Ideas for promoting Tremulous.

[Demolution]

To get back on topic:

Let's just make and sell granger and battlesuit plushies.

[Kaine]

Or what about "egg" and "reactor" shaped sex toys?

PS: France blows.

[amz181]

O_o

[Kitashi]

To get back on topic:

Let's just make and sell granger and battlesuit plushies.

I can understand grange plushies (goes hand in hand with the egg shaped sex toy), but why would you make a battlesuit plushie when you could instead make a battlesuit-shaped battlesuit?  Seriously, we need more mechsuits in the world!

[Kaine]

I can understand grange plushies (goes hand in hand with the egg shaped sex toy), but why would you make a battlesuit plushie when you could instead make a battlesuit-shaped battlesuit?  Seriously, we need more mechsuits in the world!

+1'd, sigged, and you're my new deity that I pray to.

[Syntac]

I can understand grange plushies (goes hand in hand with the egg shaped sex toy), but why would you make a battlesuit plushie when you could instead make a battlesuit-shaped battlesuit?  Seriously, we need more mechsuits in the world!

I would so buy one of those.

[Kaine]

Granger plushie, egg sex-toy, or Battlesuit-shaped battlesuit?

[Syntac]

All of them, duh!

[Demolution]

And thus the Tremulous Product Catalog came into existence.... 

[Jedarus]

Granger plushie, egg sex-toy, or Battlesuit-shaped battlesuit?

I only like the granger plushie out of those three.

[Urcscumug]

Ah, but for which of the purposes? Plushie, sex, or mecha grandeur?

[Hendrich]

Ah, but for which of the purposes? Plushie, sex, or mecha grandeur?

All of the above.

[Demolution]

Ah, but for which of the purposes? Plushie, sex, or mecha grandeur?

All of the above.

Mechanized plushie sex grandeur.

[Kaine]

Mechanized plushie sex grandeur.

* Kaine crosses arms and waits patiently for some enterprising individual to GIMP the above and post it.

[Demolution]

Mechanized plushie sex grandeur.

* Kaine crosses arms and waits patiently for some enterprising individual to GIMP the above and post it.

 

[amz181]

Tremulous [IP: 89.108.75.88]
For play on server necessary distribution program Tremulous versions 1.1.0. In avoiding all the manner of trouble and malfunctions recommend to use solely original version of the play without some rusification. If you want to register its drooped beside us on server or get the possibility an  or use the reserve slots when server is filled, that you necessary to install the updated version of the play. Change the file: tremulous.exe or tremulous.x86 or tremulous.dmg depending on operating сиситемы Windows, Linux or Mac, do not forget to save the old file.

The Available modes of the play:

Port 27960 - Team Deathmatch (TDM)


The Necessary files:

Mounting file Tremulous for OS Windows Mounting file Tremulous for OS Linux Set of the cards to play
File of the start Tremulous for OS Linux - an improved version File start Tremulous for OS Windows - an improved version File start Tremulous for OS Macintosh - an improved version

I HATE YOU

[Demolution]

what...?

[cactusfrog]

hey i have an idea why not send out a stupid rick roll type link that jumps all over your screen and has lots of grangers hopping around and then when you click on the page it takes you to tremulous.net. At least then some people will know about it.

[kevlarman]

hey i have an idea why not send out a stupid rick roll type link that jumps all over your screen and has lots of grangers hopping around and then when you click on the page it takes you to tremulous.net. At least then some people will know about it.

i think you just answered your own question.

[Bissig]

hey i have an idea why not send out a stupid rick roll type link that jumps all over your screen and has lots of grangers hopping around and then when you click on the page it takes you to tremulous.net. At least then some people will know about it.

You do realize that you posted an answer to a spam bot?

[Winnie the Pooh]

You do realize that you missed the irony?

[Bissig]

Cactusfrog capable of irony?

[BobTheDemonicTwit]

ever heard of a game called "Linerider"? Well... They promoted it and now you have to BUY IT. We don't want that to happed to Tremulous, do we now? NO! Leave Tremulous the way it is, or just tell your friends about it.

[Kitashi]

It's impossible for Tremulous to cost anything, it's open-source.  As long as people are willing to put forth the effort to promote it by their own means and for free, it can be promoted, it just takes something a lot of people lack - initiative and commitment.

[Undeference]

It's impossible for Tremulous to cost anything, it's open-source.

Impossible!

Why couldn't this thread die a peaceful death?

[Demolution]

Why couldn't this thread die a peaceful death?

Why can't a mod lock it?

[bacon665]

if the license is changed to say... BSD the source can be 100% open but you can charge for binaries or you can leave portions of code open like the game engine.

to the dude who wants grangers on his desktop
just hex edit this proggy http://www.slinkycity.com/windows-desktop-sheep.html

[gimhael]

Well, I don't think that id will release it's code under a BSD license, so you can't change the tremulous license before the copyright runs out.

[curvedinfinity]

Another solution is to make Tremulous "syndicatable." That means loosely, make it so other people can and want to publish information about Tremulous.

For instance, what would someone want to share about themselves in Tremulous? Kills, win/loss record, favorite weapons, whatever. How do you prove you are good at Tremulous? Maybe an official tournament, bracketing, or skill ranking system could be implemented. What if tremulous could record and export movies to a common format (mpeg)? What if the tournaments/bracketing/ranking was "covered" by cameramen who publish the games on Youtube?

What is happening right now in Tremulous? What map is my favorite server playing, and who is playing on it? Are my friends currently playing?

What vectors can this information be shared? Forum signatures (dynamic images). Social networking apps. Mobile applications. Instant messaging. HTML iframes. Flash apps.

If you spend the time to make something that works for you, your resulting marketing affect is multiplied by the number of people who care about the game.

 

[David]

Another solution is to make Tremulous "syndicatable." That means loosely, make it so other people can and want to publish information about Tremulous.

For instance, what would someone want to share about themselves in Tremulous? Kills, win/loss record, favorite weapons, whatever. How do you prove you are good at Tremulous? Maybe an official tournament, bracketing, or skill ranking system could be implemented. What if tremulous could record and export movies to a common format (mpeg)? What if the tournaments/bracketing/ranking was "covered" by cameramen who publish the games on Youtube?

What is happening right now in Tremulous? What map is my favorite server playing, and who is playing on it? Are my friends currently playing?

What vectors can this information be shared? Forum signatures (dynamic images). Social networking apps. Mobile applications. Instant messaging. HTML iframes. Flash apps.

If you spend the time to make something that works for you, your resulting marketing affect is multiplied by the number of people who care about the game.

 

Any centrally stored DB will be flooded with bogus info.  Lot's of servers run localised versions of that though.
Support for ffmpeg has already been added, there should be a patch floating around somewhere.  Last I heard it wasn't going to be added to 1.2 due to dependency proliferation.
Go to master.tremulous.net to see what servers are doing.  I'll try and get around to adding a "show all" and "hide all" button so you can search for players easier.  Most servers also have their own status pages.
If you want a what game you are playing sig, there are plenty of services that will let you do it.  It totally wouldn't surprise me if there are servers with such images available.