Pre-Promotion (part 5)

[gorboth]

(Promotion Gear Up - Post 5 of 6)

To continue the discussion of our out-of-game needs prior to promotion, the
most obvious one is the way in which a new user will play the game for the
first time. Without this, we really have nothing to offer.

Our existing "PLAY NOW" client is functional. It, however, is very unlovely
and does not say "this is cool" in any way shape or form. The default text
size is too large for the small screen, and (for example) most of the magic
map images are large enough to scroll halfway beyond the screen size when
you call up your first map image in the tutorial. The client itself does
very little to help people understand how to play the game or what they
are looking at on screen.

A very exciting development came along in the person of the wizard
Sandalphon, who is an expert back-end programmer for just these sorts of
applications in RL, and who has agreed to tinker with a proprietary client
for Genesis that new users can download before playing our game for the
first time. The initial steps into this setup have shown me that Sandalphon
is indeed very talented and can hopefully make this a reality. It remains
a big project that is not very far along, however. I am excited by what
he will be able to accomplish, but this, perhaps more than any other thing,
remains a far sight off from completion.

Again, if any of you are talented with this sort of thing, we would love
to know about it. It has come time to ask for help, and gratefully accept
it from those of you who have time and talents to share.

The last thing on the external list of things needed for preparation is
the category of "promotional materials."

Here, again, my plan is to call upon Denis Loubet. I would like to pay him
to provide us with a splendid promotional poster that features excellent and
compelling fantasy artwork similar to what he has provided for the website.
The poster is something that could be mass-produced and used in our initial
grass-roots promotional efforts in our own RL locales. The distribution
itself, along with other promotional efforts will be discussed in detail
down the road as the time for promotion draws nigh. At that time, it will
be appropriate for all of you who would come to the cause of your favorite
game to step forward and volunteer your own time to do what you can in
RL to make promotion work. Start thinking about that - I'll be calling
on you down the road! (not too far off, we hope!)

In addition, Mr. Loubet could be paid to create promotional web banners and
the like that we could use to canvas the internet in our own individual ways
as we find the opportunity when it comes to the big push.

This brings me to the final post, which will discuss the bottom line, and
what you can do about it.

G.

[gorboth]

This post cannot be effectively deleted from this part of the forum, but I am locking the topic here and have merged it with the Pre-Promotion section of Keeper's Korner. Please reference that area for consolidated discussion on these topics.

G.