Dood77
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Post by Dood77 on Jul 16, 2006 20:37:33 GMT -5
In the thread about the ST IGN article, lucas gave me an idea. My idea was to create an add banner to advertise downloading startropics on the Wii virual console, so I spent about an hour or so and threw together a test: startropics.zip.io/STbannertest.htmlIts a standard 468x60 banner size and the background color (those rounded corners) can be changed in the html of the page its on. Heres the code for the banner (replace BACKGROUND_COLOR_HERE with the background color of the page its on): <!-- URL's used in the movie--> <!-- text used in the movie--> <!--Getting tired of waiting for new releases?Looking for a good game to buy on the VC?Look no further! Click here!--><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" id="stWiiAd" ALIGN=""> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="stWiiAd.swf"> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000> <EMBED src="http://startropics.zip.io/stWiiAd.swf" menu=false quality=high bgcolor=BACKGROUND_COLOR_HERE WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" NAME="stWiiAd" ALIGN="center" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED> </OBJECT>
If anyone has any problems or suggestions, please post EDIT: whoops, the current version uploaded on the site doesnt have a url in it, so when you click it it goes knowhere, so putting it on a page wouldn't be much use
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Post by Michael Jones on Jul 16, 2006 22:08:00 GMT -5
Very nice ;D. A small suggestion is maybe to make the words change a bit faster. You want to make sure they read the whole thing before they go to another page.
P.S. I'm not very smart on the subject but I'm wondering how we are going to get sites to put this banner on it? Or will we just put it in our signitures of other forums we are part of?
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Icarus
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Post by Icarus on Jul 16, 2006 23:12:06 GMT -5
To advertise the game, I had the idea that our various members could go to various places and post the mysterious message of "747" in an ominous manner. Then we could somehow gererate buzz and tell people what it means! Or, we could create a viral video. Maybe we could get footage of us playing the first level in real life! It could be top down like the game, or third person like a modern game! Imagine the attention that would get on youtube or newgrounds! The possibilities are endless!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Dood77
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Post by Dood77 on Jul 16, 2006 23:53:05 GMT -5
Maybe we could get footage of us playing the first level in real life! lol! That would be awesome We could do it top down with stop-motion I figured we could get it on our sites (if any of us have one) or in our signatures on other forums.
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startropicsmaster
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Post by startropicsmaster on Jul 17, 2006 5:44:27 GMT -5
maybe we can put up the 1st 15-20 pages of erico's story to show about the game, sense thats the part about the game itself. Just a thought.
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Post by Michael Jones on Jul 17, 2006 13:34:28 GMT -5
We could also ask Mitch to put it on his site. I don't see why he would decline.
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startropicsmaster
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Post by startropicsmaster on Jul 18, 2006 5:46:53 GMT -5
i can e-mail "Erico" and see if he doesn't mind...matter of fact, I'll go do that now.
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startropicsmaster
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Post by startropicsmaster on Jul 18, 2006 19:11:52 GMT -5
just got word from erico. he said "knock yourself out!". so we have word from him to put it on here, now all we need is mitch's permision...
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Post by Michael Jones on Jul 18, 2006 21:48:32 GMT -5
Thats great. Hopefully we see Mitch here soon unless somone e-mails him.
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Post by Coralcola on Jul 20, 2006 18:12:54 GMT -5
I'd love for all this to happen, but I wish I had a way to contribute otherwise. Not being computer savvy, and really no connections or technical knowhow whatsoever either, I don't think I could help much... I just tell people who I think have any sorta clue about the VG industry about ST, and tell them how great I think it is. Some of them have researched it a bit and have seen clips and say that it's cool, others have just shrugged their shoulders. BTW, neat ad Dood!! We should find a way to start circulating that around the VG websites and forums. However, I think we may need to build up some kind of fund in order to afford this first... $$$
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startropicsmaster
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Post by startropicsmaster on Jul 21, 2006 5:42:37 GMT -5
ok, ill e-mail Mitch now, lets see if we can get the 2nd "yes" we need...
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Post by startropicsmaster on Jul 24, 2006 7:02:48 GMT -5
well, just got word back form mitch, and he says "Yes!" So we have it...now what im thinking is that we make a thread on the main site, the page where u select whick bords (general, off topic, etc) and make a "The Story of Startropics" or something like that..and put his story on and lock it, so it can't be tampered with. Just a thought. that might draw attention to the story, wrather than it being in another thread where people have to go through a bunch of stuff to get to it
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Post by Coralcola on Jul 24, 2006 12:31:53 GMT -5
So we have it...now what im thinking is that we make a thread on the main site, the page where u select whick bords (general, off topic, etc) and make a "The Story of Startropics" or something like that..and put his story on and lock it, so it can't be tampered with. That would be what, I'd think, you'd wanna do. However, one of the mods would have to be the one to create it, since they have special access to certain features. Who knows, maybe only Mitch can do it, I wouldn't know...
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Erico
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Post by Erico on Jul 24, 2006 17:18:12 GMT -5
Lord, you people are busy... And yes, yes, YES, get the word out. Me, I'd love to see a new Startropics game. After all, if they could do a remake of Rygar, who uses a 'shield discus'... Well, COME ON. Imagine all the crap Mike could pull with his arsenal! Yo-yo whip pulls! Super Nova acrobatics! Shockwave explosions EVERYWHERE! Just remember, one drop of water and he dies. WHOOPS. Work is going MARVELOUSLY well on the 'Fic since I picked it back up Friday night. Is 13 pages over a weekend progress? Oh my yes. Check the "Follow the Southern Cross Updates" thread for a snippet of my recent work. Meantime, keep it up. And if Fanfiction can cause a revolution (No pun intended on the Wii's original name), then I'm all for it. Like I said, KNOCK YOURSELVES OUT! Who knows? Maybe Nintendo will give me a call afterwards... I've got a great idea for the next generation of Starfox up in this brain of mine somewhere too. (Dark chuckle) -Erico
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startropicsmaster
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Post by startropicsmaster on Jul 25, 2006 6:31:04 GMT -5
Erico, you've once again sprung my intrest. I LOVE THE STARFOX GAMES! I'll deffinatly be reading it. Now if you make one on Runescape, I will literly die, cause you pick my 3 favorite games to write on.
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