NOTE: This is the official forum for RPG Maker products and Visual Novel Maker. We do not offer support for programs that are not sold in our store, nor do we allow advertising and requests pertaining to non-RPG Maker/Visual Novel Maker software. Please refrain from requesting materials or services for non-RPG Maker/Visual Novel Maker activities. Do not discuss other game engines not published by Degica or resource selling websites here.
1. Do NOT insult, flame, and/or harass other users on the board, or anyone outside it. This includes the usage of slurs which aren't allowed either.
1.2 Do NOT discuss religion, politics, conspiracy theories, or nationalism (nationalism is defined as discussion about why one country/nation is better than others or why a country/nation is bad) outside the scope of game development.
1.3 These forums operate in English as a standard language. You may compose a message in any other language you need to for your own benefit but a translation to English is required. This may be accomplished with an online tool if needed.
2. Do NOT discuss how to carry out illegal activities or any illegal activities you have committed. This includes but is not limited to how to obtain illegal drugs and piracy.
2.2 Piracy of our own products here is not tolerated, and falls under our instant ban rules.
2.3 Do not ask for ripped resources. Do not post ripped resources. Do not request help or give help to make ripped assets functional. If you post a game using ripped resources, we will remove your game if the materials are obtainable from your project file or if requested by the copyright owner.
2.4 Do NOT request assistance to decrypt or modify another developer’s RPG Maker game without first obtaining the developer’s permission and confirming you are permitted access to all resources without violating their terms of service.
3. Do NOT post illegal materials.
4. Do NOT post disruptively. This includes, but is not limited to:
- double/multi posting (posting two or more times in row)
- bumping threads (before 24 hours have passed)
- necroposting (reviving a support or request thread that was inactive for 30 days or more - original poster may revive)
- thread hijacking (using another member’s support/request thread to fulfill your own support/request need)
- off-topic posts (particularly in support and request threads)
- clearing your posts (in a way that makes a thread/status unreadable or highly altered from its original meaning)
- spamming (other types of low-effort and/or repetitive postings)
4.2 Do NOT create an account just to spam, advertise, insult, troll, or criticize our members and/or threads.
4.3 Do NOT continue to argue in the same thread after a moderator or admin has used mod voice (blue or red text) to warn you, or report their post. Please PM the moderator if you wish to discuss your warning or follow the procedure at the bottom of this post.
5. Do NOT advertise paid services or products in your signature, posts, or profile feed (please see our rules for profile feeds here).
5.1. You may link to your personal site, game, forum, or resources in your signature.
5.2. You may not advertise for commercial purposes EXCEPT for games made with a KOMODO-published engine.
5.3. Crowdfunding and donations are permitted for game projects only. Direct links to your campaign/donation collection must be contained to your game thread. These campaigns must be related to your approved RPG Maker games. No exceptions.
5.4. Do NOT advertise invites to your chat channels (Discord, Slack) in your post replies or status updates. You may include a server invite for your game or let’s play community in your approve game or let’s play thread. You may include Discord contact details in your signature.
5.5. Do NOT offer or request commissions (including scripts and plugins) unless you have access to the Classifieds section and have made an approved thread.
5.6. Do NOT offer your pre-made resources for sale in your threads, posts, signature, profile feed, or via PM. If you have pre-made resources you want to sell here, submit an official store submission.
Note - If any links in your threads/signature eventually lead to your paid content, this is acceptable. Just do not advertise your paid content, donation links, etc.
6. Do NOT have a signature larger than 800x220 pixels. You may use spoilers to keep your signature smaller than this. Spoiler tags are included in the final size of the signature.
Examples of Size
7. Do NOT attempt to take moderation into your own hands, no matter how minor the issue. Use the report prompt. Moderators are here to help and will do so once available.
