look good takes lots of skill, Keen was awesome, and I have nostalgia too. But it's still a terrible palette.
So, I think part of this is going to come down to what the laws are. Over at the RPG Maker forums, which I moderate for, they have to keep things at PG-13 because they're a business, and there are some very specific laws about distributing things of a pornographic nature. I do know that these laws aren't as big of a deal for privately run sites, like this one is, but I think there's an element of what amount of risk Bart wants to take, since I'm pretty sure he'd be liable if something went south.
Everything here is pretty PG-13 right now and I prefer it that way. It makes things useable for the widest range of people. If we start catering to those who want to post things of a more extreeme nature, we're going to be turning off some of the people who like to come here with a more conservative preference. Maybe it would draw in more people who are interested in that sort of thing, but that would change the nature of the site. I'm not for it. I would feel the need to quit following the site to limit my own exposure.
I'm open to hearing other sides of the issue though, I'd love to know what your guidelines would be. Maybe it could be done in a way where we wouldn't be alienating anyone.
I was under the impression that it has to pass in two more places before it could go into effect anyway.
There are times when things are attributed to you as an author, but since they weren't uploaded by you, they don't show up as one of your submissions and aren't linked anywhere in your profile. I would really, really like for that to change so that when looking at someone's profile you can see all their work. For example, some of my art was uploaded by William.Thompsonj, and I'm a co-contributor to an RPG Enemies collection by Redshrike, but none of those show up anywhere when you click on my name.
Oooh. I love the colors and smoothness.
Yup, my family were Atari people until PC's had decent graphics and Windows was a thing. The Atari's weren't really the same as a console, the ST had a GUI and even on the older cartridge Ataris you could write your own code and save them onto floppies with a peripheral. My dad used to write us games or hack existing ones to say silly stuff. Maybe the internals couldn't be swapped out as much, but all the periphrals could and they were open to competition. Just like you wouldn't say todays Macs are the same as a console I suppose. Although upgrading the core components was less of a big deal back then, the changes were less frequent and less impressive so upgrading didn't need to happen as often.
Still, I distictly remember some of those EGA games coming out brand new, even after we had a PC, with no option to set it to a proper SVGA color profile. You'd have to switch the entire display to the smaller, lower color resolution to get the games to run at all. My cousin was able to go around playing games with higher color count with a gameing console that fit in his backpack (he had a Lynx). Why couldn't they make all the brand new games with all the colors? I get it now, I'm an adult and I get how hardware limitations and compatability work, but it just felt very backwards to me back then. The ST had better colors and we hadn't used that computer in years.
I'm with you, making a bad palette look good takes lots of skill, Keen was awesome, and I have nostalgia too. But it's still a terrible palette.
*shrugs* In my mind if you make artwork, you get credit, end of story. Don't sell yourself short.
Nice expansion! But hey, your credit information is wrong! It's missing your name!
Thank you!
There's a dragonbones plugin for RPG Maker MV so it's been getting some attention there.
So, I think part of this is going to come down to what the laws are. Over at the RPG Maker forums, which I moderate for, they have to keep things at PG-13 because they're a business, and there are some very specific laws about distributing things of a pornographic nature. I do know that these laws aren't as big of a deal for privately run sites, like this one is, but I think there's an element of what amount of risk Bart wants to take, since I'm pretty sure he'd be liable if something went south.
Everything here is pretty PG-13 right now and I prefer it that way. It makes things useable for the widest range of people. If we start catering to those who want to post things of a more extreeme nature, we're going to be turning off some of the people who like to come here with a more conservative preference. Maybe it would draw in more people who are interested in that sort of thing, but that would change the nature of the site. I'm not for it. I would feel the need to quit following the site to limit my own exposure.
I'm open to hearing other sides of the issue though, I'd love to know what your guidelines would be. Maybe it could be done in a way where we wouldn't be alienating anyone.
I do have some, but not much. I was just barely starting on a beach area when time ran out. I'll have to see if I can find the files.
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