https://youtu.be/SFBCNnOhYgs?si=1UMqa-AGYtj_x65LI made a website to revive dead multiplayer games! I just launched it, tell me what you guys think!
>>733240416I think you should buy an ad
>>733240494it's a hobby project, not commercial
>>733240416i like the idea but how is this any different from joining, say a steamgroup
>>733240592I see. So would you say your post is advertising a noncommercial service?
Actually seems like a good idea.
>>733240748it reaches a broader audience by not being contained in any specific group and allows niche games to be seen by people who were not actively seeking them out
I'll look into it more once it gets more attention, the only session up right now is for console TF2 which doesn't interest me
Good idea, but the website itself needs to be known to thousands of people actively looking to play random multiplayer games.
>>733240416It needs a discord bot.It's limited to people that want to use the website, the website should simply be an interface. A discord bot should also be able to interface with it.The problem it has is reach. It's reach is limited to who knows it exists. But if discord servers for dead games for finding matches could also use it on top of their community, you'd bridge a gap between your website and different communities.
>>733240416Wasn't GameRanger enough?
>>733241976Right now I have a discord bot setup for active session alerts (but it's direct dm only), I agree with your points, I'll look into making another bot for discord channels themselves.
>>733242221GameRanger is for games that are dead as in "their official master servers were shut down", not "hard to find people playing them"
>>733242303gotcha
>>733242253Active session notifications is nice.You should try marketing it on reddit, look for the subreddits of playing old video games and so on.It's a cool project nonetheless, I'll be using it eventually.Best of luck to you anon.
>>733242579>You should try marketing it on redditHe is, there's a button on the site to go to a subleddit
>>733240416I'll try setting up a NFS:Porsche game tonight and see how that turns out! (:<
>>733240416I have a feeling this is just an extra step before everyone just makes a new discord server or whatever>play games with randos >"hey man that was fun what's your name on discord we should play together again">"wow I've got so many friends to play with now and they're all free at the same time as I am. Why would I use GameDate anymore?">GameDate is now empty or the only people available are the ones no one wants to play with
>>733240494why buy an ad when you can post about it here silly?
>>733240416based idea
>>733242828>extra step before everyone just makes a new discord serverNot when Discord is killing itself I say this as if millions won't keep using it after they enforce that face ID stuff
>>733242828That sounds retarded, even for /v/.
Is GamerDate a play on words with Gamergate?
>>733242828That'd be fine if there's a discord bot.Join a game on anons website -> create a discord with regulars -> discord implements the bot because it allows them to play with more people and at different times.
>>733242952>>733242986I take it back.
neatdoubt it's going to pick up any steam though
>>733242579>>733242756Well, I would but I don't have a active enough account to post there yet, reddit restrictions suck these days
Bump cuz this seems cool
>>733240416That's a really good idea for a site Anon, I hope people use it
>>733240494Fuck you nigger OP might genuinely have a based idea
>>733243034I can't be the only one who thought that.
>>733243874You ae.
MADE A POST FOR A DEAD GAME NO ONE HAS HEARD OF NAMED "TRASH" (ITS AN RTS)
>>733240416no thanks, i'm heterosexual
>>733240494>do i fit in yet
>>733240416you are a god for making this
if this doesnt take off im gonna kill myself i wanna use this
>>733240416The site feels smooth to use.Nifty idea OP. Hope it gets the needed exposure for it to work.
I like the old steam-like UI
>>733243948No way, it's literally just one letter off.
Sounds cool, does it include console games?
>>733240845if NGOs can do it, so can he
>>733240748Search indexing, makes it easier for fresh blood to find the sessions via simple web search instead of trawling through ten thousand dead groups on steam to find the actual one that's still alive
Another claudeslop website, kys
>I could possibly have a full lobby playing Dirty Bomb in the big '26Tantalizing....
>no accountsThis is going to get gunked up with bullshit lobbies real quick.Best of luck!
Also why would you start here but not on /vm/
>>733247125this
>>733247125/vr/ too, while at it.
