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I am looking for some advice here: first, has anyone tried this on their site, and does it actually draw in people, in your opinion?
This man named chess, checkers, backgammon, texas hold 'em, blackjack, and poker as games to look into. Where do I find these games? Scripts? If you have ever played them , would you say they were actually engaging, enough to keep you coming back?
Thank you for your input!
These are all different from what you're talking about, as these games have all been regular threads started by regular posters, not something extra added to the forum. I suppose it would depend a lot on the make-up of your community. Do you know if anyone other than this one member would be interested? With only 20 members (at this point), I'd think the make-up of the community would also impact not only whether you add games, but which games you'd add. The audience for chess is probably going to be somewhat different from the audience for poker. And with so few members, starting too many games at once could dilute the community effect.
I agree that with only 20 members (26 now) using the forum, word games might be best saved till later on, so I found links to 8 games that you can play against the computer (so shy members can practice if they need to till they feel confident enough to join other members) and that you also can play with 2 to 6 humans.
I know that "poker" is a buzz-word right now but all of the gambling games take you two or more links away from my site, so I passed on them. I have added 2 checkers, 1 chess, two miscellaneous games, Chinese checkers, an Italian card game, and a silly little nothing of a game that lasts on average less than 30 seconds and much to my amazement is a HUGE hit, getting people posting their scores and teasing each other!
I do want a word game, though, and I'm excited about an idea I had to schedule a Scrabble game in the chat room every week sometime in the near future; I figure that everyone loves Scrabble, they can just settle into the chat room with their game boards in front of them, I'll post the rules and some word lists, and it will help crystalize the community spirit as people tussle over obscure words and help each other along .....it will give them an excuse to approach new members and ask them to join in :-)
Thanks again for the advice, friends!
I lock the threads when they reach 500 posts - and someone usually starts a new game. Today I just started one that so far is doing well - name a song title, tell everyone who sings it and tell us a snippet about you and that song (first song you slow danced to.. someone has dedicated the song to you.. etc etc...) The next person then finds another song title that contains ONE word in common with the most recently posted song.. and we keep going from there. It's a fun way for members to interact, and we learn a bit more about each other too.
Another one was the 'seven word story' ... Someone started off a story with just 7 words. Each following poster added 7 more words, sometimes completing a sentence, sometimes leaving it hanging midsentence for the next person to add to. It got silly very quickly - and people started incorporating members of the site into the storyline. After every 50 or so posts, I condensed it all into paragraphs to make it easier for people to read. I think that ran for a couple of weeks on my site before it ran out of steam.
Perhaps games like this would help on someone elses forums?
Jas
My site's topic isn't even Survivor! But people love this stuff.
Thanks again :-)
one forum was established, and a few members played them to pass the time in their own words
the other forum was new and had less than 50 posts, there I was getting people just joining up to play on the games and not post
weird!
But remember, that could also cause problems as some members may take offence to having their games taken away from them.
