Drac's opinions are his own and have nothing to do with the game (as far as I know, haven't read all of them :P)
The PR we've had has been fairly limited apart from the two magazines mentioned, they did get a fair number of people downloading the game but the trickle of players coming in wasn't fast enough to build up a community.
Majority of the time they'd come on, find no one else on and just give up there and then....
That and the game wasn't fully 100% complete
So yes the idea is to advertise a launch time, get a fair number of players to start at exactly the same time... then keep the game appearing on a load of other sites for a week or two to keep new players come in. Hopefully it will then pretty much take care of itself.
That'll happen in the next few weeks once I'm happy the code is stable.
The PR we've had has been fairly limited apart from the two magazines mentioned, they did get a fair number of people downloading the game but the trickle of players coming in wasn't fast enough to build up a community.
Majority of the time they'd come on, find no one else on and just give up there and then....
That and the game wasn't fully 100% complete
So yes the idea is to advertise a launch time, get a fair number of players to start at exactly the same time... then keep the game appearing on a load of other sites for a week or two to keep new players come in. Hopefully it will then pretty much take care of itself.
That'll happen in the next few weeks once I'm happy the code is stable.