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- Jos Elkink
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If you were to advertise Cantr, where would you do it? Do you think there are particular social media, or websites, or blogs, or magazines, that are often used by Cantr players or the kind of people who would be interested in Cantr?
Cantr, being only text-based and pure roleplay, is quite a niche game, so we need to find the right niche to advertise.
In the past, a discussion forum on Swedish soccer was one of the best hits, but that probably cannot be repeated
Cantr, being only text-based and pure roleplay, is quite a niche game, so we need to find the right niche to advertise.
In the past, a discussion forum on Swedish soccer was one of the best hits, but that probably cannot be repeated
- Rmak
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What about forums for rpg writers and such. People who like stories , character development etc etc. The ad could Contain a small snippet of an event log of something Iinteresting or unique like from klojt university while elyos was there. Not a log of mundane things but some exciting event. Have a competition here for the best event / log
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What about making it possible to find Cantr by googling? I honestly have no idea what one should type in Polish to find Cantr. I bet we would have more players if it was possible to find it.
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Alutka wrote:What about making it possible to find Cantr by googling?
Making Cantr appear in Google search comes by advertising it on other websites. It's no simple task (a lot of money goes into putting sites on the top of Google's lists). Mentioning Cantr with the url cantr.net on other sites helps with this.
Rmak wrote:What about forums for rpg writers and such.
I think reddit is a good example of this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cantr
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/
Reddit does have a large user base, and comments there have brought players before.
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- Rmak
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Reddit also has a historic underside to it should a popular player there be banned\chastised (Like somethingawful really). Its why I thought simply targeting "story" based forums might be better than forums with a large gaming section.
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MUDs are the closest thing to Cantr, IMO, but have a relatively small player base and may be biased against browser based games. Still, you could probably pick up a few there - and there are mud forums and listings out there. You wouldn't need paid ads there, or on rpg forums, specific game forums, etc. - just a few posts by players to draw interest through shared stories. If you're looking at paid ads... Dunno, Facebook might be a thought? I dunno how useful their metrics are.
There's always adding Cantr as a site of interest in StumbleUpon and associated apps, too.
There's always adding Cantr as a site of interest in StumbleUpon and associated apps, too.
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I've had some luck on game sites where the goal isn't RP but there's a detailed lore/background to the setting. It tends to invite people who enjoy text-based roleplay as an aside to the game but are happy to have the world around them pre-established. There's a lot of petsites somewhere on that scale, and not all of them populated by the kinds of players you'd expect to be disruptive.
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Wolfsong wrote:MUDs are the closest thing to Cantr, IMO
True, and it's where we started advertising Cantr. Are there any major site we're not advertised on but should be?
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Jos Elkink wrote:Wolfsong wrote:MUDs are the closest thing to Cantr, IMO
True, and it's where we started advertising Cantr. Are there any major site we're not advertised on but should be?
Not sure where you were advertising to start, and not sure what's current since I haven't scratched that particular itch for a few years, but there used to be topmudsites.com (I think) and themudconnector - not sure on URL. Then you've got the actual games themselves.
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Official listings/profiles on other sites (though not very updated):
Sites that have attracted new players:
http://www.ufbs.co.uk/jason/roleplay/rpglinks.html#Suggest
http://www.gamesweb.nl/
http://rpg.pagina.nl
http://www.ineedhits.com/add-it/pro/
http://www.masrawy.com
http://www.dmoz.org
http://dmoz.org
http://www.online-games.net
http://www.bbsgames.net/textgames.htm
http://community.bbgamezone.com/index.php
http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/
http://www.forosperu.net/showthread.php?t=42276
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_ ... nent_Death
http://foros.emagister.com/mensaje-cant ... 834271.htm
http://www.mmorpg100.com
http://www.topgamesites.net
http://cantr-rpg.hi5.com
http://en.lernu.net/komunikado/forumo/temo.php?t=79
http://www.omgspider.com
http://www.pbbghub.net/
http://www.rpggateway.com/cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi?ID=6811
http://www.top-pbbg.com
http://www.kostenlose-browsergames.de
http://www.topmmorpgsites.com
http://www.browsergameindex.de
http://www.kostenlose-onlinegames.net
http://www.websbiggest.org
http://www.browsergamelist.com
http://www.directoryofgames.com/games/136/Cantr-II
http://www.mmorpgprivateserver.com
http://www.rpgbrowser.com
http://www.topgamedb.com
http://games.npph.net/rpg.html
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/de ... 21458.html
http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/free ... nline.html
http://www.rpg.sg/
