Castle Paradox

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

I have a gang? Does it include Komera? *hopes*

Anyway, actually Castle Paradox, according to IM himself, is supposed to be about *all* game engines, not just the Ohrrpgce. Although it focuses on the Ohrrpgce, you can actually host games from other engines too, review them etc. (I believe SDHawk has a few Sphere games on the games list). So I still belong here even though I use an engine besides the Ohrrpgce.
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The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

Of course, allowing games from other engines doesn't mean it's about all engines in any way, but IM saying it's about all engines does.

The reason we get more news about Ohrrpgce updates than about updates to other engines probably has something to do with most of the Ohrrpgce developers using this forum and few of the developers of other engines using this forum (just NeoTA that I can think of, and me if you count the Tomato Engine).
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The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

To my knowledge IM has never updated the "news" section with anything that was Ohr-exclusive, all his posts there that I see are about changes to the site.

And I actually agree that this site might be better if it were Ohr-exclusive, it'd make it more focused, I was just noting that IM has said that that's not what he wants, and that there's a lot of precedent in this forum where people talked about non-Ohr games that they've made. There are even forums not related to the Ohr at all, such as a forum where people post art (most of the art posted there has nothing to do with the Ohr). So while it's ridiculous to say that this isn't an Ohr site, it's also ridiculous to say that anything not related to the Ohr is out of place here.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

The thing about Castle Paradox being an all-game engine site is the fact that it wouldn't go very far outside of the scope of OHR if we tried. Zelda Classic already has a community of its own, and I heard Game Maker does as well. They probably don't have much business trying to migrate to Castle Paradox.

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

Game Maker has a number of big communities, I'd say it has at least 10 messageboards that are each bigger than CP. But still, there's no forum for "people who use all kinds of engines", so CP could fill that niche just as well as it could fill the "only Ohrrpgce games allowed" niche.
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The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

FyreWulff · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

It's impossible to get traffic to any site if you're not Castle Paradox. I only managed to bring over about 5 people and 2 new guys with any site I wrote. It was just such a juggernaut that getting the foot in the door was rediculous. There was also a campaign run by Ubersteve and crew earlier on in the engine where they spambombed every other OHRRPGCE site than RPG Online, making everyone go to RPG Online, hence how we ended up being all on one site. Then too many forums were made for too small a community (even in it's heyday there was a max of two forums: OHRRPGCE main and OHRRPGCE general, even with the move to Zantetsuken)

It's just going to take a good plan and great leadership to turn this community around. It's possible to bring it back. People just have to want it. You'll notice that in all this huge active communities that there's no "clique of power" like the OHRRPGCE's had. If the community avoids doing this again, everything should be fine.

... well, this thread is getting off topic as it is.