How to Broadcast to the WORLD

PTFace wrote:

I also reccomend contacting deliciouscinnamon

Who is this guy?

Tomorrow i go back to school so ill be able to talk to one of the coders.

Also, if youre going to let a youtuber announce Thrive. Pay attention to their audience. We wouldn't want trolls, idiots, etc kinds of people coming here.

Good point.

I don't think that youtubers will really notice this game, I mean, How can they present a game that even not in alpha...

ido66667 wrote:

I don't think that youtubers will really notice this game, I mean, How can they present a game that even not in alpha...

They could probably talk about how excited they are... But unless they're really good at making people excited about stuff (in a Steve Jobs sort of way), it might put people off.
We should wait until we have something that would make a good demo before we do this sort of thing.

Id recommend before we make Thrive publicly known, we have a demo of the game like a stage or a concept video. Which would show the what the game would look and be like. Such as a microbe growing quickly into an organism, then that organism grows more and multiplies and makes a civilization and so on. If it is good enough, it would surely grab the public's attention. (being in a marketing class does help! )

Also, I told one of the coders about Thrive and he said he'd be glad to.

Very good point, but I think any time we take making a teaser video is time not spent making the Microbe Stage, so I think just an alpha of the Microbe Stage for fans to play would be much better.

Wonderful! I'll make sure to tell Seregon once this guy joins and hopefully he has the commitment to stay as a regular programmer. Great job GMan!

I hate to sound demanding, but what about the other 1-2 people? Any word yet?

NickTheNick wrote:

Very good point, but I think any time we take making a teaser video is time not spent making the Microbe Stage, so I think just an alpha of the Microbe Stage for fans to play would be much better.

Wonderful! I'll make sure to tell Seregon once this guy joins and hopefully he has the commitment to stay as a regular programmer. Great job GMan!

I hate to sound demanding, but what about the other 1-2 people? Any word yet?

Nick, Please note that programing is not magic... Canifex and Sergen ETA is 2 - 4 years to alpha and 5 - 7 years to first stable/
But, Still happy there is a new programer.

It's not magic?! Don't tell me Santa isn't real either!

Seriously, I know that. However ETA 2-4 years is WAY longer than I think it would take to finish Microbe Stage Alpha. Btw, there are more programmers than Carnifex and Seregon (Note that that is the way to spell his name). We should be finished an alpha by tops a year from now...

NickTheNick wrote:

It's not magic?! Don't tell me Santa isn't real either!

Seriously, I know that. However ETA 2-4 years is WAY longer than I think it would take to finish Microbe Stage Alpha. Btw, there are more programmers than Carnifex and Seregon (Not that that is the way to spell his name). We should be finished an alpha by tops a year from now...

Well, Maybe, But It will be VERY BUGGY.
Not like the minecraft Alpha... Our alpha would probly will be Bearly playeable... So showing people a bunch of prototypes is not going to help, We need to make a conspect vido, Again.

Not at all. By the end of one year we should have a solid Microbe Stage. That is if we go at the rate we are currently at. I prefer having decent gameplay to show other people than concept videos. We really need to concentrate what talents our team has on the game's development.

NickTheNick wrote:

Not at all. By the end of one year we should have a solid Microbe Stage. That is if we go at the rate we are currently at. I prefer having decent gameplay to show other people than concept videos. We really need to concentrate what talents our team has on the game's development.

I would like to point out that programing IS VERY HARD.
And people don't work around the clock to finish the game...

It's not particularly nice to ask for my opinion (you asked me when I thought the game would be prototyped and/or finished) and claim it as fact on the forums.
Don't quote me on everything I say, I just joined the project and I am not a developer (yet) so I can only state my opinion on things. As for an ETA, does it really matter?
Either way, you can't expect such an elaborate game to be finished within a few years. We're writing the engine, the game's editors and the game itself which is a huge undertaking.
Even developing a simple engine can take several years to complete and then you still have to connect everything to the game's components and make it all run smoothly.

There's a lot more to it than most people think. That's all I'm saying.

Carnifex wrote:

It's not particularly nice to ask for my opinion (you asked me when I thought the game would be prototyped and/or finished) and claim it as fact on the forums.
Don't quote me on everything I say, I just joined the project and I am not a developer (yet) so I can only state my opinion on things. As for an ETA, does it really matter?
Either way, you can't expect such an elaborate game to be finished within a few years. We're writing the engine, the game's editors and the game itself which is a huge undertaking.
Even developing a simple engine can take several years to complete and then you still have to connect everything to the game's components and make it all run smoothly.

There's a lot more to it than most people think. That's all I'm saying.

I just qouted you cus... You are kind of a pro at developing... To make a point, Developing is hard, It is not some magic, The dev don't have a C++ Wand, That why Sico said, no ETA, so let's just don't give any ETA.

BTW, Alpha virsiones are very buggy, Most times they are bearly playable.
The minecraft Alpha acted like a beta.

BTW, Think about it... What is thrive.
It is...
Sins of the solar empire + spore + simcity + Tons of science concepts + Rise of nations = Thrive.
If there is ETA, It will make you cry blood, We want to implent tons of ideas that people worked on countless years in other games... And we don't use our own engine, Add the fact that the budget is Zero, Are we Aiming to high?

He'll inform me via facebook when he has made an account. I told a few others about Thrive and one of them creates music, another wrote said he could do HTML (i know nothing D: ) and others. All intrigued on the game ( you lost). I'll post here when they've joined the forum.

I also want to be able to assist more, since i dont feel as though im contributing enough or at all. :/

Don't worry you've contributed greatly!

You're doing a wonderful job getting all these people!

GmansWatching wrote:

He'll inform me via facebook when he has made an account. I told a few others about Thrive and one of them creates music, another wrote said he could do HTML (i know nothing D: ) and others. All intrigued on the game ( you lost). I'll post here when they've joined the forum.

I also want to be able to assist more, since i dont feel as though im contributing enough or at all. :/

Who lost, I don't see any game in here.
BTW, Thanks for the effort, But I am not sure if it will complete the game.
We can't only count on youtubers.

NickTheNick wrote:

Don't worry you've contributed greatly!

You're doing a wonderful job getting all these people!

But I want to do more than recruit people. It seems... purpose-less, its just me.


Also. @ido66667
http://losethegame.com/

GmansWatching wrote:

NickTheNick wrote:

Don't worry you've contributed greatly!

You're doing a wonderful job getting all these people!

But I want to do more than recruit people. It seems... purpose-less, its just me.


Also. @ido66667
http://losethegame.com/

Please note that people lose the game when they think about it, I did not thought about the game first, you did...
The game is a universal game, everybody play it, You can not win the game, If you lose it, you still play it, but you did lose it once...

Anywho, Your game is childlish, so... Please, be mature.

Anyways, my friend checked out our forums and is intrigued. He either has an account and is wandering about the forums or hasn't made one yet.

GmansWatching wrote:

Anyways, my friend checked out our forums and is intrigued. He either has an account and is wandering about the forums or hasn't made one yet.

Hope he will create one, But I did not see any new welcome threads Lately, Exept Silver Sterling.

He thought we would steal his IP lol. I convinced him otherwise. He'll be with us shortly

GmansWatching wrote:

He thought we would steal his IP lol. I convinced him otherwise. He'll be with us shortly

Good, new member, Also, What his IP will help us for?
Unless we want to dos him for no reason.