# of players in BYOND Discussion

ID:729150
 
May 6 2012, 10:10 pm
Keywords: ofplayers
Why when you click this tab does it show only some games and not all, excluding some games with more players?
#1 May 7 2012, 12:19 am
Because it shows only listed games and excludes fangames unless you are explicitly searching under the fangame or anime tag.
#2 May 7 2012, 12:39 am
why does it exclude fangames?
#3 May 7 2012, 1:25 am
Because most fan games can not be listed anymore..
#4 May 7 2012, 1:25 am
In response to A.T.H.K (#3)
why cant they be listed anymore?
#5 May 7 2012, 1:52 am
Really? Not sure if you are being serious or not .. but oh well here goes .

BYOND received a cease and deist order from Funamation, And I believe from there BYOND just removed all Anime games from public viewing.

You can still see some of the anime games that have been approved - here

Most of the games are rips anyway BYOND frowns upon them as someone has just taken somebody else's hard work change the name and released it.

If I was you I wouldn't be bothering about this anime stuff ... we have some great up coming games such as Spirit Age!
#6 May 7 2012, 3:33 am
In response to A.T.H.K (#5)
Ah i was being serious, I wasnt sure why byond was not showing anime games. It seems odd to remove a whole genre of games though.

As for not bothering with anime themes i disagree with you, on the internet there are millions of games people can play however if you specify a game to a recognizable theme; naruto, dbz, etc, it is much easier to bring in players because they have a common interest in the theme itself.

I just sorta find it surprising how some of the biggest games on byond are hidden from view.
#7 May 7 2012, 4:48 am
You can use the search feature to create a list of all approved games.

you can run a search for author:ad1 (don't ask).

You can also alternatively run a search with -author: followed by anyone who has not created an approved game, and that will also spit out a list of all approved games.