http://www.wcograc.pl/cantr-ii
http://top50.onrpg.com
http://www.mmorpgtopgames.com/userpanel.html
http://www.pbbg-portal.com
http://www.online-rollenspiel.com
http://www.onrpg.com
http://www.pbbgwarp.com
http://www.browsergamelist.net/vote?id=18
http://twitter.com/cantrii
Sites that have attracted new players:
English:
http://www.allegro.cc
http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=430
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/fo ... N=60&TPN=2
http://www.learnlangs.com/RWP/Korean/links.htm
http://www.similarsitesearch.com/altern ... an-age.com
http://www.similarsitesearch.com/altern ... egendi.com
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game ... ATITD.html
http://games.npph.net/rpg.html
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthr ... online-rpg
http://www.parleremo.org/
http://aveneca.com/cbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=152087
http://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearnin ... _have_you/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/324 ... owser-rpg/
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme ... e_webgame/
http://www.worldpbbgs.com/listing.php?id=900
http://www.siteslike.com/
http://www.faerytaleonline.com/
http://askville.amazon.com/forums-text- ... Id=6713035
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/de ... 21458.html
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=27168.0
http://www.syrnia.com/theGame/maininclu ... 582&cat=41
http://movoda.net/index.html
http://crims.biz/index.php?sub=link
http://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comm ... d_age_and/
http://www.mmobomb.com/forum/free-mmo-g ... cial-game/
http://vworld.fas.org/wiki/Cantr_II
Spanish:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/juegos/523 ... 00_25.html
http://www.emudesc.com/threads/cantr-ii ... al.356724/
http://fearnight-zrp.foroac.org/t163-cantr-ii-pbbrpg
http://www.elforro.com/juegos-internet/ ... -vida.html
http://bandaancha.eu/foros/cantr-ii-mej ... do-1688416
http://www.frikis.com/Rol_y_Estrategia/On_line/
http://www.emudesc.net/foros/juegos-onl ... ocial.html
http://bandaancha.eu/tema/1688416/cantr ... l-gratuito
http://www.psicofxp.com/forums/juegos-d ... asado.html
http://www.3djuegos.com/foros/tema/9752 ... -gratuito/
http://foros.3dgames.com.ar/massive-mul ... st14822844
http://foros.3dgames.com.ar/massive-mul ... st14822823
http://www.zonammorpg.com/foros/index.p ... cial.1384/
http://www.vagos.es/showthread.php?t=16 ... 1058407280
http://www.animextremist.com/foros/inde ... opic=32147
http://www.mmorpghispano.net/forum/thre ... ulac/#6562
http://www.frikis.com/Rol_y_Estrategia/On_line/
http://cantr.imaginacja.org/eng/index.php
Portuguese:
http://pt.kioskea.net/faq/16165-jogos-g ... -cotidiana (this one has attracted many players)
http://katsuro.gamingblog.com.br/
http://br.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 144AALJyun
http://nossogrupo.com.pt/forum/index.php?topic=376.0
http://www.gamesbrasil.com.br/forum/sho ... owser-Game
http://www.liberafolio.org/Members/oshojabbe/Cantr
http://www.adrenaline.com.br/forum/pc/1 ... vador.html
https://www.facebook.com/Cantruguês-931204853602021/
German:
http://www.fantasy-rollenspiel.com/brow ... t2314.html
http://www.digital-inn.de/threads/cantr ... iel.38850/
http://www.gameswelt.ch/forum/wbb/index ... tID=711086
Polish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPxnd5p ... ture=feedu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EwM5vmilhk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBCY7hctvPc
http://mmorpg.org.pl/gra/cantr-ii/134
http://online.sokker.org/forum_topic/ID ... 43942/pg/1
This user's signature: http://havenandhearth.eu/forum/profile. ... c0a45ac599
http://cantr-mmorpg.pl/jak-zaczac/
http://forum.gammo.pl/showthread.php/17 ... g-Cantr-II
http://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic1148801.html
http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php? ... -wszystko/
http://forum.kerbale.pl/inne-gry/cantr- ... polecenia/
http://www.wcograc.pl/cantr-ii
http://blackcrusade.pl/
http://arhn.eu/forum/Temat-gry-sandbox
http://forum.ks-ekspert.pl/topic/87040- ... ia-online/
http://zapytaj.onet.pl/Category/029,002 ... zycia.html
http://forum.pclab.pl/topic/168930-Cant ... wilizacji/
http://www.centrumxp.pl/forum/yaf_posts ... nstwa.aspx
http://www.allthingspolish.net/index.ph ... 889.0.html
http://zapytaj.onet.pl/Category/029,002 ... zycia.html
http://top30.nboo.eu/
http://forum.rubyonrails.pl/t/tekstowa- ... -klon/6104
http://www.wykop.pl/
Esperanto:
http://fy.lernu.net/komunikado/forumo/temo.php?t=2811
http://esperanto.ulver.com/esplink.html
http://aktuale.info/en/esperanto/kulturo/ludoj
http://en.lernu.net/komunikado/forumo/temo.php?t=9996
Finnish:
http://nastacraft.net/forum/index.php?topic=202.0
Lithuanian:
http://banga.balsas.lt/lt/2forum.showPo ... 1029093324)
Dutch:
http://rpgmaker-vx-ace.de/index.php?page=Chat
https://spiritualdata.org
http://doryiskom.myminicity.com/
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- Wolfsong
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A lot of those sites are vote-based for their ranking system, right? Maybe a link on the character page pointing to vote pages, with a reminder for those who haven't done so yet that day (and disappears once they have) might be handy?
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Wolfsong wrote:Maybe a link on the character page pointing to vote pages, with a reminder for those who haven't done so yet that day (and disappears once they have) might be handy?
There already is a list on the player page (does this need to be more noticeable?), though I don't doubt there are more sites that could be added to the list. As for a reminder..perhaps. I'm not sure how long it would take to implement that.
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