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http://www.gamestarter.io/#

by plummet • 11 years ago

19 15 11 years ago

rifung• 11 years ago

I can't comment on the usefulness of this as I don't make any games, but the site looks nice!

However, I'll have to say that personally I really dislike the name. I get that it's somewhat related Kickstarter, but when I see names which are copies of other company names, it leaves a very poor impression.

Of course this is just my opinion and maybe others will disagree with me.

greensamuelm• 11 years ago

I really have no idea what your platform does. Can you explain at all what you actually do for people?

Why is your product better than GitHub? Are your tools something that engineers can use from the command line while my artist friends can use the web?

slimsag• 11 years ago

I really have no idea what your platform does.

I'd like to just re-state that again, as I also can't find out. Maybe a kickstarter for game development?

The signup area wants you to partition yourself into one of two categories: Game Player or Creator, and their video says that they let the player community decide upon the gameplay mechanics used in their game, so perhaps it offers a voting system for selecting the game mechanics for a new game?

jay_kyburz• 11 years ago

I don't understand how these websites with mystery products make it to the front page? Who is upvoting them? Why?

M8• 11 years ago

I bet something along the lines of "Like ..., but for game developers!"

Mahn2• 11 years ago

1) Name sounds too close to Kickstarter, choose a better name to help it stand out.

2) Your landing page while nice doesn't say anything about what the platform does. I'm not going to sign up if I don't understand what is the deal about and why would I want to sign up.

Postpwn3d3• 11 years ago

In the end game, Gamestarter will be an online platform, optimized to assist game creators around the world to collaborate on game projects. While there is focus on tools to directly work together, our main goal is to unite creators with others who share their unique, game vision.

So firstly, creators, find your dream game-making team through our platform, and get to work conceptualizing games.

While creators are hard at work, game players will comment, critique and rate these games.

This process allows the community to choose their favorite games from the pool, at which point GameStarter will work with the favourited games creators to develop said game.

Mahn2• 11 years ago

That sounds nice, but you need to make a stronger case about it in the site if you want to get people interested. Think of what features would make people excited about your platform and talk about those, don't just say "My platform is about this" but "My platform is about this and you will like it because this this and that." and go into great length on the second part of that sentence.

Postpwn3d3• 11 years ago

For those asking more about GameStarter's process. In the end game, Gamestarter will be an online platform, optimized to assist game creators around the world to collaborate on game projects. While there is focus on tools to directly work together, our main goal is to unite creators with others who share their unique, game vision.

So firstly, creators, find your dream game-making team through our platform, and get to work conceptualizing games.

While creators are hard at work, game players will comment, critique and rate these games.

This process allows the community to choose their favorite games from the pool, at which point GameStarter will work with the favourited games creators to develop said game.

Mithaldu3• 11 years ago

That doesn't sound like crowd-sourcing at all, that sounds like an endless hackathon combined with funnel to an incubator for game projects. Plus, the whole "give no information whatsoever, but make sure to ask for their email address, along with an appeal based on emotion and no quality" thing you got going on your website is skeevy as hell.

Postpwn3d3• 11 years ago

Understand that our platform is not yet ready. You're signing up through our splash page to be a part of GameStarter when we go live. You are not looking at a ready platform. I can assure, once it's ready, GameStarter will have everything you need to efficiently collaborate, not a 'hackathon' as you said.

I fail to see how gathering creators and players from the crowd, to collaborate together to validate and create games, is not crowdsourcing. Check crowdsourcing on Google.

Lancey• 11 years ago

I have no idea what this site does, but it sounds like it lets game players pitch ideas to game developers. Look at the ideas section of Steam Greenlight and you'll understand immediately why this is a bad idea.

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