Shadow 61 Report post Posted July 6 Someone at PCGamer has noticed TDM and published it. He specifically mentions the new The Painters Wife mod. https://www.pcgamer.com/free-thief-like-game-the-dark-mod-updates-with-graphical-revamps/ Thought it was nice to see this. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2041 Report post Posted July 6 Thank you! PCGamer always seems to do us a big favor by covering our releases. I wonder if there is any way to help them in return? Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freyk 461 Report post Posted July 6 (edited) Please post this article in topic "tdm in the news". There are lots of things we can do for PCGamer. Like posting some comments, posting tips at the article. or what other game-creators do for PCGamer: creating a standalone version of our game, including a PCGamer version of one of the TDM missions (by adding some PCGamer banners to the mission). Edited July 6 by freyk 1 Quote Info: My portfolio and darkmod graphical installer Amnesty for Bikerdude! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OrbWeaver 577 Report post Posted July 6 Let's not go overboard. It's nice if the mod gets a mention in the gaming press, but that isn't a reason to bow down and kiss the feet of the media. That sort of thing is likely to alienate some of the potential playerbase (they will perceive it as "media whoring", "selling out" etc). Of course there's nothing wrong with engaging with their community in a friendly (and non-spammy way), helping people with installation issues or particular missions. But I wouldn't vote for blatant marketing-related things like putting commercial banners in the game. 3 Quote DarkRadiant homepage ⋄ DarkRadiant user guide ⋄ OrbWeaver's Dark Ambients ⋄ Blender export scripts Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freyk 461 Report post Posted July 6 (edited) That's True. But as banners for magazine in the game, like they did in hl-mod they hunger. (we can easily do this) For example, see this video at at 00:12, some pcgamemagazines at 02:22, pcgame title on wagon etc. Edited July 6 by freyk 1 Quote Info: My portfolio and darkmod graphical installer Amnesty for Bikerdude! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peter_spy 1440 Report post Posted July 6 Both look and feel very heavy-handed IMO. And I didn't find any logo, sticker, etc. that would look natural in TDM world, this would need to be more of a creative hint or playful reference. In any case, you can always give a shout out to them in the mission readme or credits. 1 Quote Builder Compound Asset Pack – models and textures for TDM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lowenz 582 Report post Posted July 6 Some readable in an InventorsGuild-focused FM Quote Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freyk 461 Report post Posted July 6 Yes, or on a Bookback, bookcover, bannercloth, etc. Ask a texture creator and a mapper. 1 Quote Info: My portfolio and darkmod graphical installer Amnesty for Bikerdude! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 291 Report post Posted July 6 (edited) 5 hours ago, OrbWeaver said: Let's not go overboard. It's nice if the mod gets a mention in the gaming press, but that isn't a reason to bow down and kiss the feet of the media. That sort of thing is likely to alienate some of the potential playerbase (they will perceive it as "media whoring", "selling out" etc). Of course there's nothing wrong with engaging with their community in a friendly (and non-spammy way), helping people with installation issues or particular missions. But I wouldn't vote for blatant marketing-related things like putting commercial banners in the game. A mention in the credits or some subtle references in the FM would be sufficient. It's a common courtesy. Maybe like a Hirsch index in academia, where individuals promote each other in citations. Edited July 6 by Anderson Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PranQster 438 Report post Posted July 6 13 hours ago, freyk said: Please post this article in topic "tdm in the news". How about a main forum topic for "TDM in the news", where a pinned thread for PCGamer could exist alongside other threads for media coverage? 1 Quote System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurshok 59 Report post Posted July 8 They're the ones who also gave out free copies of the "They Hunger" Trilogy, a masterful mod series for Half Life 1 about a zombie outbreak in a rural American town. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
