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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

...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?

I use mostly firefox, but there is times when lynx is handy

I have also tried konqueror and opera, but somehow I never really liked them. Perhaps I just tried them for too short period to get used to them.

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

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

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.

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:

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