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2nd Annual 'Be A Star' Event!

by Svengali · 11/02/2011 (8:58 am) · 0 comments

2nd Annual 'BE A STAR' event!
Have you ever wanted to have your face known around the world? Do you desire to be recognized by all of those around you? Here is Your Chance! SvengaliGames first official contest is the 'Be A Star!' event. It's easy to participate and everyone wins something!

One lucky contestant will win the opportunities to be immortalized in the ATROX NOCTIS world! as one of the NPCs, that everyone will interact with every day in the game. All who participate will receive a special "Starter Kit" for use once in-game.

This is the second year we have held this event; we slightly moved the date so that you could send us your pictures in your Halloween costumes too. After our first set of live promotions in West Palm Beach, Florida with Beat Thief Inc. we saw how much fun everyone was having dressing up, and loved it.

Just send us a picture of you, or you and your friends out on the town, and win the rights to star in ATROX NOCTIS as one of our in-game NPCs. Let the world see your swagger!

Come help us make the second year of running this contest/event as successful as last year's! Everyone who participates win something!

In addition to all the excitement of launching the 'Be A Star' event, we have accomplished a few things. Primarily, I finally activated most of the website. The game world intro stories are back online, with more to come shortly. Also, I finally erected our contact page, so now if you have any problems, complaints, or suggestions they will be easy to get to us, without worrying if anyone has checked the forum yet. We fixed all the links so they are pointed to the correct pages and servers. We have also begun to build the Credits for the game, if you have yet to have been listed do not worry yet, it a huge work in progress. We have also started to use the new News delivery system, so with the exception of content, the website is almost finished. Our only current plans are to add a picture gallery for screen shots, events and players.

The 'Be A Star' event is a self-running event so we should have plenty of time to fix issues and activate games systems over the next two months. We are starting to see life on the servers, too many more logs in and we will be forced to activate the COA map set, as it is much larger than, Baby Zombie Isle.

I love this event. The first time we ran it was 14 months ago, hard to believe. Last year's event was plagued with issues, from bad links to expired email addresses, and broken forms. However, it was huge in publicity. I pair the launch with a small ad run on face book, and it goes off. While I have no idea how many will actually participate, the traffic it generates and public awareness created is priceless. For example, official launch was last night at 8pm, between 8-12 we had one forth the hits on the web site that we had during all of the month of October. With some luck we will have completely matched October in the first 2 days of November. That's what I'm talking about, lol. Should have 10k players signed up by the end of the day too. Now just to get the game up to speed... No actually, I finally have a couple of testers and we are making some strong progress in debugging also.

If there is one thing that I learned from my years in the pizza industry, it was promotion, promotion, promotion. In order to have any level of success you must create your brand, and then take it to the streets. It is key.

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Creator of SvengaliGames, and developing the once up coming title NightLife: The MMORPG Of Dark Horror. Now named ATROX NOCTIS: Daemons Cradle- www.svengaligames.com