Sundiata 3.236 Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 0 A.D. Social Media Accounts (We need you!) I’ve been given the lovely honor to curate 0AD’s social media accounts. In this capacity, I would love to invite every forum member here at the Wildfire Games Forums to take a look at our current accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon. As you may know, 0 A.D. is completely free, libre, open source and volunteer based. No wages are paid in the development of this game and there is no budget for marketing. Exposure for this project is made up almost entirely of word-of-mouth advertising. We, the fans, are the developers of this game, both here on the forum, as well as on other platforms like trac, phabricator, GitHub and IRC. Together, we are all contributing towards the development of this game, however large or small those contributions may be. Every like, comment and share contributes towards the future of this game that we have all grown to love. The more people know about this game, the higher the odds that we will attract more developers in various fields from programming to art and translations. So, if you haven’t given these pages a visit yet, please take a look. And maybe give us a like https://facebook.com/play0ad/ https://twitter.com/play0ad https://instagram.com/play0ad.official/ https://mastodon.social/@play0ad (open source social media) Other media accounts worth checking out are: The Spanish language 0 A.D. Facebook page: https://facebook.com/0adfanslatino/ (managed by Lion.Kanzen) Our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/play0ad (release trailers and original 0 A.D. music tracks) Our Bandcamp site: https://play0ad.bandcamp.com (0 A.D. soundtrack) 0 A.D. on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/0ad/ Another reason I open this topic, is to receive community suggestions, feedback and comments about our accounts. And remember, there is also a lovely thread called “Your screenshots”. Don’t be shy to post some nice shots there. The ones that are exceptionally pleasing to the eye might receive a feature on our platforms. Our current followers, January 11, 2020: Instagram: 3 Mastodon: 22 Twitter: 3537 Facebook: 11,834 As Stan` the Man aptly pointed out to me recently: "" Some free promotional art (Click the image, then click it again to open the original sized file in a new window): Hero Portrait by JustinOperable, backdrop by LordGood. Ashoka the Great: Hero Portrait by JustinOperable, backdrop by LordGood. Hannibal: Hero Portraits by Victor Rossi, backdrop by LordGood. Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Queen Amanirenas: Remember, 0 A.D. and the Pyrogenesis game engine aren't just free. They are libre software: Quote The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2). The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. 8 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted January 13, 2020 Report Share Posted January 13, 2020 what about Discord and Reddit? and others YT channels. I public some videos and for Unknown reason some fans starting to write me, i can figure this happen with our Officials Youtubers like @ValihrAnt or Tom 0 AD ..etc can be nice share the best videos. specially great matches or new content. even Lorgood videos. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan` 7.196 Posted January 13, 2020 Report Share Posted January 13, 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/0ad/ 4 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said: and others YT channels. I public some videos and for Unknown reason some fans starting to write me, i can figure this happen with our Officials Youtubers like @ValihrAnt or Tom 0 AD ..etc can be nice share the best videos. specially great matches or new content. even Lorgood videos. I'm open to suggestions, but we don't usually have much videos to post. And taking other people's videos sounds like a bad habit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted January 13, 2020 Report Share Posted January 13, 2020 Lorgood videos are a kind of "making of 0 A.D" or testing 0 A.D Devs new features. I share with my community. this. I share mods development and this was useful. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sundiata 3.236 Posted January 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 On 1/12/2020 at 6:46 PM, Sundiata said: Our current followers, January 11, 2020: Instagram: 3 Mastodon: 22 Twitter: 3537 Facebook: 11,834 Our current followers, January 14, 2020: Instagram: 97 Mastodon: 99 Twitter: 3580 Facebook: 11,840 That's slightly better, and it's nice to see the appreciation for Mastodon, an open source alternative to the big social media sites. But we can still do a lot better than that. Come on my fellow forumites, let's push those numbers! 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sundiata 3.236 Posted January 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 @Lion.Kanzen, I'd love to share more videos, but Ideally they should have the highest graphics settings enabled, which isn't often the case. (not really the fault of the video-makers, because they have to make a choice between fps and graphics settings which means graphic settings usually loose out. Ideally we need more optimizations to the game so that average machines can play with high graphics settings as well) Are the reddit and discord channels official? because I assumed they were self regulated kind of things. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan` 7.196 Posted January 14, 2020 Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 11 minutes ago, Sundiata said: I love it 4 minutes ago, Sundiata said: Are the reddit and discord channels official? because I assumed they were self regulated kind of things. Reddit not really but we can ask them. For discord not at all. We had one attempt at an official one but it wasn't successful because of privacy constraints. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sundiata 3.236 Posted January 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2020 On 1/13/2020 at 7:09 PM, Lion.Kanzen said: Reddit? Also added reddit link to the first post. