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i'm bad at video games

@vokainen099 @xianc78 idk what you're talking about with steam. steam back then required steam greenlight, so you had to have enough votes to actually get your game on the platform. sure, a lot of games squeaked by that were vaporware but i think for the most part they were at least decent quality with users who wanted to play them enough to greenlight them. i didn't have a steam account until 2015 though so i don't necessarily have a firsthand account of it.

i started with rpg maker in 2006, and there were a few different forums i would go on. of course i had no idea wtf i was doing and got a lot of shit for my horrible maps and games lol. but the more i learned the more i started helping out other people too and eventually i started making some scripts and stuff. if i actually had the drive to finish a full game i think there would have been a fair amount of people playing it back then in some of those more tight knit communities. now it's fuckin massive and a lot harder to get recognized, plus i haven't really been super involved with the community for the duration of my current game's development. not nearly as much as i was back then.

@xianc78 @vokainen099 it would also probably be easier to do it as a job if i wanted to make someone else's games instead of my own

@vokainen099 @xianc78 if you keep up with it then sure. but at least for me, even though i'd love to do it as a job it's always been a hobby that i just really like to participate in.

@vokainen099 @xianc78 you don't have to do that. there were places like indiedb and forums.

@xianc78 no idea how much rpg maker was back when i was a kid but i actually used a cracked version i found on a freewebs site lol. it was called "Postality Knights Edition" and i believe it was translated from the japanese release so that english users could use it before it came to the west.

there was also fps creator that i used when i was a teenager and had a slightly better computer haha. kind of fun.

the same company that made that, thegamecompany, made something called "3d game builder" or something like that. begged my parents for it because it was in one of those scholastic book fairs but they didn't want to get it for me xD very similar situation there.

i tried game maker a little bit but it didn't really jive with me. i also tried this thing called "adventure game maker" and it came bundled with a MIDI tracker. that was my introduction to creating digital music!

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@xianc78 idk about "successful" but i started using rpg maker on the family computer when i was 10 years old :)

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@Kagekokoro @arc I never really watched the live action poops. I don't recall many channel names either but I mostly watched SpongeBob ytp and a little bit of toy story.

@LukeAlmighty I still had a good time and I'll keep going back of course, it gives you double xp a lot so it's fine. Just thought it was kind of funny lol.