I've been trolling around the wiki and I realized something: mediocrity is the name of the game. You can't make something dumb, or else people will hate it. You can't make something too original or else no one will get it. Case in point my most successful game, Darmanitan Slam. It's mediocre and nothing more. Why did it get so semi-popular in the first place? I'll never know. It has no original characters, and the gameplay and story are similar to Donkey Kong Country Returns. I'm not sure if my other games are too smart or too dumb (that's why I crave comments, so people can TELL ME WHAT THEY THINK AND NOT WHAT THEY SEE. "It's a re-color," someone says. Uh, yeah, I know. Mind telling me if it's a GOOD re-color?) but I I look around and see many sysop-approved pages and think, "How?" I know, I know, one of my D-Slam games is S'd, but it took a LONG time for it to get S'd.
How do you make a good game? Great artwork, you sillies. I'm a terrible artist, so I tried making up for this with music. All that really did was get me a slight increase in blog popularity. Do you guys even care about story or gameplay, or is interesting artwork all that counts?
Darmanitan Slam is sadly my only success. I tried many other series that didn't get the traction I hoped they would get. My lack of original characters is my downfall. I try to make each and every one of my pages look pretty and readable, by what's missing from them is good artwork.
One thing I find hilarious about Fantendo is its vast number of New Super Mario Bros. fan games. I just think it's really funny. Around 25% of them are good, while the rest are... not so good. On this wiki, things are either amazing or absolutely horrible. The amazing stuff is mediocre, while the bad stuff is too dumb or too smart.
Let me tell you guys something: if what we post here were actually published games, they would absolutely suck (my games included). You all need to start putting real effort into what you do. I see a lot of biasism here.
Now it is time for my autopsy of your beloved Unten.
Unten the Beom has been in more games than HIS OWN games. His games are not that great. Wait... Does he even have any games? Why is he so popular? 'Cause he was created by the wiki's founder, Plumber. That automatically made Unten SO original and interesting. Ella Metals (forgive my language) is just a slutty version of the female Mario Tennis player character. All of these characters are popular because their creators have the respect of the community. I do not have a lot of community respect. I was nominated to be a sysop. Instead of the sysop being voted on in a poll, a bunch of other sysops got on a chat and chose the sysops themselves. RushingZ and I were left in the dust. Was it because our games were bad, or were we just not as popular as the others?
My rant ends here. I don't know what the point of contributing to Fantendo is anymore. I thought of it as a place where people could join together and share their ideas for characters and games. I don't know if it's like that anymore...
I'm a junior in high school. I've got a lot to think about. My school, my family, my girlfriend... I don't really have time to think about Fantendo. Even though I get frustrated all the time here, I still somehow love it here. Nowhere else on the Internet can you post your idea for a game. There are definitely a lot of good people and good ideas here, but the system here is just so jacked up.
I guess I'm going to allow comments. I know this is going to start a flame war. Just read of word of this blog before you comment. Give me ideas on how I can improve. Give me some goddamn suggestions. Don't just say "stfu," because that makes you immature and butthurt. I'm sorry if my thoughts hurt your butt a little bit, but I'm sticking to what I say, because it's what I see.