03-16-2013, 07:12 PM
Superjustinbros, to clarify a bit more, while there is obviously the strongest link between DYKG and VGFacts, it isn't meant to be an advertising front by an means. It's more of an extension, really. DYKG has a very specific format with infrequent (compared to real-time) updates and focuses mainly on very popular and well-known games. VGFacts, on the other hand, is community driven, updated in real time as submissions are made, and accepts trivia from a much wider area. It was meant as a natural extension of DYKG as it would be easier to promote that way but both sites will definitely feed off of one another.
As far as tSR and the rest of the resource sites go, while you're right in saying that the content isn't similar over all, that's not entirely true either. A lot of the best trivia actually comes from within a game's files. Things like sprites, textures, sounds, and models are frequent trivia subjects and are regularly found by users submitting to these sites. We also link back here as a source when appropriate so the work doesn't go completely unrecognized.
I'm not sure if you're implying that we aren't researching our trivia but we definitely are. We require a source for all submissions and individually verify them before they appear on the site.
Finally, I actually own Muscle Tower so I truly appreciate your concern there. However, I chose to leave the site out of this announcement because it's in a rather sorry state at the moment. Once we finish the new version of tSR, Dazz and I will also be overhauling Muscle Tower and then it will get a bit more promotion as well. However, its content is almost completely unrelated so even then, I don't plan on pushing it as much, unless we get some good gaming podcasts up or something to that effect.
Oh, and as for linking back to the sites, all three get equal recognition at the top and in the footer. We don't really directly link to any of them in any sort of hard-coded fashion anywhere else on the site.
And don't get me wrong here. Like I said, I appreciate your concern and I'm not replying in anger, just trying to clarify.
Edit:
Yes, that link will be temporary. It will be replaced with a much less obnoxious side bar link in the future.
As for not having non-mainstream games, that's simply because we just launched. The magic of it being a community-driven site is that you can change that though so why not register and show us some of your work? I realize this is reading like an advertisement but I truly believe the best way to get the content you want online is to put it up yourself.
And yeah, we can edit the home page slider manually so updates from other sites can certainly be included.
As far as tSR and the rest of the resource sites go, while you're right in saying that the content isn't similar over all, that's not entirely true either. A lot of the best trivia actually comes from within a game's files. Things like sprites, textures, sounds, and models are frequent trivia subjects and are regularly found by users submitting to these sites. We also link back here as a source when appropriate so the work doesn't go completely unrecognized.
I'm not sure if you're implying that we aren't researching our trivia but we definitely are. We require a source for all submissions and individually verify them before they appear on the site.
Finally, I actually own Muscle Tower so I truly appreciate your concern there. However, I chose to leave the site out of this announcement because it's in a rather sorry state at the moment. Once we finish the new version of tSR, Dazz and I will also be overhauling Muscle Tower and then it will get a bit more promotion as well. However, its content is almost completely unrelated so even then, I don't plan on pushing it as much, unless we get some good gaming podcasts up or something to that effect.
Oh, and as for linking back to the sites, all three get equal recognition at the top and in the footer. We don't really directly link to any of them in any sort of hard-coded fashion anywhere else on the site.
And don't get me wrong here. Like I said, I appreciate your concern and I'm not replying in anger, just trying to clarify.
Edit:
Yes, that link will be temporary. It will be replaced with a much less obnoxious side bar link in the future.
As for not having non-mainstream games, that's simply because we just launched. The magic of it being a community-driven site is that you can change that though so why not register and show us some of your work? I realize this is reading like an advertisement but I truly believe the best way to get the content you want online is to put it up yourself.
And yeah, we can edit the home page slider manually so updates from other sites can certainly be included.