Taumel: sorry you feel that way. I thought showcase was for finished games/demos and General was more for news/testing and questions and things of interest - perhaps I'm wrong. As Puki says, I've just finished my game and I've got lots of questions come up and things of interest that I thought people might like to know. For example:
- How I made the art ... I thought I was genuinely being helpful posting this (and people commented that they liked it), it's not an advert for anything.
- Please check out new site layout ... people often do this, I just revamped mine and though it would be great if people could offer feedback.
- You got traffic ... yeah OK this is an advert but one where people can make money not loose it.
- Press release ... This is genuine question from me that others might also be interested in the answer.
- Holiday Bonus is Live on my site ... this is the first of my recent posts (except for the one in the Showcase thead about the beta), and if you'd just made a game go live on your site, you'd want to tell people about it and get feedback.
Would you call my other posts about predictions and top 10 games spam as well?
Do people in this forum want to know about selling games or not really? Some do and maybe you don't. Sorry I can't please everyone, and I really don't mean to offend, that's the last thing I want to do. There may be a few more posts over the next few weeks but I'm always concious to keep any actual selling ones to a minimum. I have been a member of the forum for 2 years now and made lots of friends who like to know what's going on and have lots of framework customers (and incidentally helped to improve BMax with my bug finding and BRL hassling), so hopefully I have just as much right as anyone else to post topics related to game programming.
I've removed your from my email list.
- How I made the art ... I thought I was genuinely being helpful posting this (and people commented that they liked it), it's not an advert for anything.
- Please check out new site layout ... people often do this, I just revamped mine and though it would be great if people could offer feedback.
- You got traffic ... yeah OK this is an advert but one where people can make money not loose it.
- Press release ... This is genuine question from me that others might also be interested in the answer.
- Holiday Bonus is Live on my site ... this is the first of my recent posts (except for the one in the Showcase thead about the beta), and if you'd just made a game go live on your site, you'd want to tell people about it and get feedback.
Would you call my other posts about predictions and top 10 games spam as well?
Do people in this forum want to know about selling games or not really? Some do and maybe you don't. Sorry I can't please everyone, and I really don't mean to offend, that's the last thing I want to do. There may be a few more posts over the next few weeks but I'm always concious to keep any actual selling ones to a minimum. I have been a member of the forum for 2 years now and made lots of friends who like to know what's going on and have lots of framework customers (and incidentally helped to improve BMax with my bug finding and BRL hassling), so hopefully I have just as much right as anyone else to post topics related to game programming.
I've removed your from my email list.