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In my opinion if NesDev wants to make a lot of progress or do something great they should band together their very best, most intelligent and active members into a team (of say about 10 individuals) and they should try to make a great platformer or action game like Contra, instead of just doing demos and small works. There's definitely people out there that can write original NES music and perhaps I could help with the art, if this place is more technically-minded than artistically-minded, as I know it is. It could be done on a new subsection of the Wiki, a lot of coding work, there would be both official ROM updates of the game and user-contributed ROMs. I know this idea sounds off-topic, but this is a good way to stop any of the bad feelings that may be going on in this group and if nesdev has been stagnating in any way in the last few year (I don't know), then it's also a good idea. Personally though I would just like to see a cool game be made here, whether it's something like Duck Tales or Getsufuu Maden or an RPG like Madara or Mother, whatever, I think it can be done. I mean there's a lot of possibilities. For instance you could do a survival horror game like Sweet Home or a detective game like Portopia and Deja Vu (that wouldn't require as deft of programming skills, I guess, than a good action game). I don't think it's the sort of thing that would interest Jeremy Chadwick since he has moved on, but I wish to see productivity here, except I really know next to nothing about programming and the NES (technically) So why is it me that comes up with these ideas? Well in the business world it's often some assholish outside guy, a producer or something, that wants to get something done and put people to work, when he doesn't really do the work himself. SO I guess that's how I am. But I thought I'd make the suggestion instead of starting a new thread.
In my opinion if NesDev wants to make a lot of progress or do something great they should band together their very best, most intelligent and active members into a team (of say about 10 individuals) and they should try to make a great platformer or action game like Contra, instead of just doing demos and small works. There's definitely people out there that can write original NES music and perhaps I could help with the art, if this place is more technically-minded than artistically-minded, as I know it is. It could be done on a new subsection of the Wiki, a lot of coding work, there would be both official ROM updates of the game and user-contributed ROMs. I know this idea sounds off-topic, but this is a good way to stop any of the bad feelings that may be going on in this group and if nesdev has been stagnating in any way in the last few year (I don't know), then it's also a good idea. Personally though I would just like to see a cool game be made here, whether it's something like Duck Tales or Getsufuu Maden or an RPG like Madara or Mother, whatever, I think it can be done. I mean there's a lot of possibilities. For instance you could do a survival horror game like Sweet Home or a detective game like Portopia and Deja Vu (that wouldn't require as deft of programming skills, I guess, than a good action game). I don't think it's the sort of thing that would interest Jeremy Chadwick since he has moved on, but I wish to see productivity here, except I really know next to nothing about programming and the NES (technically) So why is it me that comes up with these ideas? Well in the business world it's often some assholish outside guy, a producer or something, that wants to get something done and put people to work, when he doesn't really do the work himself. SO I guess that's how I am. But I thought I'd make the suggestion instead of starting a new thread.