Saturday, September 15, 2007
Where Are We Going, And Why Are We In This Handbasket?
I'm looking into some ways of overhauling the main Rampant Games website. One thing I really need is an easier way to add new games, and other new content. Right now it's a handful of scripts and straightforward HTML.
Anyway, I thought I'd go ahead and poll you to find out what you'd like, to make the site more useful to you, personally. Here on this blog, and at the main website.
What are you looking for?
What kind of blog posts do you like the best?
Why do you visit?
What brought you here in the first place?
What sort of things could I provide on the main website to bring you back?
How could I improve things?
What frustrates you about how things are set up?
If you could change one thing about www.rampantgames.com, what would it be?
If you could change one thing about Tales of the Rampant Coyote, what would it be?
I know these kinds of questions can cause something of a deer-in-the-headlights effect in me, so I apologize. Hopefully I can use your answers to these questions to create some more specific, multiple-choice-ish questions in the future. I'd just really like to steer the site in a direction that would be more useful to people.
Also, I have a little poll for forum members to try and find out more about what you all are into. Unfortunately, you have to sign up onto the forums in order to post anything, which I admit sucks. That's one thing I'm looking into with the upgrade... trying to integrate all these elements together.
Anyway the poll is here. Don't be afraid to post more information in a reply! I know a one-choice poll is weak, but it's a start.
Thanks everyone!
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I don't remember how I originally got here, but I stayed because it's the best place I know of to find out about new indie RPGs and keep tabs on the indie scene without wading through all the games I don't care about.
I would like to see your RSS feed fixed... currently every article is stamped with a date of Sun 12/31/2006 at 11:00 PM, which makes it very difficult to see the new posts or find posts based on chronological order once they have been marked as read in Outlook.
I enjoy reading the design/technical posts that discuss the behind the scenes aspects of game design, game mechanics, and what went right/ what went wrong.
I have pretty much no experience with the indie RPG scene, or even many of the old-school RPG's you discuss (first RPG I ever really to into would be System Shock 2, and that was an FPS hybrid) but I enjoy a lot of the writing about gaming in general. And as a wanna-be indie dev (I swear I'll start a game someday...) I find the behind-the-scenes development notes interesting as well.
I haven't had any problems with the RSS feed. Comes in just fine using Google Reader.
And Jay, if you're really looking to rework the site, I'm a web designer that would be very interested in lending any necessary hands. Check out my portfolio at www.sans-concept.com and throw me an email if you're interested!
I haven't had any problems with the RSS feed. Comes in just fine using Google Reader.
And Jay, if you're really looking to rework the site, I'm a web designer that would be very interested in lending any necessary hands. Check out my portfolio at www.sans-concept.com and throw me an email if you're interested!
I've been conspicuously trying to avoid commenting at all here, to avoid influencing the opinions. I just wanted to say thank you and keep the thoughts coming!
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