>>733247125I assume because trafic here is a few orders of magnitude higher
>>733242221game ranger is abandonware for like 10 years at this point
>>733245315thank you! All the sessions are loaded into memory for instant search results! inspired by voidtools everything!>>733246316I almost want them there, it makes the site feel more active. Plus, you can hide threads and comments if they're annoying
>>733240416Thank you, anon. I'll give it a look see
>>733240416I really hope this get's some traction, a lot. I often want to play some obscure game, and the only option in 1000x2+26 is to spam on discord servers praying you don't get ignored, or get the worst bottom of the barrel terminally online cunts from places like /vg/, /vr/ and /vm/.So go to every single corner of the internet and shill it, no shame, no fucks given, shill the fuck out of it>>733240494Shut the fuck up, this is the first non-faggot OP shilling something of worth in what feels forever
very cool op, wishing u success
>>733240416I don't play multiplayer games but this looks pretty cool
>>733250509I'll definitely try. I think I need to make a youtube short as well, and if anyone can shill this on reddit, that would mean a lot, my account on reddit doesn't have enough activity to post new threads on subreddits that aren't my own, i'll get jostled by the jannies there
>>733240416That's pretty cool
>>733240416I want this to explode, have reach and become popular.
I was fucking around with the site for a bit but it actually does deserve at least a consideration into actually being used, if it's not a dumpster fire by Saturday I may actually post something legitimate on it.
I love all the feedback I've received so far, it's awesome I wasn't one wanting a system like this to replay old games, I feel like my job now is to just shill it constantly for a week and see if it goes viral.>>733252595I can delete those posts at any time, I just love seeing activity on the site that isn't just me creating hundreds of fake sessions to test everything. Would the shitposting scare normies away? I enjoy watching them fuck around with the site.
>>733252724i meant to type>it's awesome I wasn't *the only* one wanting a system like this to replay old games
>>733240416https://www.gamedate.org/
>>733252724I mean, it'd scare me off if the stored XSS actually worked so the fact that it doesn't is a good thing. For other posts, idk about any of those but it's good that you have an option to uncensor and the default is censoring.
>>733240416I like being anonymous and all here, but for stuff like OP's website I think creating an account should be mandatory.Trolls and bots are just too rampant nowadays.
>>733240416holy wtf an actual good post?
>>733253715Unless OP will integrate SSO or Seamless SSO then no, fuck no. I close a website every time I'm forced to make a new account. But IF the site will actually become popular then accounts could be a nice feature to track session statistics and history etc.>>7332404161. Does the site update the sessions list in real time? Or do I have to refresh it every minute?2. Do you have any jannies reviewing reported posts? Or is the process automated? There is no captcha, how are you going to stop a javascript script from mass reporting every single comment on the site in a while(true) loop?
>>733254697alright, coolso it's a 4chan board basically.
>>733243034You know what? I just realized that it says 'GameDate' and not 'GamerDate'.I'm actually retarded.
>>733254697>site update the sessions list in real time?yes! The sync indicator on the bottom right shows you when each part updates.>Do you have any jannies reviewing reported posts?it's literally just me, and I might sleep soon. There's cloudflare turnstile so certain bots will be blocked. I might implement something more in the future. the site has limits for spam for everything.
>>733254697NTA but I'd imagine there'll soon be an update that'll have something like that in place. Otherwise, yeah it'd be real easy for somebody to fuck OP's shit up. But in the mean time...>Voted WET, KF1 and PDTH
They died for a reason.
i've had this idea for like 20 years but never did anything about it. funnily enough i was just thinking about it again last night watching people play PS vita games.
>>733254697>Unless OP will integrate SSO or Seamless SSO then no, fuck no. I close a website every time I'm forced to make a new accountHave fun trying to join an old game that's already hard to play together only to realize 90% of sessions are made by bots and trolls retard
>>733254982Which is?
>>733254982yeah for being too based for this cursed hero-shooter-moba-slop worldI might add more features and maybe "account only" filtering in the future, right now I don't want to stray too far from being pro anon.
>>733255103No one wants to play them
>>733240416Most dead MP games are dead because nobody wants to play it
>>733240416Sperg here, how is this supposed to work? Do you like schedule a session and then what? Share your steam/discord profile publicly? Share steam/joingame links publicly? Post a room or server name publicly and hope not to get GameDate-sniped?
>>733240416Honestly a nice sentiment, good on you Anon.
