You don't have to feel guilty, and even free things like the ratings you gave me help a lot so my games can get seen! That said, I do really appreciate the financial support as well and I'm honored you'd choose me in such a large sea of developers XD I know what you mean though, it is pretty daunting but also exciting. I was actually inspired to make games after playing a bunch of awesome rpg maker games from others developers!
Yeah! Those two are really good, but I'd say my favorites aren't on itch. It's hard to pick, but I'd say Ib is my favorite because of the great use of custom art, Witch's House is runner up for all the deaths, I love the weirdness of Yume Nikki, and my nostalgia pick is Creepypasta Land-a kind of obscure one but the very first RM horror I saw that got me into the genre!
I agree - Witch's house, Yume Nikki and Ib are one of the first RPGmaker games i've played, they are quite known even here at the end of the Earth in russia:) Also Undertale is really famous, Mad father, Hello Charlotte and some more. If you take non-rpgmaker games, then it would be Fran Bow, Remigiusz Michalksi's games, Amanita design studio etc. But 99% of indie games are almost impossible to find on our websites(;_;)
Well the websites are not much of a problem, you can always find a workaround, even if they'te blocked:)) And russian translators usually suck, but that's a separate topic. The worst thing is prejudice that "games are for children" really strong here. That' s the real barrier that can never be broken, it makes me so sad... And the fact that all attention of crowd is stolen by hyped expensive projects, like The Witcher, Fallout series etc. I like those too, but now i understand they lack something that only indie-games have. I guess it's about personality of an author, being expressed through a game, that makes playing much more emotional. So naturally i want to share that experience with others, but even my friends don't seem interested:( And that's exactly the reason why i think you should play Undertale, because in aspect of emotionality it's just overwhelming and one of the greatest:)) And there are some spooky moments for a horror-fan:)
P.S. Recently i found out that these ")" don't count as a smile in english so i might be misunderstood in some dialogues(-_-;)
Yeah, one time I heard someone say of indie games (especially horror ones) is that they can do the crazy or random ideas a big company would play it too safe to invest in, which makes them that much more unique! And I agree about your point on emotions. That's one of the big things I like about Creepypasta Land, because even though there were some technical problems with it, it had so much personality! And awesome, I'll keep that in mind with Undertale! And haha no worries, I understood most of your emojis! Like this :)
I played Creepypasta Land and omg i love it! It's the most fun horror game ever:) Though it's kinda raw, with terrible language errors, silly characters and dialogues, but that makes even more fun. At least at the beginning... I like that psychedelic bad ending much more than good ending for its resemblance with "Hello Charlotte"(which i adore so much<3) Definitely a great game!
Maybe that's not the version you were talking about, but i think it's the first version by Lukas Boato.
Haha now you know what I mean XD And the language errors are cause he's from Brazil and speaks Portuguese (if I remember correctly! But I think that's it!) But yeah he really just threw whatever he wanted in there for fun and even though it's slightly less professional, I love it! A work of pure passion. And fun fact, one of the graves references Rene Wurz-the youtuber who does the Creepypasta challenges I join! Watching him play Creepypasta land introduced me to both him and the RM horror genre. And now six and seven years later, he's playing my games! Blows my mind XD
I think it's only natural - next generation takes all the best from the previous and creates something new. I'm glad that i can watch this process ongoing:) But also i always try to know all about history of anything i have interest in, to find its "roots".
I've found a curious topic on rpgmaker.net - "rpgmaker games obscurity iceberg". Most titles at the bottom are nowhere to be found... Maybe you know some of them.