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HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THIS COMPETITION. I have read ALL the entries!
A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.
It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).
I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.
Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).
Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.
Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".
Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.
CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).
The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".
THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.
Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.
All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)
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Below are the original rules written by Kendozod
New Site Features.
Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:
This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?
The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.
They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001
So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!
A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.
It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).
I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.
Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).
Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.
Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".
Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.
CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).
The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".
THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.
Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.
All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)
************
Below are the original rules written by Kendozod
New Site Features.
Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:
This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?
The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.
They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001
So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!
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Hi everybody,
Very impressed with the suggestions that have been posted!
Did you know there is a NEW competition in the Chat area of FOG! Yes can you believe it? We are running another great competition that offers more prizes!
It is called:
EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY ATTRACT PEOPLE TO SHOPS COMPETITION
Check it out now. It could make you a winner!
Very impressed with the suggestions that have been posted!
Did you know there is a NEW competition in the Chat area of FOG! Yes can you believe it? We are running another great competition that offers more prizes!
It is called:
EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY ATTRACT PEOPLE TO SHOPS COMPETITION
Check it out now. It could make you a winner!
Oh, everything has been suggested!
arrrggghh
arrrggghh
Interactive games would be a good idea.
Music on the pages.
Music on the pages.
The_Vottanator wrote:
> Ok I'm not sure if I've already suggested this or not but here goes
> anyway. What about having some pictures when you type in certain key
> combinations. You know, like on MSN Messenger. When you type in
> :) for example, a smiley face appears. When you type in
> :( an unhappy face appears. This would surely brighten up the
> forums a bit.
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Damn you! That was my last idea and just reading yours it came back to me!! NOOOO. It would be like ezboard.com - they make use of this feature.
Oh well you typed it first! :D
> Ok I'm not sure if I've already suggested this or not but here goes
> anyway. What about having some pictures when you type in certain key
> combinations. You know, like on MSN Messenger. When you type in
> :) for example, a smiley face appears. When you type in
> :( an unhappy face appears. This would surely brighten up the
> forums a bit.
******
Damn you! That was my last idea and just reading yours it came back to me!! NOOOO. It would be like ezboard.com - they make use of this feature.
Oh well you typed it first! :D
Ok I'm not sure if I've already suggested this or not but here goes anyway. What about having some pictures when you type in certain key combinations. You know, like on MSN Messenger. When you type in :) for example, a smiley face appears. When you type in :( an unhappy face appears. This would surely brighten up the forums a bit.
These have proably already been mentioned, but anyway:
When you click on a person, and it brings up their No. of posts, words etc. you should have another link to their details (age, name etc. ) but the person themself would have the control as to what others can see about them. Or this infomation could just be displayed in the first profile box.
Another could be like the feature that another.con email has: Colour profiles. You could select the colour you want your SR pages to be displayed in, or the colour you want your profile to appear in for others.
And there was one other, but I forgot it whilst writing the above two, doh!
I'll get bak to you on that one.
Namsy!
When you click on a person, and it brings up their No. of posts, words etc. you should have another link to their details (age, name etc. ) but the person themself would have the control as to what others can see about them. Or this infomation could just be displayed in the first profile box.
Another could be like the feature that another.con email has: Colour profiles. You could select the colour you want your SR pages to be displayed in, or the colour you want your profile to appear in for others.
And there was one other, but I forgot it whilst writing the above two, doh!
I'll get bak to you on that one.
Namsy!
Oops... lol... sorry about that last post... I was trying to make the swear censor screen come up :)
lol... :)
Anyway... what I was going to say was that... when you type a post that includes swearing and cursing... and (when it works) the swearing/cursive error screen comes up... Asking you to refrsae your posting...
Why not display the erronious text...
That way, when people make posts, that are accidently picked up as containig swear words... (which may be included unintentiaonally) The writer knows where the problem words are, saving him the problem of going over and over the text strainign to find a way the word checker could find something offensive?
lol... :)
Anyway... what I was going to say was that... when you type a post that includes swearing and cursing... and (when it works) the swearing/cursive error screen comes up... Asking you to refrsae your posting...
Why not display the erronious text...
That way, when people make posts, that are accidently picked up as containig swear words... (which may be included unintentiaonally) The writer knows where the problem words are, saving him the problem of going over and over the text strainign to find a way the word checker could find something offensive?
When you enter a post... and the Error used
er-no wrote:
> Well great minds think alike...
Heh :-D
...ok next time you suggest an
> idea that has already been mentioned I won't say a word!
I was only joking you know!
> Well great minds think alike...
Heh :-D
...ok next time you suggest an
> idea that has already been mentioned I won't say a word!
I was only joking you know!
Well great minds think alike...
...ok next time you suggest an idea that has already been mentioned I won't say a word!
...ok next time you suggest an idea that has already been mentioned I won't say a word!
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