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Archives (read only) => Vanilla Glest => General discussion => Topic started by: John.d.h on 2 March 2010, 20:48:00
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I've noticed a few posts around the board lately that relate to the idea of getting more people interested in playing Glest. This is something we really need to happen, because more people means more development, so this thread is meant as a central collection of ideas to get more people interested in Glest.
- Slashdot
- Digg
- Reddit
- ModDB (Glest is already on ModDB, but it would help if more people would post their mods/tilesets/maps, etc., so that people can see how much content we're making!)
- Facebook (there's already a Glest fan page)
- Wikipedia (keeping the article current and interesting)
- Twitter
We need more ideas, so post them here and I'll add them to the list. Thanks.
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I've already submitted something about Glest to slashdot just today. :)
I talked a bit about the development forks, and that Official Original Glest is no longer under development.
Make sure you talk about the forums! ;)
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I think the best site would be ModDB, because anybody who's on the site is already looking for games. Glest is already on the site, but only a couple mods are listed.
I've already submitted something about Glest to slashdot just today. :)
I talked a bit about the development forks, and that Official Original Glest is no longer under development.
Make sure you talk about the forums! ;)
That's one of the things that prompted me to post this topic, actually, along with Little Helper's wallpapers and Glest Network's recruitment topic. I figured we could compile everything together for better discussion.
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I made a glest thing (http://apps.facebook.com/glest-guys-fjhbif/?link=dashboard) on face book a wile back. :D
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Uploading screenshots
Or making wallpapers, logo, etc.
Making videos/uploading videos... lol ::)
Yeah...uploading all mods on ModDB...
Updating the wikis...
Update the Wikipedia page for Glest...
Tweet it, retweet it... ::)
Spread the word. :)
update this forum, improve this forum, update the site, improve the site. ::) :P
:)
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Wassat?
Heard of, but no clue what it is or how to use it.
See Slashdot reply.
- ModDB (Glest is already on ModDB, but it would help if more people would post their mods/tilesets/maps, etc., so that people can see how much content we're making!)
Good idea, but everyone's so lazy... Maybe one or two people could do it, since I think you need an account anyway. (I think I made one long ago, but don't remember it's username/password).
- Facebook (there's already a Glest fan page)
Yup, joined that a while ago. Seems a bit old and doesn't really promote that well though, since you gotta know what to look for...
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Quote from: John.d.h on Today at 16:52:48
* Slashdot
Wassat?
*Facepalm* That is like the #1 site in the world!!! :D
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I got some people from school to get interested since they like games like glest! ;D
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Slashdot is like a news site...I think people submit their recommended "news"...not sure...
Reddit is the kinda the same thing
Good idea, but everyone's so lazy... Maybe one or two people could do it, since I think you need an account anyway. (I think I made one long ago, but don't remember it's username/password).
That's what I was thinking. Although it would be better if we could be less lazy and upload our own mods/stuff ourselves... note me I guess...didn't "contribute":... yet
Quote from: John.d.h on Today at 16:52:48
* Slashdot
Wassat?
*Facepalm* That is like the #1 site in the world!!! :D
Nerd. kidding but seriously.... that's the "subtitle" [whatever it is called] of the page...
::) :P joking...
I got some people from school to get interested since they like games like glest! ;D
Yeah Spread the word. :)
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I submitted something to Slashdot already, now I just have to wait...
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I'm actually taking a look at slashdot. It might be an interesting site...
Here's my ideas for 'spreading the word':
-Game Developement/Programming forums, they always have help wanted and announcing sections, where you can promoted glest and maybe get some coders too!
-Fan Games Boards - Ditto!
-Download.com - we have this, but it's badly ranked. Is there anyway to help this?
-Computer Sites that have forums, you may be able to get a few people from
-Every list of freeware games possible
-Improve the wikipedia (the real wikipedia, NOT the glest wiki) article for Glest, to make it more accurate, uptodate, and interesting.
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Honestly, I've never really been on Digg, but basically you can submit an article or link and people can dig it (vote up) or bury it (vote down). Thus, the articles that have the best rating getting the most press while ones with the worst rating kinda fall by the wayside. Reddit and Slashdot are similar, I think.
