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[AtionSong]

Throw Out Ideas...Cheap But Effictive "Gimmicks"

[Agent Lex]

A random idea that I don't think I'll use (but might be good) is personals/classified ads in the newspaper. It requires you to know your playerbase will read that paper, or you can tell them in advance, and they're pretty cheap. If you can get them cheap enough, perhaps ordering a batch week-on-week to convey more than one message, or parts of a message, might be fun.

[LordIllidan]

What else would be cool is a spin on dead-drops: Leave a box full of trailheads next to a grocery store, and label the box "Take one"

[Euchre]

Heighten player interaction, save lots of money, and involve something away from the computer:
Make a part of it that the players need to chain mail an item through each other to an IG character. Each player has to do something with the mail piece, either adding to it or even replacing it (keeping a previous item, then adding a different one). This could be a sort of treasure hunt where you list the items, and they need to relay or accumulate them in order. Let the players work out the shortest distances to mail the items to each other (or even hand them off I suppose) to establish the route. Alternatively, make the route create an image - as someone did with a GPS (thanks to whomever was in #unfiction that showed me that video).

[krystyn]

What places the game as being "one step above grassroots"?

[AtionSong]

Clarification

[krystyn]

Ah, OK.

Yeah, I would still says it's grassroots at its heart, then, because there have been several games that have been produced on a "cheap" budget but without official sponsorship, or advertising goals. Project Mu and Lockjaw were both "cheap" games, in that respect. (and I mention those because I know how they were structured)

I would, however, like to recommend that Stroopwafels are no longer to be defined as "dessert," but a "daily multivitamin."

WHO'S WITH ME

[Rekidk]