New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

[ewan]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Though I don't know what you mean by 'hacked' you could dig out enough of your old website to get one similar to it from here: http://web.archive.org/web/201007251151 ... ots.co.uk/?

[robotwars]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Well i had all the pages saved, they knew what they were doing as they deleted all of our database data.

Could have made a copy of the old one but much prefer the new one anyway !

[PJ-27]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

As someone who works in the games industry I think you're very brave launching the game as a paid, packaged product.
Even the biggest firms are moving away from retail as we know it and download is becoming the standard medium. They're also adopting the freemium method and actually paying for games upfront is becoming a rare occurence.
Then again you have a unique platform from which to sell (your events).

[robotwars]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Well I think the difference is the game industry are looking at high volume products and a lot of competition.

This is a specific thing for a specific market. Marchandise from
An event, relatively cheap, and certainly relatively unique.

[PJ-27]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Yeh it's an interesting idea. Good luck.

[robotwars]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

what do you do PJ ?

[PJ-27]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

I'm a freelance audio designer for the games industry (music and sound design) I also do game design and advise on monetisation and marketing.

[robotwars]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Nice Job

[PJ-27]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Haha, cheers! Almost as fun as building and fighting robots for a living!

[robotwars]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Yep Im not complaining

[Silent Night]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

It's interesting to see another robot combat game after over a decade.

Is there any chance this will be distributed on Steam later on? A lot of indie developers seem to be turning to that to distribute their games.

[robotwars]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

What's steam ?

[PJ-27]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Steam is an online distribution portal for games that's developed by Valve (The guys that made, Half Life, Portal, Counterstrike etc..).
It's become the industry go to place to download games that run on a PC/Mac and not console.
It's popular because it has a vigorous vetting process for new games that means there's only good stuff basically. Well popular amongst consumers, but developers complain.
They also have a lot of decent indie games, and have made a name for themselves in indie circles as a great platform to sell your game.
They recently changed their vetting process to something called Greenlight though and it's getting some criticism.

http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/

Or as Gary would say Just Google it!

[kodster]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Yep. I play Team Fortress 2 through Steam. Though Steam is kind of unreliable at times. Recently it's been validating all the games I've tried to play before I can access them.

[Septic343]

Re: New Website, PC Game, and The Grudge Match Challenge.

Since I pre-ordered the game everyday has seemed so SLOW. It's going to be a long September for me :sad: .