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Tearn
Greenhorn

Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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Location: Sydney Novascotia

New forums going up for ARG's
(dont worry im not trying to compete with unforums )

Hey there guys ive been working on a site for all of us that play ARG's
and for those of us who like to create them and if some of the people here would be up for helping out desiging the theme for the forum and so on also anyone with decent background in PHP would greatly appreciated

(dont mind my spelling errors im running on like 2 hours of sleep again same as when i did alot of the work on Drak-tech >_< which yes i know probaly sucked compared to alot of the other ARG's but it was my groups first attempt )

xxicemanxx.blackapplehost.com is the url all thats currently on the forums is two posts from myself also any ideas for other sections and so on should be sent to either me or blacktrinity on our forums

thanks in advance

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redct
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Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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No offense, or anything; but what do these provide that unfiction doesn't?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:58 am
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Tearn
Greenhorn

Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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Location: Sydney Novascotia

redct wrote:
No offense, or anything; but what do these provide that unfiction doesn't?
well yea thats very true im honestly just trying to get a comunity built up for a future project and as well as one that likes to play ARG's as well as any other games and such and the whole thing is evetualy being turned into a social networking site in a year or so i was originaly doing Drak-tech to advertise for one that is/isnt running now (not officaly running only open to the development team ) as well im hopeing to be able to start a small company to build ARG's for fun and for commercial reasons if and when paid to do so

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Delusional
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Tearn wrote:
well yea thats very true im honestly just trying to get a comunity built up for a future project and as well as one that likes to play ARG's as well as any other games and such and the whole thing is evetualy being turned into a social networking site in a year or so i was originaly doing Drak-tech to advertise for one that is/isnt running now (not officaly running only open to the development team ) as well im hopeing to be able to start a small company to build ARG's for fun and for commercial reasons if and when paid to do so

--Tearn


Sorry to be so blunt, this whole plan reaks of failure. Don't let me stop you from trying but I predict none of this will happen or be successfully.

If you want people to use your site you have to offer something they want, you can't just say 'come use my site so I can later exploit you for profit' and expect to get anywhere. You could also at least try to make it look like you put the least amount of effort into it by not using free hosting and having the site up when advertising it. Did you just come up with this great idea this morning and decide to run with it?

I have no idea what the game you ran is/was but if this is any indication of the quality I feel sorry for the players.

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Tearn
Greenhorn

Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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honestly i worded my last post in a very wrong way and yea your right
about everyting you said mind you the site that i was advertizing was to be operationalby the time the game ran through but i wasnt the person developing it i worked on some parts yes and those were small at best

and even now part of the reason my game stopped so suddenly is i found out there was no reason to continue it at the time as the site itself was running extremly behind its operationl expectations and i was also doing it for free so i guess that doesnt help very much does it ? but basicly what im saying is im not asking just for people to "come to my site and use it right away" but more of a "come help me build this into a respectable community kind of a thing" but yes i have tried with other sites a few times and it has failed im not going to deny that but hopefully this time ill at least get soemthing going the site itself will actualy be up within about 2 hours from this post as im working on the last of it now

unfortunately the forums i have no idea how to create a proper theme so im most likley switching to another system

and as for the free hosting im only using atm because my credit card is maxed and also the name is suposed to be Reality is a Game but i misread something with the free host and im stuck with the xxicemanxx url >_<

(sorry for long winded post *sigh* here come the flames )

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25223 btw link to the thread for my game

EDIT: the url for my forums and website will be changing in the next few hours as im moving to a new host ill post a new url here for anyone that might be interested

but i dout that anyone is so meh look if you want

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DeadbyDawn
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I don't mind taking a look and lending some time to someone in the community, but a proper link to the forum would be nice! I tried to go to your forum and just got a message about account successfully created? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:23 pm
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natas
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I wouldn't mind helping out either. It will allow me to learn more about design and what-not. Let me know what I can do.

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redct
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I can help out too with the design and coding side.
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