Ideas for promoting Tremulous.

[dude11235]

This is a gonna be a bit wall-of-texty so bear with me.

A few (unnamed) people have been complaining about trem dying. While I'm sick of the poorly placed blame and even poorer ability to utilize spell check I do have to agree with them. The fact is trem isn't what it used to be. I was playing this game before MW first started (shudder) and when the BEER clan was the most l33t. There were more servers than one hoped to bother with and many were chalk full of people playing and having fun. Needless to say this was awesome; but enough with my nostalgia induced rants.

My solution is simple and easy to execute: kill the batman. Community promotion of Tremulous. Sounds to easy? That's because it is! I have a few ideas listed below.

Via other forums.
A lot of us are on more than one forum (probably) and we can easily promote there. I'm not saying creepy promotion along the lines of PMing people to play trem or posting new topics about "this gret game LOLOLOL!1!!11!!1" But something like: Having tremulous related things in your siggy or bringing it up in relevant conversation and posts. I'll give some examples.

In ones siggy they could have something as simple as this:
What is Tremulous?

Or something more complicated like a banner or a gif etc.

The point is people would see that and become interested and that's what we want!

Something I want to point out is that the average internet user is a hard, cold and calculating man (or woman) who is immune to the mass of advertising that is so un-sacredly and relentlessly shelled unto them. But we have a secret weapon...Our product is actually free unlike those MMOs and warrock-esque games. This goes into my next example of forum advertising (if you want to call it that.)

Posting about Tremulous.

When one posts about trem I'm not talking about this:

User: BillyBob      |Hey guys did you see that new movie about that cat with AIDS?///?
Posts: 4238        |
Location: In your |
mom lol!!1!         |


User: TremulousFan!    |GUYS GUYS!!11!!1! PLAY THIS GREAT AWESOME GAME!!111!!1! IT WILL GET YOU LAID!!1 
Posts: 3                |www.tremulous.net!!!11!1111!            
Location: In my mom's | 
basement playing trem!|


User: BillyBob      |Ban the troll please.
Posts: 4239        |
Location: In your |
mom lol!!1!         |

Because that's what will happen, you will get banned.

I'm talking more like bringing trem up in conversations where people will appreciate it like:

User: BillyBob      |Does anyone know a good casual game I should play? I'm kinda bored with all these games that I 
Posts: 4238        |have to pay a bunch for and invest a lot of time to get good gear. I just want to have some fun.
Location: In your |
mom lol!!1!         |


User: TremulousFan!    |There's this free game called Tremulous that I really like (couldn't tell by the name huh?) it's not 
Posts: 3                |a pretend free to play like a lot of those mmos out there and it's really fun. You don't             
Location: In my mom's |have much to lose because it's free. Here's the link www.tremulous.net.
basement playing trem!|

Or you could start posts in the gaming section of the forums (most forums have these) titled:

Looking for a casual free game?

Or something along these lines.

People get creative! The internet brought us marketing techniques so broad that it's mind blowing! We just need to use them. Here are some forums that you should start promoting on (besides the ones you're already using)

gamspot/FAQs forums. This is one of the largest PC gamer forums that I know of.

The Penny Arcade forums. Again, a huge online PC gamer base.

The explosm comic forums. More specifically the video game section of these forums. A good place to promote.

The IGN forums Great place for gamers to promote to gamers.

The gametrailers forums Again another gamer forum.

There are a lot more forums out there but these are a good start.

I know a lot of you might say "this will take a lot of time!!11!!1!" All I have to say is: You guys haven't wasted time before? At least this time you would be helping people. So think about it.

-Dude out.

[CreatureofHell]

you made the links in the examples temulous.net...

[dude11235]

Sigh. Missing my concept entirely...

[Overdose]

You misspelled "Tremulous" and then he misspelled "made" when correcting you, how funny.
Also I lol'd at kill the batman.

I understand your idea but Tremulous has been posted all over the internet, including sites like Digg and Slashdot - both of which are extremely popular. I guess what you're suggesting couldn't hurt but I don't think it'll do as much as you think. I for one try to bring it up whenever the subject of video games comes around, but that's just me.

[dude11235]

I do understand what you're saying. All I'm trying to do is give a solution to the problem. It wouldn't hurt to have tremulous in more places on the internet and it's not that hard to do so. That's all.

[Kitashi]

I agree that advertising Tremulous will help, but I think it requires more involvement than just telling random people that it exists.  For the sake of brevity, I won't go in detail, but instead of advertising to random people, I think each person needs to network socially.  Tremulous requires more work from new players than most other games require, so most new players need help starting.  Although a manual, forums, and random websites are available, most users would sooner consult a friend or give up than consult any of the other resources.  Because of this, I think anyone who wants to increase the Tremulous population should focus on making more friends and advertising to friends.

