64Digits; a dying community

Posted by NeutralReiddHotel on Sept. 6, 2009, 11:19 p.m.

In the beginning, there was Flash. Anybody that wanted to make a simple game had to go through the hell of learning how to use this program. Many were miserable.

Then, came Mark Overmars. He saw the problem of the lack of a simple-to-use game making program. "Let there be games," he said, and Game Maker was made.

He saw how there was virtually nobody that knew of this amazing new program, so he found a way to people to know. "Let there be the Game Maker Community," he said, and the GMC was made.

As many new game developers the ease of use for Game Maker, and saw the potential, they also made many great games. However, with this, also came many new users who just wanted to make Super Mario Bros. clones. The GMC was split in half, one half being the intelligent, the other the stupidity. The intelligent still had a problem with the many Click the Ball clones, and made their own new community, called 64Digits. Many lulz ensued, and everyone in 64D was happy. The intelligent breed expanded, and amazing games were made.

However, everything good eventually comes to an end. 64Digits was often seen as superior, and new GMC members that also wanted to be seemed as intelligent joined 64D. The intelligent breed then realized that no matter where they went, stupidity was going to be a problem. At first, they just tried to live with it, but eventually they started leaving the site. Little by little, stupidity was taking over 64D.

Many, many years later…

Very few of the intelligent breed stayed in 64Digits, in hope that one day, the original members were going to return, and rid 64D of stupidity once and for all, to make it how it first was. Why would they stay for so long though? Well, the stupidity breed was starting to mature and get smarter. Maybe not as much as the original members were, but good enough to be tolerable.

At long last…

The few remaining original members realized that the first members were never coming back. They settled with the new breed made by the first stupidity breed, which weren't bad at all, but nothing in comparation to the original members. Since the first members that made 64D what it was were no longer there, the remaining and the new breed did not see the point of even staying in 64D. They too, started fading away.

The ending…

The maximum total members per day was 5, blogs stayed on the front page for days, if not weeks. Game Maker activity was dead, many even thought of changing the focus of the site to see if it would lead to new members and a new community, not realizing that 64D was doomed when the original members, dedicaded Game Maker users, left.

Comments

Quietus 15 years, 3 months ago

V3 was never coming to begin with, we were better off staying with V1 merely for the fact that people would stfu about future layouts.

V 15 years, 3 months ago

If you ask me, who is to blame for the lack of members due to so many downtimes? We've switched… 5 servers in the course of 4 years? I don't intend to sound like an asshole towards the people dedicated to keeping the place alive, but were they really necessary? Each server move entailed a dread in every user (And rightfully so) for another downtime lasting at least over a month.

V3 was nothing but a dream, one that never saw fruition. It's been talked about 4 years ago, and still we haven't ever seen a V3. Rather than flogging the idea endlessly, it should've been better to say "You know what? We're fine with what we have right here." and simply dropped the idea of V3.

Some of the overlords that kept the place going have gradually left or dissapeared off the map completely, or have stepped down. I don't blame anyone for that, it's completely reasonable, and with the dropping population, it only comes as no surprise that the number of mods online we have now is fine, simply because all of the new members have simply moved on. The older members, however, are staying right where we've been all the time. But those numbers are dropping as well, because we're outgrowing game maker and moving on to more important things in life, like jobs and such. It gets hard to juggle a college life with a girlfriend that you've been with for over half a year, along with younger brothers that you have to help out on top of everything else. Whatever little time I have left goes to looking at my WIP's and simply wondering why I couldn't finish them.

TL;DR version, since some of you fucks are still too lazy to read anything over 500 words, the site is entering into a nasty decline, mods and senior members holding the place together are having to leave due to life problems, and simply don't have time for game maker anymore.

HeroofTime55 15 years, 3 months ago

V3 was NEVER going to happen.

mixahman 15 years, 3 months ago

Well I try to advertise this site as much as possible without going overboard & spam other forums & sites.

But then I visit the site to update or upload new stuff… it's down, mia or on hiatus. :(

JID 15 years, 3 months ago

Actually, I was just kidding about V3, what this site REALLY needs is more good mods that are available to fix the site, and more users.