goodoldganon
Smash Champion
As I'm sure any Brawl+ member has noticed I've kinda just lurked the **** out of the WBR, your discussion topics, and occasionally tried to post my two cents. Well that's not why I got to keep a position back here and I'm sorry for taking so long to finally get off my WoW addicted *** and do something for you guys.
Well as you guys can tell from Yeroc's topic up top my job (along with Neko's) is the head of PR and advertising. Well, here are my ideas to get started on this adventure. Some can be completed by Friday others will take more time.
First, I would like to start a simple Facebook group. The group would contain the neccessary links, maybe some good pictures, a good few videos, and anything else pertinent. Probably downloading information, troubleshooting and the like. I'm sure many of you are like, 'WTF is the point in a Facebook group?' I understand that complaint. The purpose of the Facebook group is to reach a broader range of players and people to advertise Brawl+, BBrawl, Brawl-, Project : M, and any awesome DLC characters.
Though Brawl+ and BBrawl aren't meant for your everyday casual player to play, advertising these games to the largest demographic of people possible is the smartest and most effective way to spread the word about a new and upcoming game. I'm sure we have all played with good players who have never even heard of Smashboards and lets face it, besides for the occasional troll topic in GameFAQs no hacked games get much attention outside of Smashboards. Basically, I'll be designing a Facebook group to try and spread the word around amongst friends. Be they old highschool friends, long ago buddies, or even campus friends. All major designers will be given moderation privileges of the group to update the place as they see fit.
Second I would like to start a Twitter account for the WBR. To start this I'll need a WBR logo but hopefully I can whip one up pretty quickly. The Twitter account would try to reach the same demographic as the Facebook group, but would be more in tune with immediate updates and news. Quick tweets about upcoming tournaments, links to important posts (like when Veril posted what Brawl+ was looking at fixing next), tourney results, new updates from BBrawl, Brawl- or new characters. You guys get the point.
The other thing I would like to do with Twitter is host Developer chats. My idea is allow people to post tweets on our account for an hour or so and developers (Cape, Veril, Shanus etc.) could post their answers to the questions in a separate topic in the Smash Workshop. This would allow people to really have their voices heard and try and get an idea on what goes on back here. Here is an example of one Blizzard did recently for WoW:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?tpstart=25
It's down a little bit.
With my computer problems I fell way behind on the major thing I wanted to do which was a redesign of the character change list. Of course I am waiting for an official list but I should have actually done the bulk of the coding work. Sadly with the reformat of my computer I lost my 'copy' of flash and now I must 'reobtain' it. My internet in my apartment is poopy so I'll have to wait till I go home in a week or two and get it then. I'll just wait and show you guys what I'm thinking of as soon as I make progress on that end.
I was also wondering if we wanted to include the other major Brawl hacks as a side tab to our site. If not, I can probably whip up really simple sites (no I will not make you a Flash site I will make you a Dreamweaver site) for Project M, BBrawl, and Brawl-.
I have a few more simple things but these were the major points. Thoughts???
Well as you guys can tell from Yeroc's topic up top my job (along with Neko's) is the head of PR and advertising. Well, here are my ideas to get started on this adventure. Some can be completed by Friday others will take more time.
First, I would like to start a simple Facebook group. The group would contain the neccessary links, maybe some good pictures, a good few videos, and anything else pertinent. Probably downloading information, troubleshooting and the like. I'm sure many of you are like, 'WTF is the point in a Facebook group?' I understand that complaint. The purpose of the Facebook group is to reach a broader range of players and people to advertise Brawl+, BBrawl, Brawl-, Project : M, and any awesome DLC characters.
Though Brawl+ and BBrawl aren't meant for your everyday casual player to play, advertising these games to the largest demographic of people possible is the smartest and most effective way to spread the word about a new and upcoming game. I'm sure we have all played with good players who have never even heard of Smashboards and lets face it, besides for the occasional troll topic in GameFAQs no hacked games get much attention outside of Smashboards. Basically, I'll be designing a Facebook group to try and spread the word around amongst friends. Be they old highschool friends, long ago buddies, or even campus friends. All major designers will be given moderation privileges of the group to update the place as they see fit.
Second I would like to start a Twitter account for the WBR. To start this I'll need a WBR logo but hopefully I can whip one up pretty quickly. The Twitter account would try to reach the same demographic as the Facebook group, but would be more in tune with immediate updates and news. Quick tweets about upcoming tournaments, links to important posts (like when Veril posted what Brawl+ was looking at fixing next), tourney results, new updates from BBrawl, Brawl- or new characters. You guys get the point.
The other thing I would like to do with Twitter is host Developer chats. My idea is allow people to post tweets on our account for an hour or so and developers (Cape, Veril, Shanus etc.) could post their answers to the questions in a separate topic in the Smash Workshop. This would allow people to really have their voices heard and try and get an idea on what goes on back here. Here is an example of one Blizzard did recently for WoW:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?tpstart=25
It's down a little bit.
With my computer problems I fell way behind on the major thing I wanted to do which was a redesign of the character change list. Of course I am waiting for an official list but I should have actually done the bulk of the coding work. Sadly with the reformat of my computer I lost my 'copy' of flash and now I must 'reobtain' it. My internet in my apartment is poopy so I'll have to wait till I go home in a week or two and get it then. I'll just wait and show you guys what I'm thinking of as soon as I make progress on that end.
I was also wondering if we wanted to include the other major Brawl hacks as a side tab to our site. If not, I can probably whip up really simple sites (no I will not make you a Flash site I will make you a Dreamweaver site) for Project M, BBrawl, and Brawl-.
I have a few more simple things but these were the major points. Thoughts???