@ Ultifd: Maybe you could spice up the video section on ModDB. It's currently very lacking.
http://www.moddb.com/games/glest/videos/add (http://www.moddb.com/games/glest/videos/add)
-Game Developement/Programming forums, they always have help wanted and announcing sections, where you can promoted glest and maybe get some coders too!
-Fan Games Boards - Ditto!
Specifics would help.
-Download.com - we have this, but it's badly ranked. Is there anyway to help this?
If you mean the user rating, you can improve it by giving it five stars. You can also write a review saying how it's a good game with an awesome forum community. If there's an editor rating, there ain't jack you can do about that. :P
-Computer Sites that have forums, you may be able to get a few people from
-Every list of freeware games possible
Such as?
-Improve the wikipedia (the real wikipedia, NOT the glest wiki) article for Glest, to make it more accurate, uptodate, and interesting.
Agreed. Volunteers? :)
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-Game Developement/Programming forums, they always have help wanted and announcing sections, where you can promoted glest and maybe get some coders too!
-Fan Games Boards - Ditto!
-Computer Sites that have forums, you may be able to get a few people from
Yeah...I think a few users recently did that and they got banned for some reason... ::) :P
-Download.com - we have this, but it's badly ranked. Is there anyway to help this?
We have a 5 star rating. What do you mean?
-Every list of freeware games possible
How? By recommending? Most of the sites, the popular ones at least, have Glest already... Although a large number of them is out-dated...by the version they reviewed...
-Improve the wikipedia (the real wikipedia, NOT the glest wiki) article for Glest, to make it more accurate, uptodate, and interesting.
Yeah, I agree. ::) Yep.
:P
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Slashdot works on user and editor submissions (interesting news, book/game reviews, interviews,) most of which are linked to something offsite. It has enough users to kill webservers and sites that aren't prepared to handle a large influx of users suddenly. People comment extensively on the submissions, both while pending and when actively posted. Submissions don't get ranked, just posted or not depending on their expected value to the users. The do get categorized cased on the content, and users see categories they select as of interest to them, plus any that are consudered of general interest. As new things post, old ones get pushed down and eventually (by age, I think) get removed and archived.
I've been a daily slashdot reader/user for many years myself.
On another note, I found Glest via a list of freeware games somewhere online. Finding lists like these and adding Glest is always good. I THINK that I found Glest at freegamedev.net (?).
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Okay, i made some information about glest, maybe we can put in a youtube video? what do you say ultifd?
Hello guys!
I will introduce you to a little known game, it is called glest!
Remember that glest is free!
Yes it is free, and now you probably think, gaaah! another failure project that is trying to pretend to be professional!
no people!
GLEST is a game, made so that it can be modded to work with almost any operating system! (i think!)
Also, i forgot to mention the most important thing of it all...
Excited?
No matter the answer to that...
Glest is a GAME ENGINE used to make modifications to the game glest, and with the, free!!, engine you can make your
own factions species races!
Do not forget to visit the forums, a safe, and secure forum, maintained by thrustable moderators (Titi seems to be
the most active though) wich will learn you how to use glest, install it, even how to model your 3d-models for your faction!
Currently there are are very many mods in development, but extremely many more has been created!
i say to all you out there, glest has come to stay, and if we keep up our work with it, one day it may become
a succesfull RTS
Glest.Org
Not got enough information?
Well okay, let me tell you about the forums.
The forums are the place were people meet other developers, freinds, and they make somewhat of tournaments, yes,
GLEST is capable of playing MULTI-Player, and a server program is started by the user: Glest Network
Glest network is going to make a server program allowing all players of this game to play online with eachother!
And we have more linux computers ( i think) than windows, so your operating system shouldn`t be a problem, i myself is running
Vista and Win7 on to different computers, works very well, and of course, it is possible to play from a Linux based
OS to a Windows based OS!
Now a little more information about some of our forum members, Little Helper, our design-artist for glest, is putting a lot of
effort into making high quality wallpapers and all of the artstuff!
Archmage is also (i belive our greatest posters with about 3000 posts) posting news at SlashDot, as you can see, this
Game is under a huge development, and new mods are coming almsot at the speed of light!
Got it now?
