Unpublished.Naruto Channel T_T

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Jul 24 2006, 1:59 pm


The point:
I'm seeing too many Naruto games (just like DBZ) when looking to find something fun to play that is unique. Maybe there could be a page for Unpublished that shows subsections like the main Games.BYOND page. Just a suggestion!


-Ian
Jul 24 2006, 3:21 pm (Edited on Jul 24 2006, 3:32 pm)
Dude, last time I checked there was only about 3 DBZ games in the Unpublished.DBZ channel, or is that the FanGames.DragonballZ channel? FanGames.Unpublished.DragonballZ doesn't have nearly all of the DBZ games out there; they still dominate the unpublished section. These channels are all weird anyway, I see a "DBTC games" (1 game) and an "Iccusion games" channel, which can be found simply by looking up Iccusion Entertainment's games anyway. [link] from 3 years ago said they were going to manually move Unpublished DBZ games to the FanGames.Unpublished.DBZ channel to clean up the unpublished section. Did that happen? No. No one will change their game to the FanGames.Unpublished.Naruto section 1) They might not know how to 2) Their game is probably getting more popularity not being there.
Jul 24 2006, 5:08 pm
In response to Justin Knight
DBZ games are supposed to go here.
Jul 24 2006, 9:36 pm
In response to Justin Knight
Their game is probably getting more popularity not being there.

That is the main reason why developers choose not to list their DBZ games in the DBZ.Unpublished channel. Since their is an actual "Unpublished Games" link on the main "Games Live" page, BYONDers tend to browse through that instead of manually going through the pull-down menu.
Jul 24 2006, 10:33 pm
In response to Justin Knight
Justin Knight wrote:
[link] from 3 years ago said they were going to manually move Unpublished DBZ games to the FanGames.Unpublished.DBZ channel to clean up the unpublished section. Did that happen? No.

Actually, yes it did. We did go and add DBZ games to the unpublished DBZ channel. Problem was, when they were in that channel they were less visible (by design) - so what did the authors do? Manually remove them so they would end up in the more-visible Unpublished channel!

Once the guild system is fully in operation, the whole channels deal will hopefully get swept to one side anyway, and this problem will just go away.
Jul 25 2006, 3:26 am
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Once the guild system is fully in operation, the whole channels deal will hopefully get swept to one side anyway, and this problem will just go away.

Hmm? If I'm thinking this out correctly, that would mean that only BYOND Members can open channels to put games in.
If that is the case, how are us freebies going to put our game on the hub?
Jul 25 2006, 5:24 am
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Actually, yes it did. We did go and add DBZ games to the unpublished DBZ channel. Problem was, when they were in that channel they were less visible (by design) - so what did the authors do? Manually remove them so they would end up in the more-visible Unpublished channel!

Okay, I was wrong, but not completely wrong. There are obviously design flaws in this. Why move something to a channel when they can remove it from there? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Why does "Iccusion games"(3 games that you can find on their member page) show up in the "Filter by category" drop-down list but not the "FanGames.DragonballZ.Unpublished" channel? I've seen multiple channels which contain only a few games be created and then get deleted, what's up with that? How will the guild system deal with this?
Jul 25 2006, 7:59 am
In response to Justin Knight
Wasn't Fangames.DBZ the unpublished one? Otherwise it would just go under plain Fangames, or that's how I thought it worked.
Jul 25 2006, 8:29 am
In response to Justin Knight
Funny thing is, I actually TRIED to put my old DBZ game on there but it wasn't accepting any entries..But I guess we just have to wait for the filter.
Jul 25 2006, 6:38 pm
In response to Android Data
Android Data wrote:
Hmm? If I'm thinking this out correctly, that would mean that only BYOND Members can open channels to put games in.
If that is the case, how are us freebies going to put our game on the hub?

Submit it to someone else's guild, of course.
Jul 25 2006, 6:40 pm
In response to Justin Knight
Justin Knight wrote:
There are obviously design flaws in this.

Yes, I agree. Hence the guild system. It's a pity that it took so long, but that's the unfortunate reality of behind-the-scenes BYOND development - it happens in short productive bursts more often than it happens in sustained periods of output.
Jul 26 2006, 1:42 am
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Android Data wrote:
Hmm? If I'm thinking this out correctly, that would mean that only BYOND Members can open channels to put games in.
If that is the case, how are us freebies going to put our game on the hub?

Submit it to someone else's guild, of course.

Will there be default guilds like the default channels we have now? (BYOND.Action, BYOND.RPG, BYOND.Raw, ...)