New Communal Game Design Forum Being Set up

Criminey, you again?! Well I have to hand it to you, you certainly have made the rounds, from RPG.NET to RPGHOST to here. Try to explain to people that you are leaning more toward a board game idea here for your game, and give them some of your own ideas and see what they shoot down, what they advise you on and what they like - they're very good about that here. =)

While some people will come to your site and maybe give you one or two helpful posts (or maybe stay and become involved), you need to understand that *you* have gone to a site that *they* frequent as a "regular hangout" (like here or rpg.net or wherever), and asked them to come to YOUR site to give you input.

The problem with this is that they're already AT the site they want to be at - while they're there, they enjoy helping people and giving feedback and seeing the new things people are coming up with, and its a pretty constant flow that keeps them interested and logging in to the more general site, and they'll be more likely to make a helpful post at the place they are ALREADY visitng, while they're killing time, rather than visiting your over-specific site to give only YOU advice on only YOUR project - the prospects of this are not great.

Its like showing up at a bar or club or party where people are dancing and playing pool and swimming, introducing yourself and saying "Okay, so let's go back to my place and you can help me repaint my living room! I got the car running, lets go!" Can you imagine the looks you'd get? That's the underlying mindset you're dealing with - people that are easygoing and willing to chat with you or give you the benefit of what they know and let you join in on whatever they're doing, but are not likely to just pick up and go hang out with a complete stranger.

If you seriously want more than just the few visitors (and I'm sure you'll get some, and I hope some of those stay and are interested in your project) you get from what is basically a self-promotion post that you leave on these forums, *you* will need to "hang out" and make *yourself* a regular on the "hot spot" party sites, and develop some contacts by being a good guest and doing your give-and-take and layout out your plans and ideas - not by asking them (however nicely) to follow you over to your own "place" so you can give them feedback forms to fill out - they are NOT going to go for that.

Good. Because that's exactly what you were doing and it's really annoying.

If your project need that much support (that you don't have yet) you can start smaller and see where you can go from there. That's it for my 2 cents. Good luck!