We just launched a new site, called
Play This Thing. It'll feature a game a day--free games, interactive fiction, mods, and weird stuff like alternative reality and "big urban" games, as well, of course, as independent games.
When we launched the Manifesto site, we expected it to be a content-and-community site as well as an online retailer. That hasn't turned out as well as we had hoped; "The Word," our pages with reviews and articles about games, never got a lot of traffic--and in any event, reviews there sat a little uneasily on a site that was trying to sell you stuff. It was also not updated frequently enough to draw much repeat traffic--and perhaps was too much inspired by print magazine reviews. Online, where a demo download is a click away, short squibs are perhaps more useful than lengthy reviews--quick reading, and enough to give you a sense of whether it's worth your time to check the game out.
Also, I wanted to celebrate the full range of creativity in games outside the mainstream, including games that we ourselves don't necessarily sell--free games, games from people who haven't signed up to sell here, and so on. Play This Thing lets us do that, without confusing the Manifesto Games mission unduly. Of the five games on the front page at launch, for instance, only two are ones we sell.
When Play This Thing features a game that Manifesto sells, we'll link back to the Manifesto site for purchase, of course--but we'll be covering a lot of games we don't sell, too. In essence, we're divvying up responsibilities: Manifesto Games becomes an ecommerce site, while Play This Thing takes care of content and community.
Give it a look...
posted by Greg at 10:43 AM
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I'll check it out. I hope it has big screenshots. I'll never understand why so many game review sites won't put three or four BIG screenshots of the games they spend ten paragraphs talking about.
Glorious! As heavy on the gamewise weirdness as you dare, please, in the name of community spirit - or are we going to have to use the on-site blogging ourselves to discuss the weirdness out there?
Well, or if there's gaming weirdness you want to write up, let me know...
/me registers concern about your "That hasn't turned out as well as we'd hoped" comment... how's the business these days? You making money?
jwb
I love the new site! It's a celebration of games that you won't find in EGM.
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