Top Browser games? Hosting?

[hallsofvallhalla]

What if we make a top browser based game section here on the site. Indie-resources own? We get tons of traffic and my video views are over 25,000+. Shouldn't be too hard to get some games to sign up.
I am pretty sure there are scripts out there for it. You know the sites where you vote for best game and stuff.

Also was thinking about me buying a unlimited host from godaddy, has lots of features, crons, ect.. and then letting others have a subdomain from it for real cheap. I have to check on their license though. But like I could charge $2 or $3 a month for hosting your game. Just enough to pay for the main hosting price.

This way it is much cheaper for a unlimited non free hosting service.

[Genaga]

It would be better to buy a reseller and a topsites would be great really. Might encourage more games to be made.

[Noctrine]

If those games get popular, go-daddy will more than likely terminate you. Look in the TOS for abnormal system usage or the like. You are better off getting a dedicated server with something like WHM so you can assign people little cpanels.

Had actually been thinking of running something like that myself at one point, but the overhead is going to be a pain in the ass.


EDIT: If you do go through with it, I know a guy who may be more than happy to help you. I know he hosts the sprite resource and has the setup that would be necessary for something like this.

[hallsofvallhalla]

sounds kewl...

I do have one person who was thinking of setting this up for us but he is behind on some of his own stuff so I am not sure when he can do it.

[Callan S.]

I think if you have a top list, it should have near the top some random game which is not from the top of the list. Like you might have the top three games, then a space to show a random game.

Why? Because top lists make sure the top games remain top, suck in the most players and...basically create a cul de sac that excludes new games.

A top list is useful in that it could draw in attention and then that attention could partly be directed to new up and coming games who wouldn't get as much attention otherwise.

But a vanilla, default top list by itself I think is actually detrimental to indie development. It just encourages the big guys to get bigger - no encouragement for the guys just entering at the fringe.

[Jackolantern]

You also have to watch out for how voting works. Many games in top game lists reward their players for voting every day. I played some MUDs that were scripted to give you +xp for an hour or extra gold after you voted. At that point, it really isn't fair, because then it is just an issue of who's game design can withstand giving the biggest bonuses without breaking.

[hallsofvallhalla]

definitely agree with those points. I am still wanting to do this list just so danged busy. Wandering if we should build it ourselves or modify an existing script.

Feel free to post some links for scripts

[Noctrine]

Build it yourself!

[Baseball435]

On the games if they are giving free gold or exp for voting just put on the game list "if we ind out you are bribing people to vote we will take you off the list!" that will stop them

and if you think about it, making a voting and game system where people can post them games it would be like a mini forum. Like a person creates a new topic/game post, writes down the information and posts it. Then you would just have to put like the stuff in mysql andW for the vote try it with mysql and have it so that when a person presses vote the vote counts and it adds one to the script and then echo's that out. So in mysql make it enum and for the value make it 0 and 1 (I think you put it "0","1" or something). Then 0 would equal not voting and 1 would equal did equal (0=false and 1=true) the go to the thing next to the value, make it as defined, and the under it put 0. Then in the php file just make it so that when they click "vote", vote=1. Something like that. That's how you make email activation for like a member thing