Hello! It's another proper friday community news update! Yay!
I'm still playing the "Pavilionite Biography" contest games. I'll hopefully have the results posted next week. I'd like to say I will, but then something horrible would happen and I would end up missing that self-imposed deadline, and I'd look like a liar. I will also have the result of the Horrors of Fanfiction contest up around the same time. At least, I plan to.
We just had our 10th Anniversary on wednesday, which was nice. People talked about in the most in this Free Forum topic. To mark the occasion, I added a "History of RPG Maker" feature in the articles section. Now, on to the other stuff.
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Broken Sky - TriggerHound has just joined the Pavilion, and posted info and screenshots of his game.
Today, ten years ago, Erik Novak (Kire) started the RPG Maker Pavilion.
Technically, this wasnt the first console RPG Maker website. My own stupid little "RPG Maker FAQ" page was set up in June, and some other person from the Agetec boards had a little website set up too. But neither of those matter, because the RPG Maker Pavilion was the first real website for the series, with a serious design, an active forum, and a staff with real dedication.
Since then, there have been others. The RPG Maker Garden. the RPG Maker Club. The RPG Maker Magazine. The Domain of the Nado. Probably dozens more. Only one of the "competitor" sites survived and is still doing well. That's proof of how awesome this place is.
It's been five years without a new release in the console RPG Maker series, and we're still going strong. The series will continue, of course, but no one expected us to survive such a large gap between games. Even now, people are still picking up the old RPG Maker titles, either for the first time, or still chugging away, making their decade-in-the-making masterpiece, and we're still here to support them, and help them bring their stories to life. Those of us that have moved on from the console RPG Maker software, or RPG Maker software altogether, are still here because they love the community. That's something truly wonderful, and very rare on the internet, where people move on from online communities all the time.
We're also right around the same period as my sixth anniversary as webmaster of the site. I'm extremely proud of my time in charge here, and I hope I've served you well. I have no intention of ever leaving this place, much like the rest of you. We're stuck here, together, forever.
With both the 10th anniversary of the RPG Maker Pavilion (July 21st), and the 10th anniversary of RPG Maker in the US (September 18th) on the way, I've added a new feature here that goes over the history of the console RPG Maker series, title by title, in chronological order.
These are not fully in depth game-exploring features like the RPG Tsukuru 4 or RPG Tsukuru DS articles were. Instead, this is just to teach you about what came before, and give some basic knowledge about each installment. Each game from this feature will be fully explored in a feature on this site by the end of this year.
Not much to say before the lists. contest games are still being played, and there's a new ongoing-article-thing that will start this weekend. Also, not gonna be a lot here, probably. due to the last update being on Sunday, we only have five days of activity to report, and none of it from a weekend.
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Josh's Adventure - 1ce is going all over the place. watch your step.
Black Ribbon - Karr found an odd way of torturing himself, thanks to Yeaster.
Crystal Shores - Is currently on track for a July 32nd. 2047 release date. OR IS IT?
Jamos' Whatever Thing - I accidentally briefly included this in the community news last week, when I didnt check the year of the post. But then the topic got interesting, so it's here again.
General
Everyone is comparing internet speeds and belize sucks.
Moderately Sized Irish Cook has an update on his book.
Okay, I was wrong. that's a pretty decent pile of stuff for just 5 days, considering I mostly only post about creative stuff here with like, one or two exceptions each week.
