New Graal Website

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Originally Posted by Spark910

I'm with Rufus on this one. I came as a player and gained an interest in other things. I think those who are interested in developing or have the potential will naturally try it at some point, but they need to play first.

I guess it depends on your belief of whether people would/do come here as developers from the start. I don't think they do.

In light of that, yes we need developers to get more games. But we need players to become developers, making players the most important part, the developers a natural side effect of increasing the player count.

There is no reason why both couldn't be highlighted on the website, but I believe the player aspect is more important. You need to let people enjoy and get addicted to make someone develop for nothing. People won't come with a passion for Graal and a willingness to help for free from the start. A website that says "GRAAL - DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - NO TANGIBLE RETURN ON INVESTMENT" won't get developers or players any time soon.

Eitherway, I'd welcome a change. I was excited, and now a little disappointed, as I thought the website had actually changed or was about to within a short space of time

Well, a lot of people are very interested in "developing their own game," but they don't quite know how. It's very attractive to someone to provide a somewhat easy development platform. Once we get better documentation and video tutorials (which we already started doing on testbed), it should be quite a lot better.

You make a really great point about games attracting people to Graal; which is why I certainly agree with not completely leaving the gaming field, but right now Graal is only advertised as a game-- it should be advertised as both.

Also, with the addition of a new website, I believe it could provide more motivation for developers (myself included) to work harder to improve other aspects of Graal too, while the website attracts new players. The other day I showed someone I know the website for Graal, and they were completely confused and turned off by it, if I had not been standing there next to them they would have given up trying to download the client/create an account and would have left the site. I was disgusted to say the least, and it was a huge wakeup call for me.