DW fundraising, LJ + games?
Friday, March 26th, 2010 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmian1. Dreamwidth is seeking to raise at least $50,000 to replenish reserves. They're looking from some ideas; I didn't really have any that were original (merch, have some kind of paid account sale). Anyway, if you have any good ones that don't involve more features, they'd be interested in hearing from you.
2. http://www.livejournal.com/games/ Looks like LJ has some sort of partnership up. No idea on what the final form is going to take (it hasn't been announced yet IIRC), but so far it appears that, like the classifieds, there isn't much integration of these games into LJ.
This does seem to be somewhat of a missed opportunity, because LJ is in a way a social network, and the integration of social networks and gaming has proved quite lucrative for some parties (although not always ethical). However, without any integration, either of the social graph (i.e., invite your friends, be notified if your friends join), or of actual in-site gaming (gaming is integrated into the site/notifications system), or of payment (using the in-development LJ Wallet or something? I know Facebook is working on some credits system, which people will probably be able to use in their game purchases), I don't think there's any real advantage for either party that wouldn't be gotten from simple banner ads or whatever.
So what games would work well with LJ/DW style sites? I recall a long time ago on LJ people were having some kind of card battle style game where you could 'fight' other random LJers and advance in the rankings. Maybe people would be interested in that kind of simple game, especially if it were integrated into postings etc, but I'm not sure if something THAT elementary would be particularly lucrative.
Back in the day, I also had a blog pet that 'fed' on my RSS feed and would then learn how to 'talk' based on what you posted about; it also could make friends with people you had friended (on the blog pet site), so that you would see your pet hang out with their pets. However, because it was flash/javascript, we could never put these on our sidebars.
And there are those 'dragon egg' things, which I found sort of annoying, because people would just randomly plop them there, so I blocked them with Adblock. However, they achieved some popularity on LJ.
(Which illustrates one of the problems with these games on social networks: to people who are not involved in the game, these gaming elements showing up in their stream are almost like spam, and totally worthless.)
2. http://www.livejournal.com/games/ Looks like LJ has some sort of partnership up. No idea on what the final form is going to take (it hasn't been announced yet IIRC), but so far it appears that, like the classifieds, there isn't much integration of these games into LJ.
This does seem to be somewhat of a missed opportunity, because LJ is in a way a social network, and the integration of social networks and gaming has proved quite lucrative for some parties (although not always ethical). However, without any integration, either of the social graph (i.e., invite your friends, be notified if your friends join), or of actual in-site gaming (gaming is integrated into the site/notifications system), or of payment (using the in-development LJ Wallet or something? I know Facebook is working on some credits system, which people will probably be able to use in their game purchases), I don't think there's any real advantage for either party that wouldn't be gotten from simple banner ads or whatever.
So what games would work well with LJ/DW style sites? I recall a long time ago on LJ people were having some kind of card battle style game where you could 'fight' other random LJers and advance in the rankings. Maybe people would be interested in that kind of simple game, especially if it were integrated into postings etc, but I'm not sure if something THAT elementary would be particularly lucrative.
Back in the day, I also had a blog pet that 'fed' on my RSS feed and would then learn how to 'talk' based on what you posted about; it also could make friends with people you had friended (on the blog pet site), so that you would see your pet hang out with their pets. However, because it was flash/javascript, we could never put these on our sidebars.
And there are those 'dragon egg' things, which I found sort of annoying, because people would just randomly plop them there, so I blocked them with Adblock. However, they achieved some popularity on LJ.
(Which illustrates one of the problems with these games on social networks: to people who are not involved in the game, these gaming elements showing up in their stream are almost like spam, and totally worthless.)
