I've played several RPG maker games made by amateurs. Some of them seemed to have significant followings, though I wasn't interested enough to make a serious effort to estimate the numbers, since I wasn't the creator. What kind of game were you thinking of making?
I have a game I've been fantasizing about and I think I could make it work. It has to be a game, not a story, because I want to pull a kind of trick on the player. It's not that unusual in fiction for a character to start out on the side of the "bad guys", have a realization that his side is the one that's bad, and then go on to save the day. (James Cameron's Avatar is a recent example.) I want to start the player out on the side of bad guys that appear good, as in Eliezer's short story "The Sword of Good", and then give the player the ...
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