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Journey:
Promoting to people who already play roguelikes is easiest - use the newsgroup, and message the roguetemple site operator.  However this group of people is pretty small.  It may be the case that it's worth trying to promote DoomRL to people who don't play roguelikes, especially once the graphical version is out.  Difficult, but a far larger pool of potential players.

One possible video type to create is to interspirse DoomRL footage with parallel footage from Doom.  Show Doomguy shooting a bunch of guys in Doom, then cut to Doomguy shooting a bunch of the same guys in a similar situation in DoomRL.

Madtrixr:
I heard about this when I listened to the Doom episode of Retronauts.

Thomas:
Just to keep this thread going, I'm pretty sure DoomRL already has much more word-of-mouth than many other roguelikes. In my experience, people bring up DoomRL within the first couple of pages of talking about roguelikes on other sites, even sites that are just generally about games.

I agree that the bigger problem is people not downloading it after hearing about it. Partially because its appeal as a roguelike is lost on many people, of course.

I'd either increase the publicity DoomRL gets on roguelike-dedicated sites (To be honest, I don't see it mentioned on roguelike sites nearly as much as game sites, ironically) or somehow make it more appealing to the average nerdy gamer like myself.

Aki:
Strangely enough, DooMRL's mentioned less on Rougetemple or whatever it is then BerserkRL or AliensRL.

Vestin:
This gives me another idea - we could make a tutorial video, explaining everything a person needs to know about DOOM:RL and RLs in general to start blasting some zombies. All we need is a good script and a person with sexy voice.

Of course - the response will be MUCH better if we manage to get a female voiceover of it xP...


--- Quote from: Plague Doctor on October 07, 2009, 13:49 ---But you're right, I bitched and bitched without actually giving any kind of solution. So, here's one: If you need someone to edit some kind of movie together, some sessions or whatever, I might be able to help, both at home with premiere or at school with Avid or final cut.

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Excellent. Now all we need is to figure out how we want our trailer to look (and sound) and record some games...

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