AI war on reddit. Vote it up.

[sox3502us]

Just posted a link for AI WAR on reddit.  Hopefully it gets voted up and you get some publicity out of it.  If you are a member of reddit and enjoy AI war, go vote.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9dle8/fantastic_indie_space_rts_30k_units_deep_strategy/

[x4000]

Hey sox, thanks very much for the plug!  We've been on the front-page of reddit before, but only for the AI articles in the programming category, but never for the gaming category.  Very different audiences, I think.  I was wondering why I was seeing some traffic from reddit in my visit tracking log!

[sox3502us]

Its on the front page of the gaming reddit at the moment.  If it picks up a head of steam expect some serious traffic.


Hope it brings you some sales!

[x4000]

Wow, I see that.  Yeah, a fair bit of traffic already.  Thanks for spreading the word, that's so incredibly helpful to a game like this!

[Admiral]

I generally don't consider myself a moron (although BrainiaX has made me feel that way sometimes) but I can't figure out for the life of me:

1) How to vote for anything at the specified link

2) What the the purpose behind reddit is

Cheers!

[sox3502us]

Reddit is a user generated content site where people submit content in various categories and then vote on what they find interesting.  Things with alot of positive votes move to the front of the site, things with negative votes disappear.  Its similar to digg.com if you are familiar with that site.

Basically it is a snapshot of whats interesting on the internet at any given time to the reddit community(which is quite sizeable). To vote you just create an account (which takes about 5 seconds) and then just click the up arrow or down arrow. Up obviously being positive, down being negative.

beware, reddit surfing gets very addictive after awhile.  Try it out, I think you will like it.


also as a side note-- I just checked the link-- we are up to 89 votes and 58 comments.  Chris, have you seen any more traffic coming from reddit?

[x4000]

Oh yeah, we got several thousand unique visitors out of it in all -- maybe around 4,000 visitors or so.  We normally have around 1600 to 2000 unique visitors per day assuming there's nothing special going on, so that was quite a nice boost!  Thanks for posting that!

[Admiral]

To vote you just create an account
...
Try it out, I think you will like it.

Thank you for the explanation of reddit.

Personally: I don't create accounts or give out any personal information as a standard thing. This is one of the very rare sites I actually have an "account" on.

Cheers!

[Fiskbit]

What actually got you to register here, out of curiosity?

[Admiral]

Well, I actually found out about AI War through Chris's blog and posts on his thoughts on AI development. I'm a professional software architect who always wished he were a game developer, and so I read several game developer blogs from time to time.

I eventually downloaded the demo and after a few minutes figured I liked his blog enough to spend the $20 bucks on the game regardless of whether I actually liked it.

I liked it a lot, found and read the forum and decided to post a few suggestions. They got turned around almost immediately (not that this should surprise anyone here, but there were many fewer people slamming poor Chris with suggestions at the time).

Small, tight community, small dev. shop: I'm in. I guess I'm along for the ride now since both of those things seem to be changing - and that's not really a bad thing!

[Fiskbit]

How'd you find his blog?

This community strikes me as still pretty tight. I think the growth has done nothing but good for it, but perhaps that's just me. I'm hoping we can keep it this good as it continues to rise in popularity. I'm enjoying it, anyway; I hope that's still the case for you, too.

[Admiral]

I honestly can't remember now. I peruse a lot of geeky blogs. It might well have been /. (I know there was a note there: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/03/0512254 ) but it is not necessarily that. I have some close grade school friends who went into game development as a profession and it could have been through other blogs.

[x4000]

Given the timing of when you started coming around, I wouldn't be if it was from Slashdot either directly, or as an indirect second-order link afterwards.

Even cooler than being on slashdot?  Being on MSDN:  http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2009/07/28/9842146.aspx (Also, being mentioned on HowStuffWorks.com was pretty cool, too.)

Microsoft actually did a case study on my work at Starta back in 2003 or so, but I can't find it anymore -- it's so old they seem to have taken it down.

[Fiskbit]

Microsoft actually did a case study on my work at Starta back in 2003 or so, but I can't find it anymore -- it's so old they seem to have taken it down.

I remember that. Has it really been 6 years? Wow.


Edit: No, 5 years. Has it really been 5 years? ..that just doesn't seem as impressive to me as 6, for some reason.

[x4000]

Link doesn't work, but yeah, it's been quite some time.