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AeternaTristitia 25 Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 I check out /r/0ad from time to time, but It would be way better to have an official discord channel just like Age of Empires 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Angen 498 Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 It was refused to have official discord channel because problems with discord`s privacy policy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 On 2/2/2020 at 1:26 PM, Angen said: It was refused to have official discord channel because problems with discord`s privacy policy. which one? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Angen 498 Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 I dont know to tell more, to be exact it was for privacy concerns. @Itmswould be maybe able to tell more but I think it was around time gdpr came out. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 what about make something like this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan` 7.196 Posted June 4, 2020 Report Share Posted June 4, 2020 52 minutes ago, blackiyto said: what about Discord and Reddit? and others YT channels. https://www.reddit.com/r/0ad/ ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted March 7 Report Share Posted March 7 (edited) What about Odysee/Lbry? I like all platforms that are alternates to Big Tech. Edited March 8 by Lion.Kanzen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
azayrahmad 178 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 I noticed that in YouTube, 0 A.D is not yet listed as a game, so it can't be shown in game category like this: Anyone knows how to add 0 A.D. to YouTube listing? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 looking for more social networks I found Element that is like a discord clone. It does indeed have a room of 0 AD https://matrix.to/#/!pJKqVICIcXcKKDJyBv:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=riot.firechicken.net&via=asra.gr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smiley 80 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 If I recall correctly, it wasn't discord being evil that derailed the whole thing. I assumed the concern was that IRC users don't get to agree to the evil policy in the first place. If the matrix bridge didn't exist, there is nothing against discord. All participants would have agreed to terms. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lion.Kanzen 4.974 Posted March 18 Report Share Posted March 18 On 09/03/2021 at 7:52 AM, smiley said: If I recall correctly, it wasn't discord being evil that derailed the whole thing. I assumed the concern was that IRC users don't get to agree to the evil policy in the first place. If the matrix bridge didn't exist, there is nothing against discord. All participants would have agreed to terms. All big tech are very evil. In the end they are all corporations that join other corporations and become bigger than even the countries themselves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mysticjim 249 Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 On 09/03/2021 at 12:56 AM, azayrahmad said: I noticed that in YouTube, 0 A.D is not yet listed as a game, so it can't be shown in game category like this: Anyone knows how to add 0 A.D. to YouTube listing? It's wierd, mate, 0AD used to be there, it vanished a few weeks back and I have no idea why! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wowgetoffyourcellphone 6.894 Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 4 hours ago, mysticjim said: It's wierd, mate, 0AD used to be there, it vanished a few weeks back and I have no idea why! Agreed, 0 A.D. used to have it's own Youtube category page and everything. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
maroder 92 Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 On 09/03/2021 at 1:56 AM, azayrahmad said: Anyone knows how to add 0 A.D. to YouTube listing? This is the only answer I could findhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/42610756/register-new-game-for-youtube-gaming So maybe a problem with the wiki page, or the play0ad homepage has metadata in the wrong format. Or google just changed their algorithm. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yekaterina 95 Posted March 23 Report Share Posted March 23 Shall we make posters of 0AD and post them on Instagram and other social media platforms? This should gain us some recognition and attract more players? I can start spamming Instagram with 0AD content and I will tell my friends to do the same as well. I also think it would be a good idea to make a 0AD group chat on Instagram and Discord (or snapchat etc) for players who use them? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarcusAureliu#s 64 Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 There are several 0 AD groups already on discord. https://discord.gg/ztUnc2dg https://discord.gg/xgpMArvu https://discord.gg/jywnFzFA And several others Those are all private though, it would be good to have attention not divided amongst all of them and have something like a "offical 0 AD discord group" by wildfire games, which is linked of Wildfiregames social media, website etc. new people wont usually search whole forum to find some links. There sharepics/posters announcements text, post etc could be posted by ppl with such skills and then added to other platforms by private people. You could post news about tournaments hosted, games dev news, new alphas, screenshots, etc. which is partially happening already on 0 AD Fb, but all could use content and spread elswhere. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yekaterina 95 Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 I have managed to join all 3 discord chats. There are loads of contents and channels... not sure what the spam posting section is for lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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