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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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I once meantioned gift vouchers that could be sold. So, I meantion again. :-)
iposted this message in a different forum but i think its more suited to this one (plus it may be noticed easier)-
- how about you give a money off voucher everytime someone submits a certain amount of cheats or good reviews? The person could then use that voucher to purchase stuff on YOUR site. This means that most of the visiters who visit your site would evntually purchase from YOU and not your competitiors. People could earn credits for each submission, and once they get enough credits you give them money off their next purchase in your site. I think this would therefore be a good way of turning your web visitors into shoppers/customers aswell. reply and tell me what you think!
- how about you give a money off voucher everytime someone submits a certain amount of cheats or good reviews? The person could then use that voucher to purchase stuff on YOUR site. This means that most of the visiters who visit your site would evntually purchase from YOU and not your competitiors. People could earn credits for each submission, and once they get enough credits you give them money off their next purchase in your site. I think this would therefore be a good way of turning your web visitors into shoppers/customers aswell. reply and tell me what you think!
You could do one of those things where you ask people what their game character would be. Say Mario for the head and Sonic for the legs and they have to say why. You then build up an image of their character they made and post it on the site.
How about people dress up as there favorite character......
....Ok I wil stop now
:P
....Ok I wil stop now
:P
How about a little game where we can throw custard pies at Tony and the whole of the SR crew or something! hehe!
(No serouisly)
(No serouisly)
I've posted that idea before :-s
Your Honour wrote:
> Yeah that could work. But everyone could join in if they took a
> photo of their telly and posted it by mail to SR.
Yeah but that'd be a little inconveniant. And plus getting the lighting right for the pci to come out is damn near impossible!
> Yeah that could work. But everyone could join in if they took a
> photo of their telly and posted it by mail to SR.
Yeah but that'd be a little inconveniant. And plus getting the lighting right for the pci to come out is damn near impossible!
Yeah that could work. But everyone could join in if they took a photo of their telly and posted it by mail to SR.
Games mags do it for top score competitons. For PC owners it would be asier as you could just email it.
Games mags do it for top score competitons. For PC owners it would be asier as you could just email it.
Maybe SR could provide a screenshot every week or so and the users have to sen in their captions by e-mail. That way, everyone can join in!
Just posted this on the chatter FoG before i realised this was here:
I've just had an idea for a competiton you may be able to run. It's a "Caption the screenshot" competition.
People can take screenshots from there PC games, or photograph the screen for a console game, and add there own caption, like in the magazines.
The funniest could win a prize. It may be a bit much to do everyday but you may be able to do one every fortnight or so.
Just an idea.
I've just had an idea for a competiton you may be able to run. It's a "Caption the screenshot" competition.
People can take screenshots from there PC games, or photograph the screen for a console game, and add there own caption, like in the magazines.
The funniest could win a prize. It may be a bit much to do everyday but you may be able to do one every fortnight or so.
Just an idea.
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