It's already half a year since I started working on Duel Board. The main purpose was achieved - Cyber Battles is up & running, playable and stable (it sure can be, and will be improved).
The game has nice community of approx. 100 active players and first tournament proved, that the server is able to handle many concurrent online players.
Ok. It's nice. And... what now? Now the game needs more players. I would like to ask you all - if you like this game - to try and promote this site. How?
- let know your friends
- if you are member of some other forum/community, write there about Duelboard. I don't want you to spam people or boards, try to do it in decent way and preferably also write few words about the game and site (and not just: click this link)
- any other way you can think of is good :)
THANK YOU
Could I suggest registering this site at Mpogd.com (and subsequently going for site of the month), as well as suggesting it to FHM.co.uk (100 Greatest Games - most popular online games site in Britain).
thank you, every suggestion is welcome, I will try it (I was already ignored by few portals :-\ but the one you mentioned is specialized on multiplayer games, so it could work)
Will try some of my funky marketing tactics too.
If it works - I charge 5% of net on any increase directly or indirectly attributable to my nefarity.
mmkay?
sure, we have a deal ::) But maybe you could tell me what are you going to do
A detailed tutorial to the game would be nice. Imagine if you were a newbie, and you had to read the (No offense) crappy rules, you still wouldn't have a clue.
I have had to play my own tutorial game for two newbies so far :-\
I'll put together a strategy & then work on it.
You should see a decent rise in numbers.
I'll discuss details as & when I implement any initiative.
(& visa mobile phone gaming - no news back on that yet.)
ehm, I was thinking that I could also invest some money in google advertising (AdWords). I've already made relatively big investment in hardware, so I think that extra $100 will not kill me, as might be worth a try
Yeah... Online gaming is a v. competitive market - a few quid for advertising may go a long way in differentiating your site from the pack.
Would suggest firming up your games suite, and perhaps starting development (to alpha stage maybe) of your headlining subscription game before shelling out too much on advertising.
Don't spend before you can earn, as it were.
IBN might be a decent purchase, although I haven't really looked into that side of things too much.
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Quote from: Parsley on May 26, 2005, 06:01:45 PM
Would suggest firming up your games suite, and perhaps starting development (to alpha stage maybe) of your headlining subscription game before shelling out too much on advertising.
can you please repeat same thing in different words? I'm not realy sure if IÂ understood what do you mean... (in fact I'm almost sure I didn't :) )
QuoteIBN might be a decent purchase, although I haven't really looked into that side of things too much.
again, what is IBN???
IBN is one of those software packages that gets your link to the top of search engine sites. It's just one of the better ones that doesn't rely on hiding a reference to your site on a hundred other sites.
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Don't spend too much cash on advertising until you have a product to sell, or at least the idea of a product.
Well I'm sort of sceptic when hearing about something that "gets your link to the top of seacrh engine". But ok, some such companies MAY be serious (but 95% of them sure are not). Anyway, it should not be hard to get references and learn whether it really works.
I agree.
I forgot to mention: OMGN.com
much like mpogd
Ignored again... :'(
Quote from: Bakster on May 27, 2005, 02:16:10 PM
Ignored again... :'(
Tutorial would be nice thing... I have no time to make one :(  Perhaps it would be enough to improve game rules, add some screenshots etc
I totally agree. publicity is the key. i spent weeks looking for Cyber Wars and trawled through an awful lot of useless info before i found duelboard// pestering Yahoo wont work now, so the people on those forums need to be told that this is the site. power to duelboard!
Thank you. If you know about some forum with people with interested in this game, feel free to mention it.
WildTigre/Mase and I also play another online game. He did advertise Duelboard there, and I assure that several players actually checked it out :) I think it's a lot easier to advertise in a smaller community where you are more intimate with people. I think the only problem right now is the fact that cyber battles in itself takes some patience to learn, well, most games do. Unfortunately, that intimidates some :\ The only other thing is the lack of players, giving people no one to play against; I know that's exactly what's trying to be helped here :D
Matlu, whats the population size of duelboard now? I know ive seen quite a few people around, seems like more than 100.
Quote from: The_Gu3st on July 30, 2005, 08:19:21 PM
Matlu, whats the population size of duelboard now? I know ive seen quite a few people around, seems like more than 100.
not sure, seems like round 150 distinct people connects daily
What population size is suitable for 'tourneys'? I have heard so much about the old tournaments on games domain, and i would love for them to happen here. :D
Matlu i did my own advertising to my friends one of which I introduced to this game anima and goof_troop, loooser. ;D
Quote from: anima on July 31, 2005, 07:22:55 PM
What population size is suitable for 'tourneys'? I have heard so much about the old tournaments on games domain, and i would love for them to happen here. :D
I'd love to have more too. Infact, we have already had one tournament which was purely a practice session to see how things would run. Then, for the second tourney we didnt get enough se we extened te dealine 2 weeks and we got like a total of 8-10 players. We decided it wasnt worth it and to postpone them till further notice, but now it seems like we might be able to. (although I'm having my doubts again since only 2 people have registered in the past 4 days.)
Sweet! I just realized something! On msn messenger, you can make your own emoticons. The other day, I tried out an animated gif pic of a spideroid and it works!
This got me thinking. Soon there will be loads of spideroids floating around msn messenger! Maybe there could be a way to use this for promotion of the game ???
Just a thought
lol, but nobody would know what it it and they would just think there are a bunch of spider-freaks running around.
hehe there are a bunch of spider freaks running around.
Quote from: anima on August 13, 2005, 03:28:05 PM
Sweet! I just realized something! On msn messenger, you can make your own emoticons. The other day, I tried out an animated gif pic of a spideroid and it works!
This got me thinking. Soon there will be loads of spideroids floating around msn messenger! Maybe there could be a way to use this for promotion of the game ???
Just a thought
Give me them!!
...but I already have tons of custom emoticons... ;D
I have saw an increase of players since the last tournament, probably around 15.
Could have been from me and Anima spamming forums ;D
I was just thinking that when i was looking for this game i went to www.gamesdomain.com b/c thats wut it used to be but is now owned by yahoo or something. Would you think it to be possible that yahoo could put a link on there website that would advertise this website and let returning players and possible new players know where to play cyber battles? The reason i think it might work is b/c there was a rather large petition going around that was asking yahoo to bring back the old cyber wars.....the they could atleast let ppl know where to find it!
Until then, go vote.
heh, I got addicted to it I'll suggest it to addictinggames.com? ;)
i already did a while back, but maby if more people suggest it, they will put it on
How do you do that?
http://www.addictinggames.com/contact/
put suggest a game as subject