[Evoc]

Tremulous is in no way dying. It is an amazing game that will not die for a long time. I see new players on every day.

[mooseberry]

Tremulous is in no way dying. It is an amazing game that will not die for a long time. I see new players on every day.

That's just 10 people under lots of different names.

[dude11235]

LoL.

[Kitashi]

Tremulous is in no way dying. It is an amazing game that will not die for a long time. I see new players on every day.

That's just 10 people under lots of different names.

No lie.  I played on my clan's server every day for two weeks, and every day I played with differently named people.  Shortly I realized that they were the same people using different names, and when I pointed out they were someone else they yelled at me for "blowing their cover" as if they were undercover cops.

[Bissig]

F B I! Please don't force us to break your neck! (It's a helllotta paper work)

[StevenM]

You wanna promote this game, release a fucking update already. The problem with this game is that the dev's actually have lives.

[jal]

All the promotion Tremulous needs is 1.2 and make sure it's easy to join a game with 1.2.

That, and remove the kickban of unnamed players from servers. If players are kicked they won't stay.

[condor]

usually social networks are a place to put a website link. So you could put it in there to spark the interest of people visiting your page.

[Bissig]

All the promotion Tremulous needs is 1.2 and make sure it's easy to join a game with 1.2.

That, and remove the kickban of unnamed players from servers. If players are kicked they won't stay.

Wait what?

[Plague Bringer]

remove the kickban of unnamed players from servers. If players are kicked they won't stay.

Wait, what?

UrbanTerror has a wonderful system for having players customize an account before playing.

[Colynn']

Hi,
I am going to make a blog related with Tremulous on the website of the famous CS french team [aAa].
I hope it will bring us players, and not only retarded kevins who are common on CSS.

[Winnie the Pooh]

Good luck. 

[Demolution]

...retarded kevins...

?

[frazzler]

I was thinking about the same thing, just before this poame out. I am in the process of making a promotional video right now. It's nothing special, my first vid ever, But I will post it on the forums here & in my own post when its done.

[Dante]

Why does Tremulous need to be promoted?  There is no money to be made from it, and there are still plenty of servers that get activity in both hemispheres.

[Winnie the Pooh]

Many people (including me) don't think tremulous is getting enough players. Though there are already many people playing, and more every day, most of these people are smart enough to be looking for these good games. Tremulous isn't exactly "popular" so most people looking for a good game to play end up paying for a game instead of finding tremulous or other open-source games. The point of this thread is to find ways to promote in our everyday and internet lives.

[Bissig]

Why does Tremulous need to be promoted?  There is no money to be made from it, and there are still plenty of servers that get activity in both hemispheres.

Sort list by amount of players and you'll see why.

[Colynn']

...retarded kevins...

?

Kevin is a french word (derivated of the english name), that means "7 years old kiddie who doesn't know how to write and makking stupid things".
We name them kevin, because a lot of those kiddies are called kevin. lold.

[floww]

good idea: create a tremulous clan which plays in games like in uRt create a subforum in this forum for the clan and advertise other gamers

i would be the first member 

[Colynn']

good idea: create a tremulous clan which plays in games like in uRt create a subforum in this forum for the clan and advertise other gamers

i would be the first member 

There is somthing wrong in your sentence. :<

[Kitashi]

Kevin is a french word (derivated of the english name), that means "7 years old kiddie who doesn't know how to write and makking stupid things".
We name them kevin, because a lot of those kiddies are called kevin. lold.

Sounds more like it's an inside joke than a french term.

[Asvarox]

I remember there was a Kevin in Harry Potter (4th book), he liked to poke snails with his dad's wand lol.

[Colynn']

Kevin is a french word (derivated of the english name), that means "7 years old kiddie who doesn't know how to write and makking stupid things".
We name them kevin, because a lot of those kiddies are called kevin. lold.

Sounds more like it's an inside joke than a french term.

http://desencyclopedie.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin (in french)
Seriously, it exists.
In France, we've got something horrible called "SMS writing style on forums" (perhaps it exists in others countries, I don't know). It is something like writing like that in english: "hai i r kevin lolz kan i haz cheez  ???"
People who often use that without particular reasons (on forums, you have the time to write and check your grammar) are noticed like kevins.
Exemple of kevin: The wonderfull and admirable blog of a typical kevin (in French, but it's very enjoyable).

(Sorry for english, and end of off-topic)

[Kaine]

Amine will not be pleased.

... Frenchie bastards.