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Geek Culture / Game Torpedo - Indie game showcase site

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flashing snall
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That would be a great thing to do actually. I would love to see the relation ship between the solid gamer, and the solid developer.



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z_man
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Yea - that's something I hope the site achieves - gamers giving feedback to developers.

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z_man
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It's been a long time since there's been a post in this thread, so I'll just post a few updates:

- Developer profile system
- A few bug fixes
- Sorting games by genre
- Almost 40 games and projects
- Another article addition
- More to come

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Lonnehart
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Um... when you say "any development tool", does that include the ancient Klik & Play?

yeah... after all these years I still have my disc and I still play with the program once in a while... x_x

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z_man
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Sure, just file it under 'Other' when it asks for the game development tool.

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SunnyKatt
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The site is great, now all you need to do is advertise and get it to a wide audience.

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flashing snall
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Yea, if you get some advertising it would be great. Im loving it already though, I find it a great place to get my games uploaded to link my friends too. If I dont want to link them to a geeky dev forum, or our silly sgp home page.

Btw, Im up to 3 submissions now.

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Yup, I signed-up and it's a handy little site and it's not as cluttered as GGE. I've got a few clicks and downloads.

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flashing snall
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I hate TGGE ... so much.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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@Punk13

Slightly off topic but you do realise that the name Zork has already been used as the title for one of the earliest text adventure games?

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Diru
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Game Torpedo/99999999999999999999999 > GGE^999999999999



GGE is horrible. I also posted my game there and some random idiot tried to add himself to the dev team. Don't get me started on the layout
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Feature requests:

-Inclusion of homebrew platforms in the platform selector.
-Change of platform selector from combobox to checkboxes.

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z_man
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Thanks, NeX, I'll add those to the suggestions list.

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Phosphoer
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Love the idea, I shall register and upload my current project as well

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Fuzz
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Signed up

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z_man
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Thanks for joining, Phosphoer and fuzz!

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flashing snall
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Now your at 53 submissions!
Whoo!

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Yeh, I love the way Game Torpedo seems to be catching on quite well I think it's really well done and a smart idea. gratz @ z_man

By the way - when's it coming out of beta?

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It's nice in many ways, the community is really helpful and friendly.

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Travis Gatlin
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heeey i just joined before i saw this thread!!

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z_man
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Quote: "Yeh, I love the way Game Torpedo seems to be catching on quite well I think it's really well done and a smart idea. gratz @ z_man

By the way - when's it coming out of beta?"


Cheers C0wbox, I haven't really set a date for the beta to end - I suppose once there are no bug reports for a couple of months or so running.

Thanks for all your support, everyone!

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Sid Sinister
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I'm really happy to see this site take off! You should think about putting some ads on the sides to offset cost.

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z_man
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Thanks Sid - I've thought about putting ads on but concluded that the site still isn't busy enough. An alternative option I was contemplating was to have some sort of 'subscriptions' system which is completely optional and extends a few features such as the upload limit. However, I'll probably only attempt to offset the costs if the site becomes increasingly popular.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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You could maybe offer publishing and project management systems eventually. Imagine it, if Game Torpedo could not only help promote your game but then publish it...

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SunnyKatt
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I still think you should build on the developer/player interaction by advertising to players of indie games as well as creators. Right now all you have is a bunch of developers trying to draw attention to their own games.

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z_man
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@NeX - Actual publishing would be great, but that's something to consider in the very distant future.

@ZekeGames - I'm not exactly sure where's the best place to start advertising for gamers though. Any suggestions?

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I would start on forums already populated by people that like to play indie games - like the battle for wesnoth forums and other indie game forums. The players are already there - you just need to make it not look like spam and get them to check out your site.
There's that and good 'ol buying google ads.

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Google Ads is certainly something to consider as a starting point - an initial investment could very well be worth it.

I also need to find an incentive for lurkers to actually join and participate in the community. I've thought through numerous different possibilities, one of them being a daily download limit for non-members. Of course, this sort of thing could easily be bypassed by clearing cookies and/or using a proxy. I would consider implementing a system like this if I also had bandwidth issues, which I don't at the moment.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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TesNexus/Fallout3Nexus, both huge sites now, have a system where downloads bigger than a specific size require a free account and premium servers are available.

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Roxas
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I start working today Plaftrom/Adventure game just for this site =)
I can load some of the hard work from my project to relaxing side project.

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Roxas
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Contributed!

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There is an article called 'Clicks/second' for which the link is broken (probably because the article name has a '/' in)


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z_man
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@Diggsey - Should be working now. Yeah, it seems as though the slash was making the name act like two separate queries.

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z_man
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Update - 2009/08/03

- An RSS Feed containing summaries of the latest games, projects and articles is now available at the following location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GameTorpedo

Thanks
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Roxas
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Z_man have you fixed the issue on one Project submission? It has ' character in its name, therefore its not showing.

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z_man
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You mean the issue found several weeks ago? I'm fairly sure that was fixed, but I could be mistaken.

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Roxas
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http://www.gametorpedo.com/games/peg-'em!

That one

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z_man
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Seems to be working fine for me. Are you having trouble accessing it?

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nackidno
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Works fine for me too.

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Roxas
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Yes, i get page not found. It isn't browser cache problem as opera empties that site cache if you refresh.

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z_man
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I've just reworked the whole URL generation system since it shouldn't have been allowing special characters in the URLs anyway. Tell me if it works for you now.

EDIT: Link to news topic - http://www.gametorpedo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=91&pid=1517&st=0&#entry1517

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Roxas
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Yeah works now !

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z_man
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Great!

Allowing special characters seemed to be causing too many problems to be a viable option.

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Conor B
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Fair play, great site! Just uploaded my air hockey game

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z_man
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Thanks for the submission Conor.

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Conor B
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No probelem, thanks for the great site! Haha, anyway how do the ratings work, do a certain amount of people need to rate your game tand then it shows your rating?

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z_man
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Overall ratings are basically just an average of all the votes, however, there needs to be at least three.

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Conor B
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Well in that case get downloading my game chaps!
Nice game btw z_man, reminded me of when I used to play sky roads!

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Travis Gatlin
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i just submitted a game a few days ago,check it out

yeah im southern WATCHA GONNA DO BOUT IT?
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z_man
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Thanks for the submission travis, I'll be sure to check it out when I get a bit more time on my hands.

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