SHINAN'S PROFILE

Yeah sorry about never commenting on it. I've tried the game on two computers without any problems (neither had any traces of RTP). So :thumbsup:

author=brandonabley link=topic=2793.msg53660#msg53660 date=1230933558
I think a chat function would be nice. IRC is like 30 years old, man. Have you been to Facebook or used XBox Live lately :(

I can only speak for myself but the biggest difference between facebook and IRC for me is that IRC is 1 000 000 times faster. This applies to most browser-chats for me, they just lag so much. Well actually IRC-via-browser lags too but at least the IRC-application doesn't.
But on the other hand I use a discontinued client from 1997... Everything was faster in 1997.

author=demondestiny link=topic=2793.msg53722#msg53722 date=1230961236
A chat site would be good but soon enough everyone will be chatting there and the forum will be left forgotten. I have seen this happen far too many times.

Well a chat exists and the forums aren't dead yet at least.

author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2801.msg53379#msg53379 date=1230831796
But then that brings to the table the belief that having a functional, active, exciting main site page and a bustling forum based community are mutually exclusive, and they're not. You can have both!

And you will! It's not like the forums are being removed is it? It's just that the main part of the site will actually be at the site instead of inside the community (forums).

I see it as a focus on "site" rather than "forum". Every single site is essentially a forum nowadays and I like that the page perhaps tries to get away from that a little bit.

I mean look at Gaming World, which is little more than a forum. Or RMXP.org which is ONLY a forum. I think that it's very good that one of these sites actually... you know... have a site?

Take Gamecake.net - it's just a collection of game pages, and doesn't have a sense of community. While that's totally useful, is that the direction we want to go?

I think it might be a good direction to go in. Communities are scary. It takes a certain investment to join one (for me anyway). I'd rather browse around than dig into forum posts. If I was a casual visitor that is. The page will obviously still keep enough personality to be something an interested party might want to join.

I'd say going for something a bit like Wikipedia is good. It's something you browse and read and use. And under it all is a huge community that you, yourself decide if you want to be part of. It's not obviously in your face but it's clearly there for anyone who wants it.


I also think the main page needs to be updated. I hear it isn't updated now because of waiting for RMN3, but when all has happened I think that there need to be "news" fairly often. There's "recently updated games" but the "news" can cover "significant updates" to "interesting games". Throwing in the Human Touch.

Now I've written a lot about things I really don't know anything about because I haven't really been following the development process nor contributed in any way. This is random thinking.

EDIT: Shite, a lot of posts happened while I was writing.

EDIT2:
I say when we remove GD&R, we introduce the Feedback forum I talked about:

Feedback -> game making drive posts, review request threads, reviewers requesting games threads, General Feedback Topic, screenshot topic, blog topic, podcasts

One thing I've seen work on another site (may not work here obviously), is user-submitted news. Of course it'd have to be moderated but important announcments by members could easily be thrown on the main page for everyone to see (Stuff like podcasts).

I love this. I'm more likely to read a comprehensive home page (more or less) on a game than read a thread on it. The presentation on a home page is more likely to be good. And I can't wait to see what sort of ambitious things some vaporware makers will conjure up on the pages. I have a feeling that the best-looking pages will have the least game on them.

So my advice to those who make a good game. Put some effort into the advertising that is the games page :)

Two questions:
I haven't had a game page here so I don't know what already exists but what kind of statistics are available? Download counts? Pageviews? Something like that? It would be very nice but completely inessential obviously.

The other question is the game subscription, does it have an RSS-feed so that you could, if you wanted to, subscribe to updates and have them on a personal RSS-readerthingie.