ROYGBIV New Online Strategy Board Game

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#1

I am releasing a beta version of my new game ROYGBIV at www.playroygbiv.com. It is a two player online strategic board game. The standard version will be available to anyone for free. There will eventually be a members sections where members can play any of the 50+ variations we are programming. There also is a home board version available.

Feel free to give it a try. There is a solitaire version available to learn or play simply by going into the game lobby and typing solitaire in the bottom command line area. If you have a friend, feel free to try the head to head version by using seek and setting game parameters.

Look forward to seeing your comments and suggestions.

Joe Devlin
www.playroygbiv.com
Black Ops Marketing LLC

#2

Hmm… last time I checked people don’t like registering. Sorry but it’s a significant deterance factor. Especially since you’re asking for emails, first and last name, city, and country as required fields. I’d highly recommend you put in a “guest” login at least. Then if someone is good at the game and likes it they can register for an actual account, and later maybe a member.

I might try it later though.

#3

An excellent suggestion. The reason i am asking people to register is two fold:
1.Eventually there is going to be a free and members area.
2.The stats portion of the site will sort ratings by registration info such as age, locale etc…

Perhaps i can have people login in as GuestXXX where XXX is a number given out by the server to keep two guests from having the same screen name?

Of course, I just may have bitten off more than I can chew for a first game. ROYGBIV has ALOT of variations and a user interface with some extra features normally not found in online games but none of it matters if they dont sign up!. Have had about 80 people sign up in 4 days since the server was reset, but you may be right as the visitor/register ratio is about 5:1.

Thanks for taking the time to help me. Any other suggestions and/or comments from fellow java gamers would be appreciated.