>>733255161>it's another boomer who thinks himself superior because he doesn't play modern games while being stuck on playing the same (dead) ones he played when he was 15
>>733240416>I may get to play Shattered Horizon again one dayTantalizing
>>733255186Their dead because most people don't have the time for them anymore. Scheduling a date would make the most sense. Not something NEETs would understand
>>733240416fantastic project, i wish for your success. i appreciate the classic steam ui.
>>733240416seems neat, dig the design. will use it later
>missed the shitposting
>>733255505Yes, it's mostly for public games that are joinable by IP, you can also try joining via links from steam. Are there many games that could be griefed by knowing the session location?>>733257659>>733257829>>733257003thanks dudes! once people start posting actual game sessions it'll feel less like a shitpost gallery and more like a real site.
>>733258247>no accountsI appreciate that a lot, but I think the whole page will be raped by bots in a matter of hours after this becomes well known on social media.
>>733258018Oh no you missed the dime-a-dozen insincere shitposting on the internet. Whatever will you do?
>>733240416That's really cool
>>733241976>video explicitly has the guy going on about how he hates Discord, not just because of search indexing but also because of their practices>durr, he needs to add Discord integration
>>733240494retard
The one problem I have with this is that I don't want to advertise my servers to /v/ users
Bump
Just marked all sessions as 90% interested but I'm not actually interested.Haha people will be waiting for me all day long.
>>733261969would you be ok advertising only to people signed on through their steam and discord accounts?
mehyour heart is in the right place but I'll be surprised if this lives very long
>>733240494You fucking retard
>youtube breaks the day I need to shill my discord alternativecool.
Neato. Any possibility of automated voice chat rooms? Not necessarily discord. A steam chat message notification bot might also be a good addition but I don't know if that's still possible.
>>733263659>discord alternativeI cant talk with my friends via voice here.
mods should sticky this thread tbqh
>>733264120>mods doing anything based in current year
>>733263080I wasn't being entirely serious. Also I'm not sure It'd be a good idea to allow rooms to hide themselves behind a login since you're fragmenting the userbase and it goes against the spirit of the site.
bump
>>733240416>google comes out with vibecoding jeetware>dozens of new "i made this" pop up on 4chan
>>733240494>d-dude just fund this honeypotlmao least obvious 4shill
>>733240416looks cool anon good job!
Good website. I hope you can shill this to other places so we can have people use it.
>>733240416It's a neat idea but honestly I don't see it working out for the same reason you made it in the first place, if a game is dead and I want to set up a match I can make a thread and hope someone replies they'll still need to actually see the thread to sign up, if I post it on your sight I have to hope that someone sees it before the date that's setThe best use case for it is probably going to be /vg/ threads using it to coordinate scheduling but otherwise what are the chances someone visits the site daily looking for whatever game they want instead of just making a threadWe should return to forums
>>733240416Looks cool, AnonHoping I can get some Awesomenauts up and going
>>733267803I like the idea that this is more of a universal calendar rather than a "looking for a game RIGHT NOW." A lot of these dead games are dead because of mob mentality - you hop on, nobody's on, you hop off. If you post a LFG message, you might get lucky and find one or two people, but if you want a full server, you're fucked. Encouraging a large group of people to set time aside ahead of time should increase the likelihood that people actually all hop on at the same time. It's a great concept.
>>733240416>discuss button>goes right to redditMight be better to have an internal forum instead, would make segregating topics and discussion easier, already half way there with an active comment section for each scheduled event.>inb4 use discordDiscord makes for the single worst format to build a forum on, it's cumbersome, bloated, poorly laid out, and now effectively a data security risk.Also anon posters should be able to assign a temp name with their ID tag appended to it.
Isn't it basically /doko/
>>733267803I'm hopeful because the reason these games die a lot of times is no one wants to host 24/7, but with this you know roughly how many people your hosting for.
>>733268452Yeah except not a gay discord clique
>>733268232Yeah, what this guy said. You should work on a forum, or at least a small one - considering I have no idea how long it took you to make this nor your skillset, but this is also needed I believe. You don't want to fragment your community, OP.
>>733240416>no email registration, no discord faggotrySad how rare that is these days. Good move.Only fundamental problem is that people don't like planning and commitments. Especially for casual activities. You're turning gaming into a job. I get what you're going for but gaming sessions (in my experience) are a spur of the moment thing. I'd rather make a thread on 4chan or just ask my friends when I feel like playing atm.
