Why do people make fangames?

[Victor Sant]

so then why don't they just come up with their own ideas?

Becase of something named free will. There is no rule that says that people MUST do 100% original things to show their creativity. I can use my creativity for what i want, not for what people think would be a "good use" of it.

As yamina said

They want make a tribute to something they love verry much and share that love with others.

If you can't undestand this, then there's no point dicussing that.

Also, the whole idea of making RPGs on maker isn't original from the start. It's just a rehash of alredy old concepts. So you can't say that some people have less creativity than others, just because their ideas was clearly base on an exhisting thing, since even "orignal" games do exactly the same thing. They just use other names. In fact, there's no original games these days. Only a few genius are capable of make REALLY original games these days.

You talk like people making fan games are necessaryly less creative than people that make original things, but sometimes it's totally the oposite, when making a fan game you are limited to the original concepts and there is all the fan base that expect something good, and to work with these limitations and make something really worth you need a LOT of creativity.

but if you're going to spend all your time on such a huge undertaking, why not spend the time on your own ideas?

Because of something called LOVE, when you love something, why not use your creativity to honor that thing?
What's is wrong to put your ideas into use on something you really like?
Also what universal rule says that people must use their creativity working on original games instead of fan games? otherwise they're less creative?

but i can't tell what maker it's done with. (why are these all in portuguese?)

Because they're from brazilian communities duh! -.-, And they all are from RMXP, excetp the FF7 remake.