04-08-2016, 01:36 PM
So then what's your elevator pitch for Galac-Tac?
Even when Jon Capps ran the game, back in the early 1980s, it never really clicked with the crowd (back then, of course, there *was* a crowd), and I'm curious why you've resurrected this game, along with such other not-so-well-known properties as Wasteland and Jim Graham's old Manifest Destiny (few turns of which ever ran, unless I misremember)? Do you think there's a market for these games today?
My advice - for whatever that's worth - is never to admit on a public forum that players are "scarce" for your game, since nothing will keep away potential new players quite like the lack of existing players! By the way, some of the most popular features in my old magazines were "diaries": a series of articles by players in a game about what it was like to play the game, turn by turn. Why not organize a free game of Galac-Tac, for play-by-mail.net players only, on condition that they submit short narratives to you each turn, which you can then assemble into a diary and post installments here (not in the PDF fanzine, but here in the forum, where they might be noticed). Any other moderator who visits this forum looking for players might consider doing likewise. It could give a lot of us reason to visit more regularly.
Even when Jon Capps ran the game, back in the early 1980s, it never really clicked with the crowd (back then, of course, there *was* a crowd), and I'm curious why you've resurrected this game, along with such other not-so-well-known properties as Wasteland and Jim Graham's old Manifest Destiny (few turns of which ever ran, unless I misremember)? Do you think there's a market for these games today?
My advice - for whatever that's worth - is never to admit on a public forum that players are "scarce" for your game, since nothing will keep away potential new players quite like the lack of existing players! By the way, some of the most popular features in my old magazines were "diaries": a series of articles by players in a game about what it was like to play the game, turn by turn. Why not organize a free game of Galac-Tac, for play-by-mail.net players only, on condition that they submit short narratives to you each turn, which you can then assemble into a diary and post installments here (not in the PDF fanzine, but here in the forum, where they might be noticed). Any other moderator who visits this forum looking for players might consider doing likewise. It could give a lot of us reason to visit more regularly.