Unofficial Tex Murphy

Not sure if this counts as an article, but we are mentioned under Kickstarter watch here (Retronauts):
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9106862

I made a post about Tex on the Rotten Tomatoes general gaming forums. I didn't have the right to post new threads, so I had to put it in a general gaming discussion thread which has been ongoing for a while.

I tried to tie it to movies in hopes that that would help:

http://vine.rottentomatoes.com/vine/sho ... 6&page=517

Good post Matthew.

Italian article:
http://leganerd.com/2012/05/26/tex-murp ... ct-fedora/
Google translate link into English:
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... d%3Dimvnso

Gamespot mentioned us today!
http://www.gamespot.com/features/this-w ... bj=6378390

Always been a part of gamespot in one form or another since 1996 when it opened. Glad they listened to us! That's great exposure!

There's a growing resistance among a lot of sites to post about kickstarter projects. I get that you don't want to just turn into a promotion machine for a lot of starry eyed dreams of potentially dubious merit, but it's ponderous to me why some sites would stonewall coverage even when the very existence of the kickstarter itself is newsworthy, as is the case with the revival of a classic franchise.

redcat72 wrote:Italian article:
http://leganerd.com/2012/05/26/tex-murp ... ct-fedora/
Google translate link into English:
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... d%3Dimvnso

there is one that got me back instantly got a dwarf

OMG! where do i need to pledge to instantly get a dwarf?!

Frogacuda wrote:There's a growing resistance among a lot of sites to post about kickstarter projects. I get that you don't want to just turn into a promotion machine for a lot of starry eyed dreams of potentially dubious merit, but it's ponderous to me why some sites would stonewall coverage even when the very existence of the kickstarter itself is newsworthy, as is the case with the revival of a classic franchise.

Because: give somebody the means, the motive and the opportunity to be a dick, and they will come into their own.

Also remember most adventure game fans were playing games before any of these site administrators were even born contributes to the general lack of respect for anything that isn't less than 2 years old.

-Cub. =o)

I wonder if there are loads of people who don't actually read the forums of those sites anyway - look at our numbers yesterday - we had the most numbers of new backers in a week on the same day that Gamespot featured Tex as kickstarter project of the week.

Hopefully we'll see a lot of backers this week, especially at the end when people get paid.

Matthew Buckstein wrote:I made a post about Tex on the Rotten Tomatoes general gaming forums. I didn't have the right to post new threads, so I had to put it in a general gaming discussion thread which has been ongoing for a while.

I tried to tie it to movies in hopes that that would help:

http://vine.rottentomatoes.com/vine/sho ... 6&page=517

have you noticed when ever you post in a forum they just ignore you & continue on their merry way.

YES! *hmphs and walks off*

No but seriously, you have to be in the right place to get the right people to care. Imagine what kind of person would like Tex Murphy. What backgrounds, what age group, and from there try to target certain sites. I've tried to do that myself by targeting older gaming communities (there seems to be a lot of these.), casual and otherwise. There are lots of places we're not thinking of where people spend the primary amount of their internet time, and aren't exposed to it.

I've been actually having a good time, and just making a game out of it, trying to find new and untapped places the word hasn't reached. Have a really promising one in the oldergamers.com thing, just waiting to see if anyone who can write better than me might want to come up with a news piece to post there. If not, I'm gonna give it a try. that's about 40,000 hopefuls.

Also been thinking of trying older gaming communities from other non-english speaking countries. That may be a vast untapped resource as well.

Cubase wrote:Also remember most adventure game fans were playing games before any of these site administrators were even born contributes to the general lack of respect for anything that isn't less than 2 years old.

It's not really true. Most of the people working in game journalism are a lot more knowledgable than people realize. The problem is a lot of them hate their audience. They think their audience is a bunch of 13 year old idiots and they pander to that.

I personally don't think you can write good content without respect for your audience. Even if you write for a broad audience you can still write something meaningful and substantial, and they will follow it to the end and read the whole thing if it's good.

Cubase wrote: Also remember most adventure game fans were playing games before any of these site administrators were even born contributes to the general lack of respect for anything that isn't less than 2 years old.

I don't know if I should show my age and own up to it, but, yeah, I was playing adventure games before they had graphics. But, I think we adventure gamers are still the vast minority of gamers out there. So, I think it's not unusual for the genre (and us) to get ignored.

dcat151 wrote:I don't know if I should show my age and own up to it, but, yeah, I was playing adventure games before they had graphics.

If I remember right I was playing on a Commodore 64 as a little kid (either before or just after I started school). I remember playing some text adventure games, I'm not sure but they might of been the old Scott Adams ones Pirate Adventure and Mission Impossible. I remember I got stuck on each of them though and never finished With the Pirate one it was getting lost in a series of caves and the Mission one it was getting lost in a series of coridoors. I mean they did try to make things sound different in the text e.g. different coloured doors etc. but yeah... I was very confused!