Spring RTS Engine

I saw the Mavericks torso, or should i say, cube... LOL

back on topic.......
-make/buy and wear spring tshirts.
-get your friends to try spring
-put spring url in your msn/aim whatever display name

etc etc.

On a side note, i isnt graffiti really cool? i mean, i obviously would never condone it, or suggest the linkage of it and spring in any way, but yeah, isnt it cool..

LOL, Graffiti.. I should do that at the public library...

Go Play the Open Source Game TA: Spring Online, NOW!

Snipawolf wrote: Go Play the Open Source Game Spring Online, NOW!

fixed =P

Anyhow, we are close to opensource content as others have said, but I would definatly not go for nanoblobs as a main mod, not because its not high quality (it is) but because its has... quirkey gameplay somecapred to most traditional RTS's. The learning curve to a point is unavoidable because of how the interfaced is tuned to give players lots of micro-reducing controlls (repeats, pauses, adv patrols, selection key editor, AI helpers and so on) that are very, very useuful and also very unique to spring. That all said, I think we are rapidly approaching the point where spring can have a bit more exposure as it constantly improves and streamlines (though streamlineing and further bugfixes are more required in this respect)).

I'm in no position to make decisions about Spring. But There does seem to be a general consensus on what avenues should be taken (correct me if I'm wrong).

By the looks of it, until spring is completely open source (bearing in mind what SwiftSpear had to say; it appears 9/10 games are XTA or AA) no overt action to spread spring should be taken lest we incur the wrath of the relevant corporations.
Having said that, an underground campaign made up of personal endorsement; message boards, sigs, T-shirts :) etc. seems like the best idea.
Particularly since, as someone pointed out, lots of OTA players will be flocking to Supcom soon, particularly those who haven't found Spring yet. (having said that, lets not get into a Supcom debate here )

With regard to the learning curve, imho, it may be somewhat too steep at the moment for gamers who can't be bothered to try twice. But this can easily be changed by scripted in-game tutorials, or as I considered even a pdf/chm distributed with the next release which explains the basics of who to setup a game (NAT hole punching etc) for other noobs to join.
Having said that, I was an OTA player who picked it up and found it easy to play and the controls quite intuitive.

Unless there is a wiki page for promotion or some other centralized point for communication that I'm not aware of, I guess it is best that members such as myself enquire here before posting articles on digg.com, slashdot.org, podcasts, youtube (as someone pointed out) etc. I presume that each would have to be discussed on an individual basis.

And in the mean time, I shall start promoting... quietly but steadily.

Hunter0000 wrote:I would definatly not go for nanoblobs as a main mod, not because its not high quality (it is) but because its has... quirkey gameplay somecapred to most traditional RTS's.

It has a much smaller learning curve compared to OTA based mods. You could think of it as a speedmetal economy with strategy and tactics rather than chokepoints and boredom.

desertlynx wrote:Unless there is a wiki page for promotion or some other centralized point for communication that I'm not aware of, I guess it is best that members such as myself enquire here before posting articles on digg.com, slashdot.org, podcasts, youtube (as someone pointed out) etc. I presume that each would have to be discussed on an individual basis.

I hope you don't mind that I have taken the liberty to make one, though I would appreciate that others help edit.

I hope you don't mind that I have taken the liberty to make one, though I would appreciate that others help edit.

I certainly don't mind if that's who you are referring to. I reckon it's an excellent step.
I'm not entirely sure what is the official Spring logo is at the moment, however, eventually a few icons like this would also be a good addition to the wiki http://www.songbirdnest.com/getsongbird

I as an insider in the games industry now (under a technicallity, I know) am advertising it. I've also suggest Jorminkomiko try and sneek an ad for it into the source for VISTA...

How about the Slogan

"Buy nothing and get a free Game upon ?"

Having said that, an underground campaign made up of personal endorsement; message boards, sigs, T-shirts :) etc. seems like the best idea.

Hum perhaps rather stay realistic about it, no need to get overexcited :)

lol, I think we should "jack" some billboards, for the people that drive a lot

Betalord wrote:

Having said that, an underground campaign made up of personal endorsement; message boards, sigs, T-shirts :) etc. seems like the best idea.

Hum perhaps rather stay realistic about it, no need to get overexcited :)

yep, good point. Please forgive my being a bit overzealous.

Well, I'm doing my part by writing about Spring for the school newspaper, and I plan to get a Spring T-Shirt eventually...

Betalord wrote: Hum perhaps rather stay realistic

Seems to me that bulletin boards, t-shirts, and 'sigs.' (Signatures on boards?) Are a good, realistic way to spread spring. We aren't talking about world peace here :) One question that does come to mind though is how many users the lobby server can actually handle (reasonably)?

If a spring T-shirt gets made that actually looks nice, I'd problably buy it.

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=7238 This on a tshirt i would buy, just needs the URL incorporated into it, also people who played ota would recognise le peewee.

The only rts anyone has ever played at my school is star craft =\ Or warcraft, they all like the speedmetal feel. So i think im doing you all favour by not advertising. But i advertise on a different forum i go to : D

Someday i`ll paint the Spring logo and a link to this site on my car

We need a List of Places in RL and in the Internet, were all those Possible Spring Player - PSPs hang around....