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[gazdemon]

Gazdemon = Goofball

[SpaceBass]

I'd recommend attending this upcoming PM chat, to be hosted by imbri, and putting a bit more planning into your next effort.

Sorry about your uncle.

[Dorkmaster]

Your apology is all that was required. Thanks for doing so. I also encourage you to attend the chat. I think it will be informative, and beyond that, I think many members will respect your resolve to learn what PMing a game for a critical crowd really takes.

Best of luck in the future.

[CreativeEmbassy]

I would HIGHLY recommend joining BTS of another game by a PM who's known to have successful stuff. Then, you can contribute and see how a game works behind the curtain, before starting your own. In fact, I've been BTS of quite a few games (I can't mention any of them because they all have to end first, lol), but I have yet to even think about PMing my own game.

And sorry to hear about your uncle.

[MageSteff]

Here I was all set to pimp Imbri's chat only to find that Space has done that already.

gazdemon, I'm a goofball at least once a day, and six times on Sunday. I have chronic foot-in-mouth disease, and make more mistakes than I like all the time. You are allowed to beat yourself up about it one time publicly; then it is like the Japanese and nakedness - everyone sees, no one notices. Hey, if a Major network can have an ARG implode (Push, Nevada) why should anyone else be immune.

There are a lot of differnt forums out there. What you did here they would welcome over at IU, because they have a different "terms of use." I would suggest that you familiarize yourself with areas that can be used in game and areas that are strictly out-of-game, you get less bruises that way.

Don't be afraid to ask questions, the more questions the better. If you are worried about what people may think, I can ask them for ya and take all the ribbing. I ask enough dumb ones myself that no one will notice an extra one tossed in now and then.

And as many novelists say, if you want to become a better writer, Read, read, read, the good and the bad, and decide for yourself which one you want to emulate.

Oh, and if you haven't stopped by the #Unfiction Chat room on Chat-solutions.org, please do, its a good place to listen, learn about some of your potential players, and hang out and talk about stuff people normally talk about while hanging out.

Hope to see you around.

[Ehsan]

Gazdemon,

I will accept your apology if you accept mine for trying to rip apart your ARG attempt.

I do have a few enquiries, but I hope you don't think of this as an interrogation. I am simply trying to better understand a certain phenomenon which has repeated itself here time and time again.

- How did you find out about ARGs? Was there a specific game you followed?

- How long have you been around (perhaps as a lurker?) before attempting to make your own ARG?

- Why did you decided to make an ARG? This question is particularly of interest to me.. what was your target audience, and what were you really trying to achieve?

- Were you serious about the game? Certain elements of your attempt were really not that polished, so were you attempting parody? Was it the best you could do?

Again, I hope you don't feel I'm overstepping my bounds with these questions. You can ignore this if I am.

It's just that I've seen this happen several times now. Newly registered users coming up with their own version of an ARG only to find out that it doesn't work well.. I personally need to understand their motives to figure out how to better support them into the community.

[gazdemon]

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[Ehsan]

Thank you.. I feel much better knowing that you were around here for quiete a while before trying to do something, and that it was in fact a parody

[gazdemon]

Happy to help!

[krystyn]

I really did like the TTFN, man.

[urthstripe]

Dude, the TTFN was utterly brilliant. Akin to the AUUUUUUUUUUGH scene in Holy Grail.