Honestly, I think the idea of a website for other Nintendo fan games is a great idea.
For people interested in other franchises, it would give them a way to get resources for their projects that you wouldn't normally find on MFGG. Like say, top down tilesets for Zelda or Pokemon. Or perhaps 3D models and textures for series like F-Zero, Star Fox, etc.
It'd also avoid having too many different franchise specific sites like we did a while back, and hopefully keep activity up somewhat rather than splitting it across ten or so different domains.
So I'm definitely in favour of a general Nintendo fan game site.
And you know what? I'm also in favour of something like this for indie games too. I mean yeah, examples of such sites do exist already. Like say, Open Game Art or what not.
But they're terrible as far as content and organisation goes. The tilesets are all messed up and have far too few tiles to be useful, the character sprites are often too limited or too overwhelmingly complex to easily use for your game. Basically, they feel like the moderators don't really check if said resources are useful for the average game developer.
I mean, look at this example:
https://opengameart.org/content/country ... form-tilesIt's literally a straight piece of ground with a tree on it. That's the entire submission, which somehow they expect their users to make a usable level from.
MFGG doesn't do this, since it actually requires graphics and resources to be useful in a real game. So something like it for indie games (with actual moderation and quality control) would be extremely nice to see.
Honestly, I think the idea of a website for other Nintendo fan games is a great idea.
For people interested in other franchises, it would give them a way to get resources for their projects that you wouldn't normally find on MFGG. Like say, top down tilesets for Zelda or Pokemon. Or perhaps 3D models and textures for series like F-Zero, Star Fox, etc.
It'd also avoid having too many different franchise specific sites like we did a while back, and hopefully keep activity up somewhat rather than splitting it across ten or so different domains.
So I'm definitely in favour of a general Nintendo fan game site.
And you know what? I'm also in favour of something like this for indie games too. I mean yeah, examples of such sites do exist already. Like say, Open Game Art or what not.
But they're terrible as far as content and organisation goes. The tilesets are all messed up and have far too few tiles to be useful, the character sprites are often too limited or too overwhelmingly complex to easily use for your game. Basically, they feel like the moderators don't really check if said resources are useful for the average game developer.
I mean, look at this example:
https://opengameart.org/content/country-side-platform-tiles
It's literally a straight piece of ground with a tree on it. That's the entire submission, which somehow they expect their users to make a usable level from.
MFGG doesn't do this, since it actually requires graphics and resources to be useful in a real game. So something like it for indie games (with actual moderation and quality control) would be extremely nice to see.