Although I do have banners, they are *so old*, four years old (likely even older), that they are even highly irrelevent to my website as it is. What's mentioned in them otherwise has little to do with my website and when first made, I otherwise had almost no knowledge of Gamestudio, barely even able to make blocks, let alone having a whole working game. I have had intentions on replacing them, but my motive has always been negative for all that time. Now that I've got a more worthy reason, the motive is around neutral increasing the chances of making any.

I'm already using Regnow. The affiliates require 3 banners. I don't know any game portals (except those with simple chess and checkers, nothing like my game), but I have had intentions on using some software download site to list the free edition.

What you need are Reviews, someone needs to test you game and post for write reviews for well know webpages.

And as allready said, crate a special website just for your game, where you advertise it and
tell all potential customers about its fetures, and why exactly they have to play it, which means to buy it.

A product can be as good as choclate, but without advertising, it's dead.

old_bill

the best advertisement is to make a good game, that people talk about

I dont buy games, unless I test a demo, or they are really cheap or have the Blizzard-Label on them..
And I never bought a game online ...

Me too

Though I'd prefer playing a demo before buying, I usually buy after a few reviews and a few videos of the game in action. So getting people to review a game is a good idea me thinks.

Since it seems like reviews are what I need, how do I get them? The only reviews are from the Showcase II forum my forum (only a few rare cases due to the major lack of traffic to my website), and a few E-mails I've gotten. A video doesn't really seem like an option - the file size, even for 10 seconds' worth at 20 fps (200 frames) and 640x480 resolution, is bigger than than the program itself. Using Winzip on it wouldn't be worthy unlike all other AVIs I have so I'd need a codec and I don't have any worthy codecs. Although I do know how to make a video of it, there are two issues:

1. Using CamStudio only seems to use 16-bit color causing the graphics to look very weird - it doesn't allow for me to use uncompressed frames.
2. Writing a small code to capture frames don't work either as after the first save, all files are JPG, not BMP or PNG. This is a bug in 6.31, the only version that works with my 2D game (6.4x causes odd things to happen and SED is horrible to use due to the way the cursor behaves (the column is not remembered).). 6.22 doesn't support 24-bit images so I can't use that either to save as BMP as it did by default. Past here, I have no other method.

The main thing is is that I do have a working demo.

It's already mentioned, but do try to upload your demo at as many places as humanly possible, sites like tucows and download.com that get huge amounts of traffic. It's by far the fastest way to get some attention, spread your name... You could also try to get online magazines to review your game, eventhough there are quite some biased and unfair reviewers out there and off course games that aren't good by their standards will get low marks and lots of critics.

Cheers

Well you could upload a video to youtube.com or google video or something like that. Give it the right tags and you can get plenty of people to see it. Then end your video with a link to the site of the game.