Have a bump because this is actually good.
This would be useful, if all discord LFG servers auto created sessions with bots. This way entire world has a way of knowing which dead games are trending. But one big issue here. It will take bajillion years for OP to shill his website enough for every single LFG server to implement it by default. A website like this would only work if discord themselves implemented it directly to discord or something. Call it "CURRENTLY TRENDING LFG GAMES". You want centralization but only discord can do that at this point. No matter how much you hate it discord is the only true gamer gathering site today. Forget about this project getting big, anon.
its just waiting for WOAH DUDE JOIN THIS LOBBY OF OLD ASS GAME THAT HASNT UPDATES in forever and get some virus
>>733268697Also this.People are usually like "I can join in 30 minutes"or"Maybe we can play tomorrow"I don't know people doing gaming sessions. Streamers maybe do but that doesn't count.
>>733268912wait you're right this is guaranteed to happen at some point LOL
The issue isn't setting a date and time.It's actually making a community for people interested in playing a wide variety of older games.
>>733268813NTOP but there have been a couple occasions where something like this has. It's also a good time to capitalize on Discord shooting themselves in the foot, alongside people getting tired of the former and looking for a new way to experience gaming. If this site retains a moderately humble population alongside some semblance of forums, I could see this being popular.
>>733268972How many newfags actually play old multiplayer games anyway?Some discord LFG servers legit feel like retirement house with at least a few actual 40+ years old players.
>>733268972I think the point is the site acts as a way for people interested in playing a specific game to actually get people together to play it.Stuff like that is how you restart any games community, and having a single place where people can just pop in to see when things will be active next just makes the whole process a lot easier.
>>733269082sure, except in order to build community you need people to have a singular place to also just casually chat with each otherif this came with a forum then that would be possible, but it oursources that shit to fucking reddit
>>733240416Mini threads 2chan style under each game might be a good idea for disgussion. Would likely lead to management bloat though
>>733240416Looks cool! Make sure you post it on /vr/
>>733268949yes its obvious lol especially the obscure ones its meant for and if they're source available like UT2004 or Wolfenstein or some shit, dont get me started on CoD lobbies lol ur gonna get fucked
>>733269115>if this came with a forum then that would be possibleYeah that needs to be a feature, having a comment thread for each event is great and all, but having a better place to more formally arrange things and discuss certain titles would be helpful.
>>733269207im legit retarded and ive already clicked on a download link there so
>>733269286ur fine i just said its just gonna happen at some point especially if theres no community with warning people about it
>>733269082>Stuff like that is how you restart any games communityThere is no restarting. The only times people are interested in something is launch day and then it slowly dwindles and dies. You can technically "relaunch" a game via a port but that's not the exactly same thing.
>>733269060Why, there's already a few people getting together in the Payday: TH, MGO2, WoW, TF2 and the Tribes Ascend threads. I'd say there's an untapped audience here, but OP is going to have to work fast if he wants to retain attention on his site.
>>733269405>The only times people are interested in something is launch day and then it slowly dwindles and dies.Shit like TF2 still sees 40k+ players every day and basically exists on life support.You don't even need that many to keep a game active, just a few servers that sit mostly full most times of the day.You won't see the same sort of activity you would on launch, but it'll be playable for anyone that wants to hop on and play a few rounds.
>>733269543if it werent for the behemoth being Steam TF2 would've died out already even if theyre doing no updates
>>733247125>why post on dead boards about dead video game revival that's like posting your advertisement in an abandoned building desu you WANT eyes to see it
isn't that what >>>/vm/ is for?
>>733269949/vm/ sucks tho
>>733268147I don't mean using it as a looking for right now thing either, no matter what time period you set it for you have to bet on people seeing it before the event happens
I love the Zsnes blizzard setting. Who ever designed the UI is a genius
>>733270847true
>>733269424the tribes ascend one was a meme thread i made lel
>>733272547It doesn't have to be a meme. You could make it a reality.
>>7332700466000 Anons used to post here...now it's a wasteland.
>>733240416have a bump OP
>>733240416>>733247724/vm/ would still be a decent secondary place for feedback without needing a account to post. Plus /vm/ used to have emulation multiplayer generals where people would try to set up lobbies for emulated games.
