The once-a-month thing occurred to me as well, although there are 41
games there now. That's almost a year's worth. Would new games be
added faster than existing games would be showcased? Considering how
quickly games have been added lately, it seems possible.
Hmm... I guess I'm slightly in favour of the game-of-the-month idea
rather than game-of-the-week. Infrequent visitors might miss games if
they were showcased weekly (unless there were a Featured Game Archive
-- that would be cool). Similarly, having a game of the month rather
than a game of the week would extend the "15 minutes of fame" for game
authors to a full hour!
The other question is the number of authors. Although there are 41
games on piecepack.org, I count only 15 individual game authors, many
of them in collaborations, including a couple of credits to Mesomorph
Games. This means that a lot of the author info would be repeated,
sometimes several times.
I'm sorry I don't have anything more positive to say. I like the
idea, but I see a few problems with it. If someone else can suggest
solutions, all the better!
Ron H-E
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:33:21AM -0800, Michael Schoessow wrote:
I like the idea but I think that perhaps it should be once a month or maybe
every two weeks instead of once a week. Are there enough games to feature a
different one every week for very long? Of course I guess you could repeat
after a while.
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Karol [mailto:karol@...]
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 8:00 PM
To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [piecepack] piecepack.org -Ideas
Howdy Folks!
I had an idea that I would like to run by the group. It might be nice to
have a featured game of the week on the piecepack.org
homepage. I envision piecepack.org "staff" chosing the game to feature and
contacting the author a couple of weeks before the
feature. I think it may be extra special if each author had a little bio and
maybe a picture, so the piecepack community can get to
know eachother a little better. I thought it might be nice to also be able
to promote the businesses each author may have. The
stipulation being that any links/information included in the bio be rated G
aka kid-friendly.
What do you think? (feel free to reply privately or publically)