8. Do NOT encourage drama, such as site wars.
8.2 Do NOT make passive aggressive reports and/or status updates directed toward moderators to cause drama. In particular, reporting posts by moderators you disagree with and to make an attack or "troll" towards them. This will no longer be excusable. If you have a problem with a post a moderator made, follow the correct procedures in this thread.
9. Do NOT use EXCESSIVE profanity, do not use any profanity against a member, and do not try to bypass the profanity filter.
10. Do NOT post anything that isn't fit for a PG-13 forum. This site welcomes people of these ages. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Sexually explicit content.
- Highly suggestive content that, while not explicit, is inappropriate for a PG-13 audience.
- Mature themes not suited for a PG-13 forum.
11. Do NOT use blue or red text in your posts. Blue and red text is used by moderating staff for mod actions to make sure people take notice of what they are saying. Exceptions are made for formatting in opening posts of Project Threads, Tutorial threads, Completed Script threads, and Resource threads if you need something to be very obvious like disclaimers or important instructions. Since its an opening post, it shouldn't interfere with mod voice.
12. Do NOT use unreadable colors for your text.
13. Do NOT start contests or forum-wide events, regardless of whether there is a prize involved or not, unless you have permission from an administrator.
14. Do NOT anger the gorilla.
15. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, FORUM GAMES ARE BANNED [The kind of threads where you ask people to post X about the person above them, etc. etc.]
16. Do NOT contact other members by private message, on the forum or status feed to invite them to put additional tools (such as leaderboards, ads, etc - whether yours or another person's) into their game.
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AI Policy
This is a place where people talk to people. As such:
- Do NOT post AI-generated responses. These will be considered spam.
- AI may be used for machine translation, grammar/spelling checks, and formatting (headings, whitespace, bullets/symbols, etc).
- Do NOT distribute AI-generated content. This includes content created by any process involving an AI service, such as AI modification of a resource. This applies to all content, whether or not it is intended for use in game development.
- Images and sounds generated with AI are NOT permitted to be shared as resources.
- Scripts and plugins generated with AI are NOT permitted to be shared as resources.
- General AI Content is NOT permitted anywhere outside of the General AI Sharing Thread. This is still NOT a place to share generated resources.
- Games that utilize AI are permitted, but it must be disclosed in the game thread.
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INSTANT BAN OFFENSES
In all cases of instant ban offenses, your account will be first suspended while an investigation is done into the offense. After an investigation is done (which may only take a few minutes depending on the obviousness of your offense), you will be banned. The following are instant ban offenses:
1. Using pirated RM software or pirated resource packs. This WILL get you an instant ban. We don't tolerate piracy here.
2. Credit theft. Do NOT claim any art, music, script, plugin, etc. as your own unless you made them. Credit people before submitting a post!
3. Ban/Suspension evading.
4. One account per user. In general, the eldest account will be maintained unless the login information is unobtainable. HOWEVER, duplicate accounts created to circumvent and/or break forum rules, evade bans, or simply to "agree" with and boost other accounts will always be banned and have all accounts banned.
5. (Mass)-PM'ing members to recruit them to your website/forum or to ask them to buy your product. Do not harass our members with advertising.
6. We reserve the right to ban someone without notification on a case-by-case basis.
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These rules are enforced and interpreted by our moderating staff. If you see someone breaking the rules, INCLUDING FORUM STAFF, submit a report using the report system.
In the event you disagree with a moderator’s actions against you, follow the procedure below in lieu of the standard report function:
1. If it was a Moderator, contact one of the Global Moderators and skip to step 4.
2. If it was a Global Moderator, contact one of the Admins and skip to step 4.
3. If it was an Admin, contact the Lead Admin (Touchfuzzy).
4. Write a PM to this contact with a link to the post that was moderated. Provide a polite explanation of why you believe this was not a violation of our rules, or why you were treated unfairly.
5. If you are still not happy after communication with that member of the moderating staff, move up one step of the ladder (Global Mod-to-Admin, Admin-to-Lead Admin.)
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