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Maz · Wed 26/03/2008 09:55:35

Hi dee ho peeps!

Awww.. I do not really know how to start this :rolleyes: Well, perhaps it is best just to get straight into the point

I have been creating a freeware game site with a group of volunteers for ...mmm... is it two years now O_o. I know, most of you think: "Oh, right. Yet another freeware site :rolleyes:"

However, in my (admittably biased) opinion, we have better than average idea. I'll write some background info in next chapter, if it grows in lenght, just skip it

For long, long time I believed that term freeware game equals to "lousy pacman clone". Actually, it was only when I switched to linux when I noticed that there's excellent freeware games around. To be more precise, that was when I first downloaded "The battle for Wesnoth", which is really amazing project, both in size and quality. Since then I have been constantly surprized by the quality of MANY freeware games. At some phase I start wondering why did I have such a wrong image about freeware? And then I noticed that I had had bad luck while DLing freeware. I had managed to mainly DL those pcaman clones

Back then I decided that I want to spread the word about quality freeware games. Before that I had been active member in one of the biggest abandonware sites, but a time come when I decided to leave that site. (There were heavy reasons, but those I will not talk about). After a few months, I found out that a handfull of people from that site had started their own project, a freeware site project. However they lacked a coder, since none of them had coded a thing. I cannot say I master web publishing, but at least I had some experience about that, and a bit more about programming in general. (I write C code for WCDMA base station platform for my work). So I decided to jump in that project.

So now I have been co-admin and coding team leader on http://www.curlysworldoffreeware.com/ since then.
(Coding team has mostly consisted of 1 people, but there has been times when there has been more of us

And now there's 2 of us

)

How are we aiming to achieve the goal of telling about quality games then? Well, we offer a few things:
1. Freeware game downloads.
2. Forums with and for discussion.
3. Some interviews of Freeware developers.
4. Few reviews
5. we plan setting up a freeware news section.
6. 'developer help project' (which aims to form a bridge between developers needing help with their games, and skilled people interested in participating freeware projects - this is more or less in startup phase though)

Now to the quality point. Anyone can suggest a game to be hosted on our site. It happens simply by registering to our forums, and writing a few detail about a game. (Required details can be seen here - if any of you are interested). But each game must be played and rated by a team of CWF members (called Game Hunters squad). If the lisence of the game allows us to host it, and if the average rating is high enough, game will get on our site. If not, then the topic opened on our forums (where game was suggested) will stay with the information about the game, and keeps spreading the word. It is as simple as that, a win-win situation

We aim to offer games for windows, linux and mac platforms. However we lack of members who can play and rate mac/linux games (or actually even submit for validation). So I thought I'll ask here if anybody is interested joining in and seeing what we are alike?

And finally, we aim to be a 'community driven' site. Meaning that we do not force anybody to do a thing, we wish that people will help out because they like to 'work' with us, and have fun chatting with us. At the moment the community is not large. But athmosphere is warm, and we do welcome everyone.

Oh, and final note. I did read your rules, I am a bit unsure whether this kind of a post is Ok, and I know that according to the rules I should have not posted this then... But if I didn't, then I would have never known if it is Ok to post this

Radiant · Wed 26/03/2008 10:13:37

Here you go. Feel free to review and/or host any of these.

Fee · Wed 26/03/2008 10:27:33

Ill join why not.

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I have some reviews i did for planetfreewarez.com around somewhere.

They have since closed down, so you can use them if i can dig em up.

And if u want, join my banner exchange too. http://www.fnix.ws/

Ghost · Wed 26/03/2008 10:37:46

It would be a pleasure!
http://www.freewebs.com/daemons-in-the-attic/onceuponacrime.htm

Ghost · Wed 26/03/2008 10:39:16

*'net screwed up*

Maz · Wed 26/03/2008 12:39:41

Quote from: Fee on Wed 26/03/2008 10:27:33
Ill join why not.

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I have some reviews i did for planetfreewarez.com around somewhere.

They have since closed down, so you can use them if i can dig em up.

And if you want, join my banner exchange too. http://www.fnix.ws/

I would love to get some new reviews, but unfortunately we can only add reviews for games we host on our site. (To the mainsite that is). But naturally reviews of any freeware games can be posted on the forums!

And what comes to the error msg, you did happend to come by at bad moment

I was just doing an update to the site, and accidentally made a bug.. That error was present for 1 minute perhaps :rolleyes:

Akatosh · Wed 26/03/2008 12:41:27

I don't have a website, but feel free to add anything on this page. Minus the ...Krisis games perhaps, they suck.

Maz · Wed 26/03/2008 12:49:42

What comes to 'once upon a crime', that was already suggested by our belowed member eMTe. That's what he wrote about it:
http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/viewtopic.php592

It seems that it has not yet been validated though.

Maz · Wed 26/03/2008 12:54:36

And finally, thousand thanks for the suggestions, and for permission to host the games, but I must request you to write up the suggestions to our site. I would love to go through all of your games myself, but I simply lack of time

I barely have onlinetime at all, my kids, work and studies take care of that

But as I told, we have group of dedicated members (and as I told, we could use some enforcements ) going through all suggestions and playing and validating them. So if you just write a few details on our forums, they will go through the games

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Wed 26/03/2008 18:38:51

You are more than free to host any of the games here so that more people can play them:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=633

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=646

Maz · Wed 26/03/2008 20:21:26

I asked if some of our game hunters could check the submissions done in this thread this far. But I sensed they were somewhat reluctant to browse submissions all over the internet (and I must say I understand it)... So please, write your submissions on our forums, othervice I cannot guarantee that your submission will be spotted

Here's submission instructions:

http://www.curlysworldoffreeware.com/viewtopic.php?p=24101#24101

vertigoaddict · Thu 27/03/2008 08:01:00

...this thing sound VERY similar to what I'm trying to do...

Well, similar, but different nonetheless; I'll submit some of my future games there (it's always good to widen the audience, right?)

Maz · Thu 27/03/2008 12:11:39

Quote from: vertigoaddict on Thu 27/03/2008 08:01:00
...this thing sound VERY similar to what I'm trying to do...

Well, similar, but different nonetheless; I'll submit some of my future games there (it's always good to widen the audience, right?)

I believe it is better with broader audience, I really know it is nice feeling when a game you have created is played by others

mm.. VERY similar? I would like to hear what are you doing then?

Dualnames · Thu 27/03/2008 14:48:09

You can host any of my games(excluding shoot my valentine and the mi:COD). just right click on my profile. I'm not asking for fame or anything but it's always fun reading a review..

FSi++ · Thu 27/03/2008 17:57:44

Quote from: Dualnames on Thu 27/03/2008 14:48:09
You can host any of my games(excluding shoot my valentine and the mi:COD). just right click on my profile. I'm not asking for fame or anything but it's always fun reading a review..

Obviously someone didn't bother to read the thread

Dualnames · Fri 28/03/2008 10:57:30

I bothered but i just wanted to say what i said and i said it. so i no longer want to say it since the need to say what i wanted to say disappeared right at the moment i said it.

Maz · Wed 02/04/2008 11:50:01

I just wanted to tell that our host had problems with their database servers last weekend, so if someone attempted to visit us, it is likely the site was down. However we haven't vanished to anywhere

Dualnames · Thu 03/04/2008 14:50:25

Maz, if you want me to give you the HHGTG version to host in your site i'd be glad to help you out with your task and all. PM me if you;re interested.

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