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How will you get known?

by Matias Pecile · in General Discussion · 07/01/2001 (1:58 pm) · 6 replies

I am just wondering how most of you people making or planning on making game projects get to be recognized on the internet.

I was just trying to advertice my web page for my project, and I came up with a dead end, so I was looking for some help on the social part of making a game :)

thanks-
MatPec-
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Erkki Lindpere
#1
07/01/2001 (2:48 pm)
I don't have an answer for you, but one thing you can do is make your website more informative. I didn't find practically any info on what kind of a game it is. I don't want to read developer diaries just to find out that.
Surfers don't have infinite time to spend on your website!

Matias Pecile
#2
07/01/2001 (2:49 pm)
the web page is only beta, I am writing an ABOUT page as we speak ;)

Erkki Lindpere
#3
07/01/2001 (2:53 pm)
Wow what a quick response :)
Hmm... I did find something on the game, but it should be more easy to find. But as you said you're already writing an about page so ignore this comment.

Paul Robertson
#4
07/01/2001 (4:57 pm)
Two words: GameSpy. Find the genre planet site most suited to your game (or if your going to develoe with the V12, just go to Planet Tribes) and submit a email to that site's news department.

This can get you major exposure two ways:
#1 Chances are excellent that the genre site will post your news including links, thus all the regulars to that genre site will see it.
#2 If the genre site thinks the news is really worth something, it'll pop-up in an issue of GameSpy's email newsletter and on the GameSpy Dialy website.

Matias Pecile
#5
07/01/2001 (6:45 pm)
well then, better prepare everything and make it perfect before sending (might take a few months) I don't want people laughing at my letters

Andrew Chapman
#6
07/02/2001 (7:48 pm)
I'm gonna go the slow, boring, but more money-filled method and work as a database programmer while searching for a job with one of the established game development companies (May take a while, probably write a game in my spare time)