Press and Reviews Thread

[The Caffeine Kid]

How much is it for an ad in RetroGamer? That would be a good place to bung one if you decided to advertise "properly" I would think?

[hyphz]

How about creating a Page on Facebook, so people can become Fans?

Free AFAIK, although the UI for doing so's a bit weird.

[IronGiant]

Also worth remembering that we're entering the run-up to Christmas, ie a prime time for both good AND bad games to be buried in the blizzard of product hitting the shelves (both actual and virtual).

[Yak]

we're in Gamasutra's best of indie picks:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=25514

[IronGiant]

Woah - excellent!

Edit: Some nasty, blinkered comments from various people though, in among the good ones:

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2009/09/ ... r_and.html

[Yak]

Rule #1 I learned from the Space Giraffe episode: never read the comments .

[IronGiant]

Very wise.

[PVB]

Just noticed that the Llamasoft details on GamesPress have an e-mail address that looks wrong:

http://www.gamespress.com/publisher.asp?c=%A8%1AMY

Llamasoft

Location: United Kingdom
Web site: http://www.llamasoft.co.uk
PR contacts: media@llamasoft.org

Yak may want to e-mail them to update to the correct one, in case anyone in the media is using that contact e-mail.

mail@gamespress.com

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Another idea might be for someone to create a Facebook group. I don't personally use Facebook very much, but millions do!

Quite - Or a Fan page with screenies and links to vids and reviews perhaps...

[K-J N.]

Giant Bomb mentioned Gridrunner Revolution at the end (140:27) of their podcast last week and they will do a Quick Look of it this week. If you don't know what that is, here is a Quick Look of the XBLA version of Space Invaders Extreme (since Llamasoft is mentioned in it).

[hyphz]

Another idea might be for someone to create a Facebook group. I don't personally use Facebook very much, but millions do!

Quite - Or a Fan page with screenies and links to vids and reviews perhaps...

Anyone can create a Group, but only an "authorised representative" can create a Fan page.

[ALLseeingEYE]

Nice to see some more positive press coming out. Not sure why Gamasutra didn't just direct link to the llamasoft site and the demo though. Would have been more convenient.

Also, I know you guys are busy, but any word on a small cover art pic for metacritic Yak or Giles? Judging by the other cover art pics on Metacritic, a small gameplay pic could possibly be used, unless you guys would rather have the words Gridrunner Revolution plastered across the pic's face. I can help here too if you'd like. I have some Photoshop skills

I was also wanting to email the editor and see if we can get gridrunner listed on the center new releases column. They have other indie games such as Zume, and Bookworm adventures on there, and often list XBLA games there in the Xbox section, so I don't see why it shouldn't get listed. Would be great for visibility, especially now that an official score has been listed.

Edit. Just emailed Metacritic regarding getting this in the What's New section. Hopefully will get a response, and some movement soon.

[gilesgoat]

Nice to see some more positive press coming out. Not sure why Gamasutra didn't just direct link to the llamasoft site and the demo though. Would have been more convenient.

Also, I know you guys are busy, but any word on a small cover art pic for metacritic Yak or Giles? Judging by the other cover art pics on Metacritic, a small gameplay pic could possibly be used, unless you guys would rather have the words Gridrunner Revolution plastered across the pic's face. I can help here too if you'd like. I have some Photoshop skills

I was also wanting to email the editor and see if we can get gridrunner listed on the center new releases column. They have other indie games such as Zume, and Bookworm adventures on there, and often list XBLA games there in the Xbox section, so I don't see why it shouldn't get listed. Would be great for visibility, especially now that an official score has been listed.

Edit. Just emailed Metacritic regarding getting this in the What's New section. Hopefully will get a response, and some movement soon.

Yeah sure I can do a small pic, we have plenty of material.

More important, can you email me who/where I should email this too ?

[ALLseeingEYE]

No problem man. Email sent.

I haven't received a reply about getting the game listed on the What's new section, so they might be ignoring my request. But I also emailed Gamerankings about getting the other 3 scores listed, but they said they don't support those site, and gave me the link below:

List of sites Supported by Gamerankings
http://www.gamerankings.com/sites/index.html

[PVB]

More important, can you email me who/where I should email this too ?

Can only find this contact form:

http://www.metacritic.com/about/contact.shtml

Edit: Beaten to it by AsE.