cross-promotion idea for small games

[Colin Fredericks]

Hi there everyone.

I work with (or, more accurately, I am) Valent Games, and I'm going to be at ConBust at Smith College and OurCon at UMass Amherst next month. I'm going to be distributing a CD there, either for free or for a very minimal cost ($1 to cover cost of CD, label, and case).

I was wondering if there was anyone out there with a free RPG who would like me to put their game onto the CD. 700 megs is a lot of space; I have all sorts of room free. The offer goes for artists too - if you would like some JPEGs of your work included as examples on the CD, just let me know.

Why am I doing this? Because I feel really dumb giving out a CD with 10 megs of (admittedly nifty) stuff on it and 690 megs of empty space. I'm including three versions of Linux, and Acrobat Reader for four different operating systems, and it still only brings me up to 160 megs. I'd love to have some more substantial stuff on the disk, and I figured some people might want to have a little more exposure for their game.

Give me an e-mail if you're interested, or just post here.

--Colin Fredericks
http://www.valentgames.com
fredericks@valentgames.com

[ThreeGee]

Hey Colin,

I am glad you are coming out to our cons. It sounds like the indie games market will be well represented this year.

A CD really is a lot of space for text. How you managed to find three versions of Linux that together take less than a quarter of a CD is beyond me, though (:P). It would be really cool to have an extensive collection of games on one disc, even if it does not come close to filling the disc. I think a lot of people are minimally aware people like us exist, so having several games in one easily accessible location would probably be like mana from heaven.

Do you have a deadline? I can supply you with a couple games if I can take the time to pretty them up. I was planning to give away copies at the cons, anyway.

Later,
Grant

[Colin Fredericks]

Hi, Grant.

The deadline would be about March 30th, I suppose. ConBust is on April 4th and 5th, and OurCon is the following weekend, and I want to make sure I have time to make all the CDs and print the labels (and a little extra time in case something goes wrong).

As for the versions of Linux, it's two mini versions of Debian (i386 and PowerPC) and one version of Slackware (i386, zipslack) :)

-Colin

[Colin Fredericks]

Hi everyone. In case you're still interested, the deadline to get things onto this CD is tomorrow.

I've had a lot of replies; thank you to everyone who's given me permission to include their game. So far I have games, demos, or just random stuff from Active Exploits, CORPS, Diversions, Dystopia, Fudge, LegendsWalk, Philip Reed, Powergame, Reve, Riddle of Steel, Revisiting the Three Kingdoms, Runebearer, Slayer, Spectre Press, StarCluster, Tales of Wyn D'mere, and WHAT. And of course my own stuff, Valence and Console. 120 MB of free games... not bad at all. :)

--Colin
http://www.valentgames.com

[brainwipe]

This is a really great idea. If I had Icar in a decent enough state, I would add it to the list.
Nice one.