Who thinks There should be a Commercial For Blockland?

[Psykotik]

I just want to point out that the majority of people who play blockland aren't noobs. There only seem to be so many because they stick out like soar thumbs when they do come along. Advertising and spreading word about blockland is an amazing idea. More modders, developers, and players will help the world of blockland grow and evolve; which is required if blockland is to survive. Right now we have a great community with active modders developers and veteran players to help people go in the right direction and its worked out so far for the size of the community.

I do however feel that if blockland is to maintain the correct environment as it's population grows in size, the forum and community needs to change accordingly. Blockland does have a learning curve, especially if you want to get into the homebrew parts of the community and when it isn't blatantly obvious, it encourages 'nooby' behavior and gives fuel to those that are completely nooby. Granted the exact specifics of this transformation will have to be thought out in more time that it takes to write this post, just adding a general "beginner" section with the very basics covering each subsection of the forum would be of great value.

Also providing moderators for each section or allowing some of the more adept/responsible members of blockland become admins of the sort for the community would help keep noobs in check.

One other thing that I feel to be important is the kind of advertizing that would need to be done. Renting out space on websites and getting banner ad's costs money when there are free solutions. And while posting on forums will attract more noobs than we really want, presenting blockland to other communities such as that of the independent game festival or even PC gamer magazine would attract a huge number of people for free.

Blockland is a cool game and people see that, show it to the right groups and i'de be willing to bet that they would dedicate their resources to helping us grow.

Hopefully badspot will see this, I'd like to hear his direct response to it and to increasing the popularity of blockland in any way.

Hopefully the community will see and reply to this thread, i'm curious to see their opinions on the matter.

i guess my post was too long for all of you too bother reading.

PAYING FOR AIR TIME IS NOT REQUIRED.

Spreading the word by forums and other communities would work just as well if not better and would also prevent you from having to come up with something awesome for a game that really advertises itself to a huge generation of people.

Have you tried entering this game into the independent games festival Badspot? I think PC Gamer is how i first heard about this game in one of their sub columns, I'm sure they'd be interested it seeing how its grown.

You have way to much time on your hands. I think, though, that you have a really good point. And, we should bug the creators of PC Gamer until they put it in :D.

[Ad Bot]

[tapemaster21]

I just want to point out that the majority of people who play blockland aren't noobs.

I read the first line of your post and didn't have time to finish. Where its underlined, you are wrong.

[Psykotik]

Read the rest.

[Maxwell]

well i have some experience editing and adding text effects or other things with after effects so i could help with that =D

edit:ok well for a commercial you would have to hire a professional but for a little video for the site... :D

http://www.mediafire.com/?wiejjdytdtd

That was a good Darkstar, what program do you use?

[Psykotik]

I looooove it.

[IcyGamma]

Nice video. But needs a lot more. (duh)

[Psykotik]

See topic "!!!Urgent!!!"

[DarkStar]

well i have some experience editing and adding text effects or other things with after effects so i could help with that =D

edit:ok well for a commercial you would have to hire a professional but for a little video for the site... :D

http://www.mediafire.com/?wiejjdytdtd

That was a good Darkstar, what program do you use?

adobe after effects

and i dont think it was good for blockland..not blocko enough.

[helllion]

they could make a banner for website

[Nimbus]

They did

[helllion]

they could make a banner for website

or an email invitation and on your page a new list with the number of people already joined blockland because of you 

[Psykotik]

What?

[helllion]

What?

you can send your friends an email invitation by logging in at your hotmail, gmail, etc. on the site from blockland. so when you are logged in, you see all your contacts and you can check and uncheck them. and when you hit confirm, an email has sended to all your checked contacts within an invitation to try blockland. so they must click on a link who sends them to a page with more info.

[Psykotik]

Still makes no sense to me.

[Toadzard]

What?

You can send your friends an email invitation by logging in at your hotmail, gman, etc. on the site from Blockland. So when you are logged in, you see all your contacts and you can check and uncheck them. And when you hit confirm, an email has sent to all your checked contacts within an invitation to try Blockland. So they must click on a link who sends them to a page with more info.

Ewww.

If I were to get a message like that, I would automatically assume it was either a scam, a virus, or some sort of incentive to wreck havoc on other forums.

Fixed, by the way.