Glest.ORG
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-Download.com - we have this, but it's badly ranked. Is there anyway to help this?
If you mean the user rating, you can improve it by giving it five stars. You can also write a review saying how it's a good game with an awesome forum community. If there's an editor rating, there ain't jack you can do about that. :P
What I mean is that a few months ago I looked up rts on download.com and couldn't even find glest!!! Dunno if it still is like that, but assumably so (can't check on school computers).
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Okay, i made some information about glest, maybe we can put in a youtube video? what do you say ultifd?
Maybe,I'll think about it... although I don't have to be the one/the only one making videos... and "glest network" is making a video too... he has better software. You also forgot about me...in your "quote..." joking
I THINK that I found Glest at freegamedev.net (?).
Some stuff, but more about MegaGlest...and the people over there still remember the bad aspects of Glest so... ::)
-Download.com - we have this, but it's badly ranked. Is there anyway to help this?
If you mean the user rating, you can improve it by giving it five stars. You can also write a review saying how it's a good game with an awesome forum community. If there's an editor rating, there ain't jack you can do about that. :P
What I mean is that a few months ago I looked up rts on download.com and couldn't even find glest!!! Dunno if it still is like that, but assumably so (can't check on school computers).
I just checked it. It's on the third page if you select from Games>Strategy Games>Real-Time Strategy Games... So yeah...but the editor seems to like it... ::) :P
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Okay, i made some information about glest, maybe we can put in a youtube video? what do you say ultifd?
Maybe,I'll think about it... although I don't have to be the one/the only one making videos... and "glest network" is making a video too... he has better software. You also forgot about me...in your "quote..." joking
If you were to realease a vid, would you mention yourself in a advertisement?
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Okay, i bought AAE, and now i think ima buy fraps aswell, then i will record the true power of glest and make a professional trailer!
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Okay, i made some information about glest, maybe we can put in a youtube video? what do you say ultifd?
Maybe,I'll think about it... although I don't have to be the one/the only one making videos... and "glest network" is making a video too... he has better software. You also forgot about me...in your "quote..." joking
If you were to realease a vid, would you mention yourself in a advertisement?
It depends.
so maybe...
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Okay, i got sony vegas 9.0 pro AAE and Fraps, ready to capture HD videos for a supreme glest advertisement video, Any suggestion what ki8nd of video style i should use as a base of editing?
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I told my math teacher about glest... guess what happuned!!!
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You tell us...
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My class might be trying 3d-modeling
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Sweet! :O Someone used/embed one of my videos. :thumbup:
(spanish) :thumbup:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/juegos/4971992/Orcos-y-Magos-de-Saruman-vs-Guerreros-de-Rohan.html
http://taringa.net/posts/juegos/4971992/Orcos-y-Magos-de-Saruman-vs-Guerreros-de-Rohan.html
http://turingsoftware.blogspot.com/2010/03/orcos-y-magos-de-saruman-vs-guerreros.html
:thumbup:
Might be a start... or not. :O ::)
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Sorry for Double Post.
@ Ultifd: Maybe you could spice up the video section on ModDB. It's currently very lacking.
http://www.moddb.com/games/glest/videos/add
Done. :| ::) http://www.moddb.com/games/glest/videos
It's not that hard to...I mean it's slow but... :| ::)
Yeah, people should just upload their mods to Mod DB, it's easy...
:thumbup: :O
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You have to wait for ModDB to verify your upload, that takes at least a day which is very annoying... :|
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I put vbros up on moddb, and the long wait is annoying. ::)
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Yeah, but we need to try our best to... ::)
Or not. :O
I'll do my part. :)
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If you know of any other web sites I can post Vbros just tell me, OK?
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If you know of any other web sites I can post Vbros just tell me, OK?
Filefront?
Don't know...I'll see. :|
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File front... ya I don't know, I like having control of my downloads... ::)
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File front... ya I don't know, I like having control of my downloads... ::)
I see. I guess. :|
You guys could always record some gameplay or something...then we'll "bombard" youtube with videos. I don't know... ::)
EDIT: I never saw anything about Glest on Slashdot... ::) :|
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Slashdot is confusing, I thought I submitted something a while ago, but I never heard anything about it... :confused:
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Slashdot is confusing, I thought I submitted something a while ago, but I never heard anything about it... :confused:
Well maybe it didn't get "accepted" or something. ::)
OT: OMG, almost 3,500 Posts! Congratz. Or not. :|
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Yes, they need to accept them.
