PR-project - TTDP and OTTD...

[SAC]

I don't know about you guys, but for someone like me being abscent from this forum at times, it's fairly easy to recognize that the number of active contributors, (graphics and codings), has decreased quite a bit compared to previous years... Mainly that's due to lack of interest, real life committments, amongst other reasons...

While lots of people are involved in new games, I'm pretty sure there are people out there with an interest for "older" games such as TTDLX, and I believe we have a responsibility to advertise our work with the game, both TTDP and OTTD, in order to attract new people - some of them with skills in graphics and/or coding... While I believe there's potential out there, attracting them to our place could benefit in more people being active contributors, and at the same time those currently working on TTDP/OTTD would perhaps benefit from less burdons...

How about if we take upon ourselves to visit at least one game forum/month and "advertise" our work with TTDP/OTTD along with "before&after" images to showcase what has been achieved so far? The best would of course be if we could agree on some basic information and screens for this particular purpose... Any ideas or suggestions? Or should we give this a rest?

[PikkaBird]

I'm afraid I'd disagree with both your premise and your suggestion. As far as your premise goes, this forum is more than active enough, we have as many newgrf developers as we've ever had, and while TTDPatch is effectively dead, OpenTTD is going from strength to strength. On the suggestion front, people who are interested in this sort of game will find their way here, and those people who are part of other communities will tell their friends about it. People from here joining and spamming random forums would be neither effective nor appropriate.

[XeryusTC]

I have to agree with Pikka here, the graphics section is busier than ever and the OTTD section has been blooming after the release of 1.0.0. I think that this growth is mainly because most IT/(indy) gaming websites have reported it's release and I think that this word-of-mouth kind of advertising is more useful than spamming gaming forums.

[planetmaker]

+1 @ Pikka

[SAC]

Nothing to be afraid of... It was merely an idea based on my own observations, and it may be that since I'm devoted to play TTDP - at least for now - I tend to recognize the development in that particular area...

Even so, I personally think that attracting "new blood" can never be wrong, so I will at least take upon myself to "advertise" our existance whenever I get a chance...

[AndersI]

... TTDPatch is effectively dead ...

I'll have to disagree with you on this one. TTDPatch isn't dead (it's only pining for the fjords) - what about cargodest and newobjects? But the TTDPatch part of the forums are relatively silent, yes.

[michael blunck]

... TTDPatch is effectively dead ...

I'll have to disagree with you on this one.

There, he moved!

TTDPatch isn't dead (it's only pining for the fjords) [...]

I know a dead parrot when I see one.



regards
Michael