Spring RTS Engine

On to something more fun. The idea is to list any element you can come up with that you'd put on the website to help us reach the goals we mentioned earlier:

1.2 What are the short- and long-term goals of the site?
short term
* attract new players
* provide visual marketing through flashy graphics which consist primarily of screenshots and videos, secondary storyline and gameplay summary)
* make getting started with CA easy
* make CA look like an attractive and engaging game
* add a wiki-guide to provide a link between the new players and the old; the old players write the content so that new players learn the nuances of the different units more quickly
* attract visual and sound artists

long term
* list news and updates
* offer community features such as a forum for discussion
* provide a central place where visitors can find all needed information (combination of TRAC, wiki, forum,... + external links)
* integrate development functionality such as TRAC provides
* generate recurring interest
* attract developers

Listing
updated 29th August 2.01am GMT+1

TEASING / MARKETING
billboard: screenshot slideshow or video
event announcement (e.g. learn from the masters! join game "x" 29 august at 8pm)
tournament ladder
top 5/10/50 ladder players
battle report videos (similar to starcraft http://tinyurl.com/lmo3s9)
short testimonial sentences
"we're currently looking for"-box
wallpapers (and other fanbased stuff)
links of CA on other websites such as Twitter, Facebook, ... (marketing)
download links
short and intense promotional video

MEDIA
fullscreen slideshow player
videoplayer
unit specific videos
unit specific screenshots
general screenshots
general gameplay videos
best artwork/concept sketches

NEWS
news listing
news articles
RSS-link
list of replies
recent revision changes

INTERACTIVE
"bookmark this page"-button
a weekly 'ask the devs' column
a way to comment on articles
get notified of updates (subscribe by email)
TRAC integration
central login for all integrated sites (if possible)
forums
possibly report bugs/faw (redirects to trac)
input box for contacting, so that no registering or email client is required
search box
shoutbox
planetwars website integration

INFORMATIVE
short and prominent introduction text (what CA is about)
FAQs
introduction/newbie guide
gameplay summary
unit list/overview
individual unit descriptions and statistics
indepth wiki for more information
unit of the day with short description/hints
contact information
list of credits
sitemap
search results

LEGAL
legal policy
copyright notice
terms of use

forums
possibly report bugs/faw (redirects to trac)
credits (with real names if people want to, some people might want to use this site/reference in search for future job)

unit of the day with short description/hints
contact information
input box for contacting, so that no registering or email client is required
news articles
a way to comment on articles
list of replies
short testimonial sentences
...

links of CA on other websites such as Twitter, Facebook, ... (marketing)
get notified of updates (subscribe by email)
"bookmark this page"-button

best artwork/concept sketches

individual unit descriptions and statistics
event announcement (e.g. learn from the masters! join game "x" 29 august at 8pm)

wallpapers (and other fanbased stuff)

I believe we've more or less listed everything that could be used. If you can think of anything else to add, please do so.

digg/reddit
a weekly 'ask the devs' column

added the column :)

digg/reddit will be listed under the "bookmark this page"-button

This is excellent. Thank you. Much easier to check stuff off now

Edit: Spent a couple minutes organizing them, but there were a few that I'm not sure what they mean.


a weekly 'ask the devs' column
RSS-link
"we're currently looking for"-box
list of replies
short testimonial sentences
fullscreen slideshow player

Any clarification would be nice.

Also, I noticed quite a few "news" items, I'll probably condense them all into one and have them below the intro stuff on the main page. Digg/Reddit doesn't seem very necessary, as this is a game site, not a news site.

We could definitely warrant joining/posting stories to these sites though, to promote some interest/hype. If we worked together as a whole community we might even push ourselves to the front page and reach critical mass [/wishful thinking]

maackey, it's a list of elements that can be put on webpages. Can you elaborate on what you don't precisely understand?

tournament ladder
battle report videos (similar to starcraft http://tinyurl.com/lmo3s9)

grouped and labeled the content in the first post

added "short and intense promotional video"

search box
search results
sitemap

top 5/10/50 ladder players
shoutbox
recent revision changes

Isnt it growing huge lol? :)

Yes, but a lot of these could be considered duplicates, and some are pretty small/simple. (Plus we aren't doing *all* of these are we? There are a few that I would just as soon leave out as they wouldn't add anything of value)

exactly :) it's a list of what's possible to implement. Afterwards we can pick out the elements with most priority to handle the short term goals.