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On the 'split' in RaNGE regarding non-Touhou fan games
Delfigamer:
Was there a reason to introduce the division in the first place? What will happen to the tons of non-Touhou games that are already buried there?
Also, I was pretty sure Akyu's was not for the games that you made yourself, like SAVIOR is not for the art that you made yourself.
PhantomSong:
I'd like to say, this is first and foremost a Touhou forum. The point of Akyuu is to find the meeting points of people that are fans of other games, but these are not dedicated to them. There are existence of other forums for fanmade games.
--- Quote ---Almost everyone who's looking for shmup indies searches for them in RaNGE, and not anywhere else
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Frankly, I don't see where you're getting this from. Most the non-touhou games posted in RaNGE usually flop; I don't see why this would be a meeting point for them. Hell, I've hardly seen anything non-Touhou over on RaNGE with competent progress. I really don't understand by what you mean here.
There's a difference between a Touhou-inspired game and a Touhou fan-game:
Len'en may be Touhou-inspired, but it is NOT a Touhou fan-game.
Same thing with LENK64's music series, the concept is Touhou-inspired, but it is NOT a Touhou fan-concept.
Saying something plays similar to another game is obsolete. Halo isn't a fan-game of Doom just because it plays similarly. Or that Overwatch is a fan-game of Halo/CoD(for a more relevant example). They are seen as different, individual games under the First-Person Shooter genre.
There are other mediums to get your works out there, if you're using MoTK as your only main medium for advertising you aren't going to see much success, there are many more mediums to which you can get your product out there. Relying on one forum is going to result in a potentially dead product, as most fan-games posted here don't get a lot of attention even if you show competent amount of work.
Frankly, I don't have a problem with the split, this is meant to be a Touhou forum, not a place for other games that may or may not be loosely inspired by Touhou.
A solution to both sides: A subforum in Akyuu's specifically for developing non-Touhou games.
Infy♫:
There's no point in moving user-made non-touhou games out of the game-making community that is RaNGE. You're negatively impacting our developers this way. I stand with Sparen on this issue.
Gusano Wornis:
I agree with Sparen about the split. I got caught by surprise when I finally updated status of my game.
If the admins want to still keep RaNGE as touhou-only at least give us a sub-board for non touhou games, because dev logs in Akyuu's will get lost easily with the active discussions of commercial games.
Delfigamer:
--- Quote from: PhantomSong on August 21, 2017, 09:36:09 PM ---There are other mediums to get your works out there, if you're using MoTK as your only main medium for advertising you aren't going to see much success, there are many more mediums to which you can get your product out there. Relying on one forum is going to result in a potentially dead product, as most fan-games posted here don't get a lot of attention even if you show competent amount of work.
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I think it would be much more productive if instead of "you don't belong here" you said "here is a link to a place that will give you much more audience than MotK could ever do" (with "a link" being an actual link to an actual website, of course).