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| 1) Message boards : Promotion : Promotional video
Message 92247 Posted 21 Jul 2019 by zgraja |
Revind video to 4:05 and you will know. I have other video connected with BOINC: https://youtu.be/Ep20GXkiZJc. It is less advanced technically but more informative. Not a huge succes either :). |
| 2) Message boards : Promotion : Promotional video
Message 92245 Posted 20 Jul 2019 by zgraja |
I've created promotional video and published it on YouTube on my channel, but with 6 views (which half of them are mine and my family) it's hard to call it a "Marketing succes". Feel free to use this video in your YT channel or any other media (commercial and non commercial channels allowed). Link to video on YT: https://youtu.be/T2wx_fEEJJ0. Link to mp4 file on my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1budns69gM3EXCKTmGATLDkGJls-yvuyA/view?usp=sharing. |
| 3) Message boards : Promotion : OGame game with BOINC power plant energy resource
Message 41756 Posted 23 Dec 2011 by zgraja |
Daniel, I like this new approach. I've started working on this idea in similar way some time ago. It should be easier to do. But finally I've decided to go harder way. I took sources of OGame (version XNova), and added dark energy resource (I was thinking about dark matter too :) ). The plan is to add to this game new elements, which user can buy for this new resource, among others: - "dark energy field" - new planet shield - some kind of canon (I'm planning to give it an ability to take preemptive strike, before each battle) - "doom machine" - very powerful weapon, which could destroy fleet, planet's defence and even buildings on the planets. Bigger problem is how to take advantage from Boinc achievements in such a game. My idea is to create new Boinc project, say Boincgames. This project will serve as a place in which users could register games they participate in (pairs of data: web address of the game and user's security password - different from the password used to create account in Boincgames project). After registration in the OGame game, users will provide additionally their Boincgames project name (same as provided during registration in Boincgames project) and game security password (provided for that game in pair with web address, not a password for Boincgames project account). Game will connect to Boincgames project to acquire user's cross-project Id. Once a day, game will connect to Boinc stats service to acquire user stats. Efficiency of dark energy resource production will be based on the user stats. I'll give possibility to choose which projects should be taken into account during stats query: all, or a few of them, chosen by game's admin, maybe with different points ratio (like resource share in boinc projects). If you have better idea, let me know. I hope that in the near future I'll start my web page with that project and test version of the game (for the start in polish language only). |
| 4) Message boards : Promotion : OGame game with BOINC power plant energy resource
Message 38710 Posted 29 Jun 2011 by zgraja |
I'm not talking about advertisements of some boring things/products/services for dirty ;) money. I'm talking about the method of exchanging users/participants. It happening already now between different BOINC projects. Projects with higher hardware requirements are recommending other projects for free. Tab with "Recommended games" would direct to games (some of them are free of charge, you can pay for extra things if you want) where BOINC users can have fun using their BOINC stats to take advantage over their game opponents. Games using BOINC stats will bring new BOINC participants. Base of the MMO players is huge, we shouldn't ignore that. I'm using BOINC manager since the very beginning (even before it, I was participating in SETI@home project) and no encouragement is needed for me other than that this is the right thing to do, to make our world better. Others may need another stimulus to join to BOINC users society (game for instance). Maybe Mr David Anderson will accept such free of charge users exchange. Especially if advertisements will be placed on separate tab. If you click it - you will see it, if not - no advertisement will harm your tired eyes... |
| 5) Message boards : Promotion : OGame game with BOINC power plant energy resource
Message 38699 Posted 28 Jun 2011 by zgraja |
Another idea: make agreement with MMO games producers (like "Erepublik"). In exchange for advertisements in BOINC manager (on separate tab with "Recommended" games") let BOINC users get some advantages in that games (for instance some amount of free "gold" in Erepublik game every day proportionally to current BOINC stats). This will bring new users to MMO games producers and a lot of new participants in BOINC projects. What do you think about it? |
| 6) Message boards : Promotion : OGame game with BOINC power plant energy resource
Message 38697 Posted 28 Jun 2011 by zgraja |
OGame is the legendary game in the space, which can be played via Internet. It uses almost no computer power of the players computers. Let every Boinc project start a variation of OGame server with resource named "BOINC power plant". Let efficiency of this resource depends (among other parameters such as power plant level) on current BOINC projects statistics. New field called "OGame statistics password" should exists in the configuration of the BOINC project. Let user be able to activate "BOINC power plant power modules" by registering in the OGame configuration file every project he is participating (entering username and new "OGame statistics password"). Every 24 hours OGame servers schould check current user statistics and adjust power plants efficiency accordingly to the results. Each BOINC project OGame server may have his own scale of efficiency points for every BOINC project (for instance to favour a little bit points descendent from their own project). I think this should bring many new participants, especially kids. Sorry for my bad english... |
| 7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : simple wish for GPU WU's
Message 38680 Posted 26 Jun 2011 by zgraja |
I've noticed, that some GPU tasks makes computer very sluggish (for instance PrimeGrid WU's), and some not (Collatz Conjecture WU's). If in the Boinc Manager was an option (check box) "Allow exceptions" (under option "Use GPU while computer is in use"), active only when check box "Use GPU while computer is in use" was unchecked, and a list with exceptions, when we could select GPU projects (exceptions) to run even when computer is in use, then we can put projects with small impact on computer performance onto this list. During normal using of the computer, only tasks from projects on that list would be active. Tasks from projects not included in the list would be active only in the computer idle time. That solution could be a temporary remedy to the lack of precise GPU usage control. |
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