They Make Games

Discussion in 'Public Game Developers Forum' started by rhansson, Dec 12, 2011.

  1. rhansson

    rhansson Well-Known Member

    Check out www.TheyMakeGames.com

    I just launched a Beta of this new community this morning. They Make Games mission is to help indie developers with promotion for successful self publishing, and much more. Sign up for a free account!

    Let me know what you think!

    /Rasmus
     
  2. blitter

    blitter Well-Known Member

    Looks interesting, I signed up but didn't have any (250x250 pix) artwork for the form prepared. Since then I either can't login or the account wasn't created?
     
  3. givenstage

    givenstage Well-Known Member

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    This looks interesting... The form asked for pricing range, is this suppose to be a participation in an outsource list of indie developers? (just curious...)
     
  4. mr_wexer

    mr_wexer Well-Known Member

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    Signed up :) Looks interesting.

    What ever happened to that 'Who needs Chill and go' site? I know they re-branded but not sure to what name..
     
  5. rhansson

    rhansson Well-Known Member

    blitter, Thank you for your interest. You are the first person to register so I apologize for the inconvenience.

    You may add artwork at a later point but did you ever click SAVE LISTING at the bottom of the page? I assume no since I could not find your account in the system.

    I added a save box right after you slide the CAPTCHA lock and write a description saying that you can enter game information at any point.

    Thanks for providing the bug report!
    /Rasmus
     
  6. rhansson

    rhansson Well-Known Member

    Thank you. It's very exciting and I hope it will be very useful to many of you!

    /Rasmus
     
  7. rhansson

    rhansson Well-Known Member

    Regarding pricing range. It is for developers who does work for hire. My goal is to connect you with publisher opportunities.

    /Rasmus
     
  8. o-b-o

    o-b-o Member

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    Great idea and I'd like to sign up but... I cannot slide the bar :(
    (Mac OS X 10.6.6 & Safari 5.0.3)
     
  9. givenstage

    givenstage Well-Known Member

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    Signed up! hope it went through though... I wonder if you guys do indie app bundle kinda events?
     
  10. rhansson

    rhansson Well-Known Member

    givenstage. thanks a lot for signing up. give me your username and I'll check. It should be ok if you got the success message.

    TheyMakeGames is a community and tool for indie developers, by indie developers. We make the rules and decide what's best for us.

    I did not make this site for me, I made it for us.

    /Rasmus
     
  11. givenstage

    givenstage Well-Known Member

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    Thx rhansson, someone at the chat session of the site just did a check and confirmed our registration :) I like the concept, so keep up the good work!
     
  12. rhansson

    rhansson Well-Known Member

    I think they have a great vision and maybe there will be opportunities for collaboration.http://selfpubd.com. This is their new Website. They are focusing on Apps and to be honest, I don't really see how they are any different from Chill n Go.

    I think intentions are good from both companies but their focus is unfortunately not in the right place.

    /Rasmus
     
  13. o-b-o

    o-b-o Member

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    I was trying to do this using iPad (and Safari) but without any luck.

    But finally I was able to sign up using Chrome (in Windows environment) ;)

    I don't know what was the issue... with Safari?

    Best!
     
  14. blitter

    blitter Well-Known Member

    Hi, sorry for late reply I was celebrating a double birthday yesterday! I did come back, but read the word 'publisher' and went back to what I was doing. I've been talking with a publisher, and although they have a very good eye and my game now plays better (minor update) - they're never satisfied! When I approached them I wanted a fast investment for Xmas and advertising...guess I will have a think about it now as Xmas is just about here already.

    Here's what happened when I filled out the form (1st...cool!)

    On page 2, you mention the optimal size for artwork is 250x250 pixels. I minimized Safari to resize some assets, but when I returned to Safari your page was nowhere to be found. I figured as I got to page 2 then some info of the form would have been saved. Being beta I then posted rather than retry, so you could investigate if anything did go wrong or not.

    I just presumed there was an 'auto-save' from the moment I was ready for the next page.

    Your Captcha slider: I remember there being tiny buttons on the slider-tip...it must be very tricky to grab these without a pointer? Maybe you can catch a swipe in your site's code, rather than have the user initiate the perfect touch!
     
  15. Luke Kellett

    Luke Kellett Well-Known Member

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    I've signed up, I'm quite interested to see where your site goes. From what I can tell the concept is good, looking forward to using it :)
     
  16. smashdev2011

    smashdev2011 Well-Known Member

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    Seems interesting, good luck!
     
  17. Hercule

    Hercule Well-Known Member

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    Just sign in.
    But the compression ratio on the 250*250 game picture are really hard...
    You should increase the quality.
     
  18. blitter

    blitter Well-Known Member

    Arg! Tried again but the Captcha doesn't slide on iPad.

    Have you had many applications?
     

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