Community Census: Whatcha Want?
nikasaur
Telltale Alumni
We've been trying out a few new activities here like Telltale Tuesdays and the Yet To Be Named Art Contest, and I wanted to know your thoughts. What do you like? What doesn't do it for you? Any opinions, improvements, or other community-related ideas that you'd like to see from here? What are some things about other communities that really rock you?
Some things we've been toying with is extending the submission period for the art contest to get more participation, and maybe having a different sort of gift than a free episode for Tuesdays winners.
Critiques great and small, ideas aplenty, sock it to me.
Some things we've been toying with is extending the submission period for the art contest to get more participation, and maybe having a different sort of gift than a free episode for Tuesdays winners.
Critiques great and small, ideas aplenty, sock it to me.
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I think they're should be some more comunity contests and such like telltale tuesdays.
One idea which was thrown around a few times in the past was a podcast, though of course a regular podcast may be too much work, an infrequent one would be cool, failing this video features would be pretty cool too.
Webcasts are an idea, and we've toyed with doing videos in the same vein, but it's very time consuming. I do like that these ideas were so popular!
Maybe something like a Fanart of the Month or something too?
The last Thumbs was 50% Telltale anyway. Just get rid of Boost and Hot Scoops, and you're done!
No.
That...would make sense
I'm retreating back to my skulking hole if you need me folks
People like short, funny stuff. Telltale Tuesdays was and is a brilliant idea! Also, everybody seemed to enjoy the "share an idea and we might add it in the game"-thing. I suppose it's not difficult for you guys to add something like that with each episode for the new Sam n Max Season. Like you did with "Books from the Voodoo Lady's Bookcase". That was awesome!
Hmmm... during the time spent between games, we could always have a thematic art contest or video contests, musical contests etc. A free weekly episode for Telltale Tuesdays is good! Personally I don't think you should add more to that, but if you think it is necesary, you can always give the classical T-Shirt. "Do funny stuff, win a T-Shirt with our Logo!".
Other than that... between games you are already doing plenty of stuff. For the new Sam n max Season, you could do something really nice... and unique. Cameos. Everybody loves cameos. Voice cameos are the easiest. Just make a contest and the winner gets to record a line that can be heard through a radio in the game. The actual radio could be a cover for the low-microphone quality. Who wouldn't like that?
Cameos can also represent drawings made by the winner that can appear in the game. We can go in various directions from here.
If I can think of better ideas, I'll post here later. Even if they sound riddiculous, good things can be "extracted" out of crazy stuff
EDIT: I have a question...kind of silly, but still buzzing around my head: If someone would like to seriously propose/present a unique IP in the form of a game to Telltale, who should he talk to? By "seriously" I mean an entire project, with finished script and suggestions for voice actors, music composers and design leaders.
I'm putting my money on Grossman, he's short but I bet he fights dirty
Please let there be a way, that would be pretty cool to have an IP from a Telltale fan would be awesome
As far as I know, we are not legally allowed to hear these. I would highly suggest you find a way to make your own company to do it! Start small and such, but it's obvious you're a really creative and driven person.
2)Record.
3)Post on website.
4)????
5)PROFIT!!!
Edit: For the record, I was joking about getting rid of Remo. But don't tell Famous that.
Aw, come on, what better things do you have to do, really?
I second that motion
And nope; no ideas here
Okay, I'm on it! Thanks
Any chance of some future contests having the prize be a $5 voucher for the store? Then I could get some merch like the Monkey Island badges and just pay the difference/shipping costs if I wanted to
I'm with you. This sounds awesome and I wish I had an opinion on it, but I usually come straight to the forums and rarely think to look at the blogs. Hence why I didn't find out about Majus and Suro until this week.
I do like the worst fanart contest idea, but there would absolutely have to be some qualifiers on it. It'd have to be judged by merit of the idea, and it'd have to be bad while still being identifiable. If the guidelines were worked out properly, it could be awesome.
Or...you could do something similar to the game we were playing in the Crap Fan Art Thread: who can come up with the best story for what they think is happening in the crappy drawing.
Which then gives me the idea of maybe having the occasional short story contest?
Not that I'd have great ideas to contribute, though.
A while back, someone commented that next time we see Stan he might be richer thanks to all the merch we'll have bought. I'de like something like that. that is, I don't mean this specific idea, but the fact that something we do have an influence on the game, in this case Stan doing good or bad depending on how well the merchandise sold.
But it would have to be small things of course. Just references to things that have happened in real life with the community, or on the forums or something, as though they had happened in the game's universe.
I also like the idea of some people influencing the game voluntarily (the difference with the previous one is that in the previous idea you'd refer to stuff that wasn't necessarily meant by the fans to appear in the games, and in this one you'd have some kind of context and all the entries would be made with that in mind.)
... I guess as far as I know, you're already doing all that to some extent. Not being very helpful am I? :P
Oh, and I like the postcast/chat/livefeed idea. I guess chat would be the least constraining for you guys.
He does. The rules clearly state, "no hitting the face", Dave.
There really area a lot of opportunities for the fans to become a part of the community here and interact with the crew at TTG. I mean, the only thing you could do is get more people to come here (the website) and join the forums.
I already participate in Telltale Tuesdays, I play Team Fortress 2 after work, plus the staff posts quite frequently in these forums. It seems like there are always prizes being given out and sweet deals on merchandise, the blog has a lot of great content to offer, and I haven't even mentioned the awesome GAMES you guys make. Trust me, you're doing a great job.
Unfortunately, I don't participate in the art contest because I don't have the right stuff to compete against the talent here. But I do think the chat or live feed sounds fun, especially if it's similar to the Q&A we had with Dominic Armato a while back.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TTGTF2
Totally called it, now I can't get the image of him charging towards someone with a steel chair out of my mind
That and the latest update which made me excite something diabolical
Now seriously: No idea. I like lurking in the forums and read community based silliness, so, whathever it's make us throw silly stuff at random whould be awesome. Even the webcast, but only if it's live, because half of the fun is read the chat and us complaining about you don't read the questions (Still remember Majus had a question, which you never answered)
Haha, remember the one with the sea monkey? Aaah, good times, good times...