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Offline avguste

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Advice on Getting Players Requested
« on: January 06, 2009, 09:45:43 PM »
hello all

Myself and another coder are admins and owners of Armorica RPG http://armoricarpg.novahost.org
We are trying to figure how to attract more active players.
Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2009, 07:44:47 AM »
Add your game to topwebgames and apexwebgaming. These are the best toplists, you can also post news about your game there.
Then you can also do some banner exchange at http://www.pbbgexchange.com. You can also buy advertisement on apexwebgaming wich is the best way to get more active players, but you need some advertisement money for that.

Before i forget, adding a screenshot and some more info about your game on the frontpage can help. Thats how i think, if i cant find a screenshot or more info on the website then i dont bother checking it out and i'm not the only one who thinks like that.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2009, 07:46:19 AM by Hypemaster »
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2009, 09:31:41 AM »
Quote from: Hypemaster on January 07, 2009, 07:44:47 AM
Before i forget, adding a screenshot and some more info about your game on the frontpage can help. Thats how i think, if i cant find a screenshot or more info on the website then i dont bother checking it out and i'm not the only one who thinks like that.

Indeed, that would be very usefull...
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2009, 01:55:58 PM »
It's a standard mafia script, I never played these, but the features seems below average of this genre. You need to buy mods for it and then pump a lot of money into advertising. I have no idea how to promote it any other way...

You might also try to retheme it, there are plenty unrelated themed games that use this engine, I even saw a space conquest game made of this :D
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2009, 10:46:38 AM »
you've heard of the saying 'you shouldnt judge a book by its cover' right?

the thing is people do, we cant help it, its built into us. So get your main website looking a bit better....

and for heavens sake get rid of the player number statistics....you only want to show those if their something to skite about....otherwise they will just drive people away...

...and then again, your still in beta....what do you expect?
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 12:14:45 AM »
Thank you very much for those advices.
We added the game to TopWeb,Apex and TopRPG.
We have changed the game layout and made it unique. We are also updating some of the features and such
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2009, 08:29:34 AM »
add it to galaxy news too   ;D
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2009, 07:01:51 PM »
there are plenty of directories put there add it to as many as you can
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2009, 03:11:28 AM »
some games give resources for voting their games in many websites.
so nearly many players visit these websites.
try on them
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Re: Advice on Getting Players Requested
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2009, 08:51:05 AM »
you might try www.cetopwebgames.com , your game will then also be listed within 72h at www.cegamesdirectory.com

1st is a voting portal
2nd is a game review portal that fetches game entries from CETWG (so you can't submit your game at CEGD)


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