| hotrodx |
Posted - May 07 2005 : 05:13:24 AM
Hi Eric,
VBGamer has been my "home" for quite some time. I used to hang out at xtreme vbtalk before, but apparently, the game forums there has become much more of a collection of "how do I do..." this and that elementary stuff. It's pretty good for beginning VB game programmers, but almost pretty useless (or boring) to those who've acquired enough proficiency with VB/DX. It doesn't feel like a forum anymore. If you talk something off topic, they'd put it in a more general forum, effectively blocking it from people usually only hanging out in the gaming forums. If you try to link a game (without source code) or link a site like vbgamer, they'd remove it for, probably for "spamming" reasons.
Anyway, I've bumped in VBRun, MSDN's VB6 Resource Center. I saw a little box in the lower right of their page that has a very small list of VB links. Is it possible for you to get a link for VBGamer? Maybe it's a way to promote the site and increase membership in the forums.
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| Eric Coleman |
Posted - May 09 2005 : 10:17:23 PM
Sorry for the late response, I've been out of town for the past week.
I totally agree with you about the game forums on the large forum-only websites. I apparently "spammed" the forum by asking people about the games they're working on. I never really found it very helpfull, especially after it was sold to some large marketing company.
As for a link on that particular website, I emailed someone about it, so my fingers are crossed. Now that I think about it, that list might be a list of advertisers.
This website is pretty specific, it's not general vb but game programing with vb, and because of that 99.999% of the people that are intrested in this topic are hobbyists. There really isn't a comerical side game programming with VB. I'd like for there to be one, but you know the saying, wish in one hand.... And with no comercial aspects, their really isn't any money in game programming with VB, although MS did add support for vb after 4 versions of directX (I'm including winG) without it. I forgot what I was trying to say.
As for promoting VB, the best thing to do is contribute in any way you can. Having more content makes this a more usefull resource, and if it's more usefull then more people will use it.
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| 2dcoder |
Posted - May 07 2005 : 09:00:29 AM
This is a tough one. VBGamer doesn't really seem to appeal to the noobs, but yet it doesn't have the membership to attract the more experienced coders either. Everytime I visit this site it seems to be the same few users posting. I think the site is suffering from an indentity crisis. It's VERY hard to be all things to all coders. The busier sites seem to cater to either the noobs or the experienced, the middle is hard to keep. ;)
From Google, typing in the following search terms, gets VBGamer.com the following positions:
"Visual Basic Forum" - >50 :(
"VB Game Forum" - 4 <<<<<< :)
"Visual Basic Game Forum" - 12 <<<<<<
So depending which is the more popular searched phrases, you may need to adjust your meta tags. I would think the first phrase would be the one to get indexed under.
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