As you guys know, I'm making a Super Mario World hack called My Little Pony: Cutie Re-Mark Adventure. I'm doing my best to make the quality super high.
But what I'm really concerned about is that no one seems interested. When I posted the C3 demo in the C3 thread on the first day of C3, it was toward the very bottom of the forum collecting dust until it got a couple posts a few days later. I kept looking in the Ropebox Nomnomnominations to see if anyone nominated the demo to be put in the C3 Ropebox. I face palmed at posts in the thread like, "Hack A looks good, but seems unpopular." I thought, "Well, my hack seems less popular."
Not many people are posting in the threads. If I can't get a lot of feedback and community support, I'm not going to get much help with issues. If I can't get help with issues I can't fix, then I'll have to cancel it anyway. The unpopularity is making me lose motivation to develop it.
I'm currently helping Yoshifanatic a little with his Yoshi's Strange Quest hack. We've sent PMs back and forth, and we're still doing it. When I told him about the unpopularity of my hack, he's a bit baffled about my hack being unpopular, too, because My Little Pony is still fairly popular. He did say that it'll probably get more popular if I work on it more and show off more features. Is that true? If Person A's hack is unpopular now, will there be more people interested and will there be more discussion if Person A develops his hack more? If it is true, then I should DEFINITELY keep working.
So should I cancel my hack or keep working on it?
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I thought, "Well, maybe it's just the community. After all, it's called "Super MARIO World Central", not "My Little Pony Central"." So I tried submitting my C3 demo to Equestria Daily.
Now, as everyone knows, if you submit something to SMWCentral, it is put into the "Waiting to be Moderated" section of the category of the submission. If you submit a patch, for example, it gets put into the "Waiting to be Moderated" section of the Patches section. You can tell exactly where it is in the waitlist, and anyone can still download it. If the patch gets accepted, it gets put into the main section. If it's rejected, the moderator will tell you EXACTLY what you need to do to get it accepted. They don't just want you to re submit, they ENCOURAGE it!
Basically, what I'm trying to say is, you can CLEARLY, CLEARLY see whether your submission is still being moderated, is accepted, or is rejected. One of the many reasons to love SMWCentral.
However, with Equestria Daily, you simply send an E-Mail to an address with the details of what you're working on or of what news you find, etc. So I sent an E-Mail letting them know about my hack and C3 demo on July 15, 2017. Now, I KNOW my hack will get shown on the site, at least sooner or later, because the quality of the hack is so much higher and the hack is so much more faithful to the show and the franchise than 99% of the fan games on there. Seriously, I think Game Jolt has a better selection of My Little Pony fan games than Equestria Daily! Equestria Daily has so much junk and shovel ware in the "Game" section it's unbelievable! I mean, seriously, they've put crap like this on the site. All it is is Super Mario All Stars except the Mario characters are dressed up in costumes of My Little Pony characters. Considering the stuff I've already done with my C3 demo, even, like free flight, chargeable magic blasts, HP, and even changed physics, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON that they shouldn't post about my hack.
Anyway, so on July 19, I got an E-Mail back from Equestria Daily saying that my hack is cool and that they'll have someone look into it, but, ever since then, I've gotten nothing.
I don't know whether Equestria Daily is still looking at my hack or has rejected it. I don't even know if they even CAN reject submissions. I'm completely in the dark and know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the status of my hack other than the fact that it's not on the site yet. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting but it's still not there.
I'm thinking about updating my demo to fix bugs and issues, then sending another E-Mail. But would that be rude? Is sending a second E-Mail the right thing to do? Should I keep waiting? I don't know how long it even takes for submitted content to show up on Equestria Daily. I've read that it can take months for a long Super Mario World hack to be moderated on SMWCentral. Should I keep working on my hack, and submit a second E-Mail when I, like, complete my World 1 Demo?
Oh, I don't know what I should do? What should I do with the Equestria Daily situation?
But what I'm really concerned about is that no one seems interested. When I posted the C3 demo in the C3 thread on the first day of C3, it was toward the very bottom of the forum collecting dust until it got a couple posts a few days later. I kept looking in the Ropebox Nomnomnominations to see if anyone nominated the demo to be put in the C3 Ropebox. I face palmed at posts in the thread like, "Hack A looks good, but seems unpopular." I thought, "Well, my hack seems less popular."
Not many people are posting in the threads. If I can't get a lot of feedback and community support, I'm not going to get much help with issues. If I can't get help with issues I can't fix, then I'll have to cancel it anyway. The unpopularity is making me lose motivation to develop it.
I'm currently helping Yoshifanatic a little with his Yoshi's Strange Quest hack. We've sent PMs back and forth, and we're still doing it. When I told him about the unpopularity of my hack, he's a bit baffled about my hack being unpopular, too, because My Little Pony is still fairly popular. He did say that it'll probably get more popular if I work on it more and show off more features. Is that true? If Person A's hack is unpopular now, will there be more people interested and will there be more discussion if Person A develops his hack more? If it is true, then I should DEFINITELY keep working.
So should I cancel my hack or keep working on it?
---
I thought, "Well, maybe it's just the community. After all, it's called "Super MARIO World Central", not "My Little Pony Central"." So I tried submitting my C3 demo to Equestria Daily.
Now, as everyone knows, if you submit something to SMWCentral, it is put into the "Waiting to be Moderated" section of the category of the submission. If you submit a patch, for example, it gets put into the "Waiting to be Moderated" section of the Patches section. You can tell exactly where it is in the waitlist, and anyone can still download it. If the patch gets accepted, it gets put into the main section. If it's rejected, the moderator will tell you EXACTLY what you need to do to get it accepted. They don't just want you to re submit, they ENCOURAGE it!
Basically, what I'm trying to say is, you can CLEARLY, CLEARLY see whether your submission is still being moderated, is accepted, or is rejected. One of the many reasons to love SMWCentral.
However, with Equestria Daily, you simply send an E-Mail to an address with the details of what you're working on or of what news you find, etc. So I sent an E-Mail letting them know about my hack and C3 demo on July 15, 2017. Now, I KNOW my hack will get shown on the site, at least sooner or later, because the quality of the hack is so much higher and the hack is so much more faithful to the show and the franchise than 99% of the fan games on there. Seriously, I think Game Jolt has a better selection of My Little Pony fan games than Equestria Daily! Equestria Daily has so much junk and shovel ware in the "Game" section it's unbelievable! I mean, seriously, they've put crap like this on the site. All it is is Super Mario All Stars except the Mario characters are dressed up in costumes of My Little Pony characters. Considering the stuff I've already done with my C3 demo, even, like free flight, chargeable magic blasts, HP, and even changed physics, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON that they shouldn't post about my hack.
Anyway, so on July 19, I got an E-Mail back from Equestria Daily saying that my hack is cool and that they'll have someone look into it, but, ever since then, I've gotten nothing.
I don't know whether Equestria Daily is still looking at my hack or has rejected it. I don't even know if they even CAN reject submissions. I'm completely in the dark and know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the status of my hack other than the fact that it's not on the site yet. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting but it's still not there.
I'm thinking about updating my demo to fix bugs and issues, then sending another E-Mail. But would that be rude? Is sending a second E-Mail the right thing to do? Should I keep waiting? I don't know how long it even takes for submitted content to show up on Equestria Daily. I've read that it can take months for a long Super Mario World hack to be moderated on SMWCentral. Should I keep working on my hack, and submit a second E-Mail when I, like, complete my World 1 Demo?
Oh, I don't know what I should do? What should I do with the Equestria Daily situation?
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