[Pimp] Outpost:Haven

[tomsamson]

Cool you got it onto Kong mate =)
Regarding your earlier reply to me: Nice, i wasn´t even aware Newgrounds was paying (good i hope =) ) for games.
Regarding running an own portal: Yeah, you know, we´ve been there with SN before and haven´t done it back then, meanwhile i dunno how viable it is to run an own portal when a bigger and bigger chunk of gamers is using facebook or their mobiles for the quick gaming fix.

Regarding Outpost: What´s next, a unity 3D version? I´d like that =)

Regarding the state of these forums: Yeah, you know, its not an issue with your game at all, as we talked about it before with blogs, twitter, facebook and google+ etc becoming the dominant places where people talk about their games or the development of their games and then the sites where they post the games, so there getting feedback from the audience playing the games or working on games for those places there directly, yeah, a forum like this is automatically way less trafficked than it was when all those other options didn´t exist yet or weren´t used by most yet.

It surely also has to do with how the games and flash markets have changed though, with sponsored or free to play advertising or micro transaction stuff becoming more and more common sites centered around such topics and games are trafficked higher and with flash itself, well, Adobe hasn´t exactly helped it staying the en vogue thing besides for those who already use it what with their actions in the last 6-12 months.

When you look at the unity forums in comparison they have massively growing user counts on their forums (which is both a good and a bad thing, there are way more topics coming up but with that also a larger chunk of nonsense of course, but yeah, also some really cool stuff =) ).

Me personally, besides client work i´m only really interested in doing flash stuff these days either when it is about using unity to export to flash or if and when the flash ide´s mobile flash app exporter´s result´s performance is good enough for that maybe deploying a flash made game to mobile.

So yeah, when sponsored, advertising or micro transaction driven games, or ones being deployed to mobile or being deployed as flash file from unity, well, when all these have their own active communities, there´s not that much left to a general but flash centric place like here.

Its weird yes, but if you look at the unity forums they have lots of posts on flash stuff exporting topics now so probably a much more active "flash game dev" community than the one here.

I see this place as more of a place where i get to say hi to the other old farts like me in between and in between seeing what all are up to, for the more active day to day chatter i use the other options, too.