>>733240416OP I have already begun shilling this on other sites. I will use this as much as possible because I really want this to become popular
>>733240494based retard
how did you manage to get your site to rank so highly on search engines? I thought they don't index shit anymore, unless you pay up.
>>733274434based
>>733240416Oh hell yeah. I've actually been working on something similar as a wxWidgets-based C++ client, but this blows away what I had in mind (seriously, it was gonna be like this chat frontend thing for Matrix as a workaround for needing to host my own web server, and have nearly as many features as this). Seriously, good on ya anon. Glad to see someone else in the world still gives a proper shit about multiplayer vidya.If I had to make a suggestion, if you can set up any kind of API for this to query what sessions are available with a GET request, but don't worry about it too much since I doubt most people would use it beyond goobers like me.
>>733275864*and not have nearly
>>733240416may as well post this herecounter attack is having a game day later this month
>>733240494fpbp>youtu.be>si=1UMqa-AGYtj_x65L
I remember when Neotokyo used to have weekly get togethers using steam group notifications, long after it was technically dead.
do I have a virus now?
>>733276337You downloaded more ram
>>733267803>The best use case for it is probably going to be /vg/ threadsNobody lurks /vg/ so nobody will ever find a thread for a super obscure old game.
>>733243874You genuinely are. My first thought was some kind of dating platform for vidyaKind of surprised OP didn't pitch it like that. A platform designed to make it easy for everyone on /v/ to gather in some dead Korean multiplayer game for one big gay ERP orgy
This is fucking garbage. Some fucking reddit nigger comes and shills his website on here. Kill yourself faggot. The last thing i want to do is play with normalfags.Im surprised at all the faggots praising the site and wanting to play with non-imageboard users. Fucking newfags have probably never participated in a gamenight.
>>733240494the amount of shills replying to you means you're right
I'm just waiting for some game I like pop up, which will be, like, never
>>733240416pretty cooli should probably do projects like these to practice my coding skills>t. tech support CS grad wagie
>>733276657>4tranny complaining about normalfagsSo sad! :)
>>733269115gamedev here, thats the complete opposite of what should be done, the more you allow a gossipy insular forum community to grow the less time they will spend on the main objective of playing the games and the more they will start building anti-new people culture, destroying everything around them and then complaining about the destruction.
>>733240416Namedropping The Hidden like that was a nostalgia flashbang.I also miss Iron Grip. Now THAT was a mod.
>>733240494ITT fippy so bippy it causes OP to samefag for over 12 hours
>>733240845>did u just do something that requires EFFORT?!? lolololol like erm kysstop being retarded
>>733276657this is like slapping away the hand reaching out to you from above while you're drowning in a septic tank.
This thread is a prime example of the fact that a lot of newfags and secondaries from tw*tter bought the meme that /v/ hates video games and that 4chan is a place to just be miserable and outright despise fun, so they hate it when people actually put a foot forward on having fun.
>>733240416I like it OP, and hope it blows up without botspam. Very soulful ui
>>733277095I miss the golden days of HL 1&2 mods>Zombie Panic Source>Zombie Master>Dystopia>The Specialist>Eternal Silence>Sven Co-opIt hurts knowing most of them are dead and the few still alive are basically on life support.
>>733240416I will be using your website. Thanks anon!
>>733243874I don't play multiplayer games, but I hope all the best to your endeavor
>>733240494fpbp
>>733278106>Iron Grip: The Oppression :'(
>>733268452 what is that
holy fucking kino
website actually seems cool. I like the 2004 steam aesthetic
>>733279432>>>/vm/2238856
>>733279440Horsecuck really can't help themselves
>>733279497also it's weird to see a modern website this responsive. It should be more like the epic game launcher where it locks up for 10 seconds everytime you click something
Bump because I appreciate the actual effort to play fukcing videogames.
>>733260903His own website literally mentions including a DIscord link you fucking moron.
>>733240416Really nice website, but highly recommend that you add an option to specify host country/region (e.g. oceania), along with possible region filter options. A lot of older/dead games just don't play well with high ping and it'd be nice to find people in my region specifically.Since people could host a dedicated server in another country, it's best to leave it up to the user to specify which the host country is rather than having the site determine it based on IP or whatever.
>>733240494you are representative of everything wrong with /v/ today along with gaming in general