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Yay!!!
3500 posts!!!
....Oh wait, I'm behind myself.......
Yay!!!!!
3501 posts!!!!!!!!!!! :cheesy:
Yah, Slashdot has to accept it, but I dunno if they have or not, I mean I put quite a bit of work into it......... :-X
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Yah, Slashdot has to accept it, but I dunno if they have or not, I mean I put quite a bit of work into it......... :-X
Yeah, maybe someone else can try again later, or you...again. ::)
What's the process...? How do you... whats it like? :|
Umm... ::)
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It's quite confusing... :P
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But if it ever gets out there, man people will be downloading it like crazy!
I know because a wile back we posted about a gave (It was quite the story BTW) and people were storming the web site.
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Well, at least ModDB finally "approved" your packs... ::)
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Sweet! :O Someone used/embed one of my videos. :thumbup:
(spanish) :thumbup:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/juegos/4971992/Orcos-y-Magos-de-Saruman-vs-Guerreros-de-Rohan.html
http://taringa.net/posts/juegos/4971992/Orcos-y-Magos-de-Saruman-vs-Guerreros-de-Rohan.html
http://turingsoftware.blogspot.com/2010/03/orcos-y-magos-de-saruman-vs-guerreros.html
:thumbup:
Might be a start... or not. :O ::)
I told you this would happen! :D
Ha ha look at the comments! They're all like :o :o .
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Sweet! :O Someone used/embed one of my videos. :thumbup:
(spanish) :thumbup:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/juegos/4971992/Orcos-y-Magos-de-Saruman-vs-Guerreros-de-Rohan.html
http://taringa.net/posts/juegos/4971992/Orcos-y-Magos-de-Saruman-vs-Guerreros-de-Rohan.html
http://turingsoftware.blogspot.com/2010/03/orcos-y-magos-de-saruman-vs-guerreros.html
:thumbup:
Might be a start... or not. :O ::)
I told you this would happen! :D
Ha ha look at the comments! They're all like :o :o .
Yeah. I guess. :| ::) :O
:thumbup:
Sweet, Glest is back in first when you either google "free rts' or "free real time strategy"... ::)
then again, I guess it doesn't really matter. :|
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Yes it dose, then more guys will download it. :)
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Yes it dose, then more guys will download it. :)
I guess. :|
But uh, Softpedia is promoting Glest... See? ::) Well, megaglest, in fact.
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/Megaglest.shtml
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Megaglest-Patch.shtml
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I've now sent in a second update! :o
Are they not getting my point or something?
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I've now sent in a second update! :o
Are they not getting my point or something?
Well, I just posted about this since it is related to Promoting Glest :|, but uh, talk about this in the megaglest topic, because for some reason (I) believe it is more relevant. ::) Even though this is more related to promoting glest, megaglest rules over it when uh relating to it... ::)
Here.
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=4930.msg45786#new
Thanks. :) :thumbup:
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Yah, I didn't really notice where I was posting... :|
*slaps self* :P
*cuts self in half* :-\
JK, JK, JK!!! ;D
Ok, back on topic!
Uh..........
Promoting Glest= Promoting MegaGlest! :D
Your videos are gradually spreading around the world wide web. Congrats! :thumbup:
I noticed earlier today that Cnet has and old version of Glest...
How can I contact them?
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true, but Glest is also GAE and such... so... yeah. :O
http://upload.cnet.com/4370-21_5-499-108.html
there, I'm really not sure.
About my vids, yes, they actually do make a difference. (somehow) I got at least some views, everyday.
Right now I have 4000+ views :O
So yeah...
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Oh God, a big registration mess, I'm good. :look:
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Well, one of my vids got embedded again, although it is not one of the better ones....then again, all of them are kinda... ::) oh well ...
http://www.nextgenupdate.com/forums/playstation-3-questions/144064-running-glest-ps3.html
Related to about running Glest on a ps3, and that it is shit... ::)