I haven't played Realm of the Mad God in years. Is the game doing well?
Yeah, apparently it's making a decent amount of money from what I've heard (like specifically I think DECA games had stated Realm was the game with the biggest source of income), but I play super inconsistently and don't have a good feel for the community sometimes. From about 2020 and on wards, there was a pretty large shift to Discord Raids for more optimal farming of end game dungeons, but it's become difficult for casual players to do them without hearing about joining them via word of mouth (both requiring a Realm Eye account and a Discord account).
The core gameplay loop is there but there's been a lot of changes over the years, so depending when you stopped playing and if you were to dive back in now, there's probably a lot to readjust. There's also a lot of Quality of Life changes that I like, but there's also a lot of changes I dislike.
Truth be told, I stopped playing because I had trouble getting the new update to install, and I have a feeling in a few years time I'll just redownload the whole thing and try to play again, lol. I'm guessing by then there'll be even more reworks since I think there was talk about another overhaul of the basic dungeons.
I avoid the MHA fandom like the plague to avoid story spoilers, but dare I ask what unhinged lunacy could you be seeing?
I'm not entirely sure since I'm catching up on the manga and I don't even know who the character is but on Twitter I saw some kind of argument over whether or not they were a specific sexuality and it's like... whatever but every time I see any discourse at all about this series it can't just be normal even by discourse standards, it has to be like a knock down drag out verbal WWIII with people telling each other to die mad and it's like...
I'm looking for this indie game that was like a 4-way falling block puzzle game. I think there were 4 players that were all dealing with falling blocks on one cross-shaped board. I don't know the name of it.
My memory swears this game exists and I want to find it, but I have no clue how to begin searching for it. I'm wondering if you have any idea what this game might be since you've come across a lot of obscure games.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a doujin game at least.
I WISH I knew, if you had a lead on a website you'd seen it on or specifically know if it's japanese I could look around.
Not sure if you made a post about this but, do you know where are some of the best places to find mugen characters right now? I've seen several different databases but I am unsure of what I'm doing.
Mugen Free For All has user-made collections of characters, some have dead links because they link to old sites or missing Mediafire files. But most of the links work and it's an easy to stumble over different versions of characters and so on.
People also post their releases on there if you want to get into the meat of newer of stuff.
Mugen Fighters Guild is primarily about on-going or newer projects, their archive hasn't been updated in long time so it has dead direct links. Their forum is where all the new releases happen.
You'll also find some smaller sites like Infinity Mugen Team or Brazilian Mugen Team, though the creators usually upload to other sites as well.
If you watch SpriteClub or SaltyBet, they should both have full lists of their rosters and stages so you can search by that and the author's names if you see someone interesting.
(Granted that doesn't always work, especially if the author is Japanese, you may have to run the author AND the characters' name through a translator to Japanese to find them raw)
Thanks for asking,
P.S.
AndersonKenya1 is a good site, it works like an archive where a few people are uploading characters from all over. You need an account to use it though, and I think the most bothersome aspect of the site is how easy it is to see some freaky NSFW stuff.
Sure they have dedicated section for all that, but it's openly shown on the main page of the site at times.
Granted nowadays, you'll see some freaky stuff just by typing MUGEN on Youtube.
BUT ASIDE FROM THAT, it's alright.
I just think there's WEIRD ISSUE of people really not using discretion when it comes to OBVIOUSLY FETISHISTIC CONTENT being shown publicly but that's me.
Now I didn't want to mention this in the past because I want to avoid drama-
MugenArchive is probably one of the bigger sites on-going right now? It does its job well, since people will upload stuff from other sites there for "archival purposes" like AndersonKenya.
However, users are given a Download Limit last time I checked and you can't download files 100MB if you're a "non-contributor". You can upload stuff to get points or whatever to level-up your account, but as stated, you can just contribute things from other sites.
So it's like they're incentivizing re-uploading other people's work even though usually people don't want to you do that without permission. If they were just sharing links to the works, it'd be one thing, but actively taking anything and everything for points is kind of wack.
Also non-contributer users can't use the site on Weekends.
MUGEN has always had issues with people stealing others' work and taking credit or changing things unnecessarily without permission.
I stumbled onto the old website of a rather prolific author, Rikard, whose original characters are still used to this day.
One of the last, possibly the final post, was an explanation that he was quitting because of people stealing his work.
I think MA's policy of rewarding people for others' work essentially, is further feeding that practice.
If you scroll the site, you'll see people probably under 18 even, uploading their edits of characters by other people with asinine changes. Stuff like messing with the palettes or making them more broken.
I can recall seeing something a few months ago where an incomplete character that was privately shared in a Discord server was uploaded without the author's permission.
I know about this because the character was still on the site despite everyone knowing this happened.
This isn't even going into the shady practices they've committed against the MUGEN Community as a whole.
So no one can stop you from using MA, just keep in mind there's some skeletons in the garden. Though I'd recommend using it at as a last resort, really.
I understand not everyone is like me and willing to spend time just digging for authors' original download links.
