Love AI War and/or Tidalis? We could really use your help...

[keith.lamothe]

If we don't get any drops, we don't get an ocean   Thank you for the support

[x4000]

Every bit helps! We're very grateful. Thank you!

[Thumpy]

well, i'm not sure if purchasing CON is considered even a drop in the ocean, but at least it's for a good cause. just bought it

i'll write a good review on german amazon soon, though.

[x4000]

Many thanks.

[Spikey00]

You lot should finish 4.0 and get attention of Gamespot to re-review it, somehow.

[x4000]

Gamespot never reviewed it to begin with.

[Gallant Dragon]

Why not?!
Maybe we could start a giant mail campaign to get the big reviewers' attention...

[x4000]

There's nowhere to mail them, and they don't tend to review indie games that don't win a contest or something.  IGN and Gamespot have completely ignored our existence, even though we're on Direct2Drive (a subsidiary of IGN).

[Gallant Dragon]

How to get their attention...
Any ideas?  I'm pretty sure once they get wind of this game they'd love it.

[x4000]

Well, Gamespot banned me from their forums a year ago for posting about the game, so I've no way of talking to them at all.  I'm not sure what to do to get them to know about stuff, they leave no vectors that I can see.

[Gallant Dragon]

Banned you? 
For what, spam?

[x4000]

Yup, that's what they said.

[Gallant Dragon]

So they banned you and didn't bother to look at what you were spamming about?
Mind you, if it was the sort of copy-and-pasted-looking post that's on a thread which is totally unrelated to your post, I'd understand.

[x4000]

So they banned you and didn't bother to look at what you were spamming about?

Yep.

Mind you, if it was the sort of copy-and-pasted-looking post that's on a thread which is totally unrelated to your post, I'd understand.

No, I wrote a response to an existing long thread where someone had asked about games like this, and I mentioned a number of other games and also AI War, in the interest of fairness.  I made two such posts.  However, this was in May of 2009, and I wasn't even on Impulse yet, let alone Steam or GamersGate or D2D, so I was a complete unknown and just trying to get anyone to look at the game.  I even explained what I was doing to the forum mod that banned me, apologized, and said I wouldn't post about my own stuff any more if they didn't want to hear about it, but he didn't care and left me perma-banned.

[Giegue]

heh, I know what you mean. I was on this forum that banned me cause they thought I hacked my way into the admin panel (I didn't actually get in), but it was just a bug in the forums. but they banned me anyway, even though I explained. it was also the community I planned to launch my first game... oh well. what can you do. (except rub in their faces how popular AI War is no thanks to them  )

(there should be an evil face emoticon here...)