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I would report the company that produced the cd to Nintendo so that these asswipes who are ripping people off would be stopped.
Notice how I also pointed out that it may raise other problems.
What I have to gain is satisfaction in knowing that my games, which I intended for people to get for free, are actually getting to them that way.
Unfortunately, all these fan projects are now in my way of doing that.
I like fan games. Sometimes. I'm even helping out with one now. I don't want them to get shut down.
So what do I do? I guess ignore it, right? Yahoo. Another victory for lazy assfucks who want to make a quick buck off of other peoples work and take some cash from those silly people we call our fanbase.
Yes, my distribution terms thing was shortsighted. I blew it on that one, I'll admit it. I guess it was naive to think that my giving things away for free wouldn't turn into a business opportunity for some cockroach poofter fucks.
I've learned my lesson.

Man, this annoys me.
I make a point to give these games away for free, at my own expense, and some jerkstores come along, put together some compilation, not even bothering to do some nice package design, and start making money off me.
My games are free. If you want to put them on a cd with a magazine, then fine, at least you actually produced the damn magazine. At least it's not a shallow attempt at scamming people out of money. More or less.
They didn't even ask me, for f's sake.
I have a feeling my text files will be much less forgiving in the future.
I also have a feeling Nintendo will be getting an interesting email soon.

eric ->  

The other potential problem I see here is that if say, Sierra gets wind that KQVGA and KQ2VGA are being sold anywhere, they may not be so relaxed about shutting down fan projects.  

edit: Hmm, on second thought, would bringing this to light perhaps cause the shutdown of more independent projects? I wrote up a nice email to Nintendo, but I think I'll avoid sending it until I get feedback from you guys. What do you think?

Ok, I claim bragging rights on this one.

Crown Jewel

Yeah, the picture sucks ass, the description is vague, but man, would you have passed it up?

Guess I'm not Pur-Laine...

Colisse?

Sorry, Quebec.

Mais oui, colisse.

I wasn't going to post anymore of these because it seemed pointless, but this one is interesting.

R@RE!

Another good rule is to always post screenshots. People love screenshots.

Sometimes you just gotta start fresh.

* rodekill looks through his RK2 folders...

I was on the POTC ride in Florida when I was a kid, but it was before MI came out, so I didn't appreciate it in the same way.

Ah, gotcha.

My creativity runs in clumps.
I'll have a few months where I'll be drawing and working on games and all kinds of stuff, and then I'll burn out suddenly and take a couple of months off and do almost nothing creative.
This becomes a problem when I have to force it for work, but work is fake creativity anyways.

[o]

So, because you can't stand boxing you can't wait until he gets knocked out?
That's, uh, great.

Shawno

Jayel -> I don't see how it's any different than painting a brand-name soup can and selling it for millions. It's pop-art baby.

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

Awsome.
Everyones goal should be to work for him/herself and stop making fat old men rich.
Good luck man.

The frontman is great with the crowd too.

At one point he turned to the back of the stage towards the big tapestry thing with their logo on it and says "Hey! Look at our new banner!", so a few guys in the audience go "WHOO!", to which he replies "Come on guys, it's worth like a hundred bucks!".

Their manager is a patient of a buddy of mine who does some physiotherapy stuff, and that's how we found out about the show. I should be getting a copy of their album soon.

A) Making good graphics to accompany your game is a process that requires different amounts of work depending on your background in art. I think it's safe to assume that, say, Igor can probably come up with some spectacular art in about a hundredth of the time it would take, oh, me for example.

B) People who will disregard every game based on one or two games aren't worth my time and effort as a designer of free games. Not all fan-made adventures are trying to compete with commercial games (recent or older). In order to promote the fan scene we need to show people that games can be good beyond certain expectations, be it graphically or otherwise.

Let's put it this way, Little Willy is young and used to the current crop of games. The fancy high res good graphics kind. Should he write off Monkey Island because the graphics are no good according to what he's used to?

What a shame.

Band.

I saw this band last night. They put on a free show for promotion and rocked hard.
I don't know if their recorded stuff does justice to seeing them live though.

I've always detested Poser, just because well, it was garbage, but the fact that you somehow created Christina Ricci with the latest version makes me want to take another look.