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by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 04:58

I noticed some people talking about advertising minetest and I'm making a topic about it so here's a few advertising ideas.

1. If you own a website put some stuff about minetest on it
Now this is completely your choice I can't force you to do this so its up to you

2. Talk about it in any way (social network,face to face,etc)
What better way to get minetest out there than talking about it?

If you have any other ideas say them but remember the community shouldnt get to big or it would be a big mess ;-)
(NOTE) Ragnar had the website advertisement idea first

by **kaeza** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:12

This topic is being discussed on two places already:
Original Topic: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4210
and on #minetest on IRC (look for me, Jordach, john_minetest, leo_rockway, or Jakssoul if you have any more ideas).

by **Menche** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:14

There's a facebook community here, but there hasn't been that much activity recently. There's a really ancient, dead facebook page here, and a newer one here (1089 likes?!?!).

by **kaeza** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:20

It could help a bit ;)

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:24

kaeza wrote:This topic is being discussed on two places already:
Original Topic: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4210
and on #minetest on IRC (look for me, Jordach, john_minetest, leo_rockway, or Jakssoul if you have any more ideas).

Thats the topic I saw this on but the topic purpose was asking why it isn't more popular this is about making more known

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:40

yo doggy, why arent ya crediting me for the idea of advertising minetest on the website

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:41

Ragnar wrote:yo doggy, why arent ya crediting me for the idea of advertising minetest on the website

Ah sorry I will do this now

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:42

minetest t-shirts will be ready in a week!

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:43

thanks alot =)

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:44

Ragnar wrote:minetest t-shirts will be ready in a week!

Be sure to have MINETEST written in big bold letters

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:45

Ragnar wrote:thanks alot =)

Very much welcome

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:50

1. no, it will say "A Minecraft Rip-Off" xD 2. therd will be some of PilzAdam'S simple mobs skins, like same monster... tell me if i cant, because the textures are not WTFPL (sometimes i thought it was a typo, and had to be wtfppl)

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 06:53

Ragnar wrote:1. no, it will say "A Minecraft Rip-Off" xD 2. therd will be some of PilzAdam'S simple mobs skins, like same monster... tell me if i cant, because the textures are not WTFPL (sometimes i thought it was a typo, and had to be wtfppl)

Ask PilzAdam if you could use them I guess

by **jojoa1997** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 07:05

add this to the shirt
http://minetest.net/images/minetest-icon-120.png

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 07:46

i will, but i think ill re-draw it...

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:21

Chinchow wrote:
Ragnar wrote:1. no, it will say "A Minecraft Rip-Off" xD 2. therd will be some of PilzAdam'S simple mobs skins, like same monster... tell me if i cant, because the textures are not WTFPL (sometimes i thought it was a typo, and had to be wtfppl)

Ask PilzAdam if you could use them I guess

Yea, you can use them if you want. But I dont think they look good at a t-shirt...

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:46

maybe a shirt with a firefly? or 2 xD

by **rubenwardy** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 15:12

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Minetest/335345033194147?ref=ts&fref=ts should be official

by **Ragnar** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 15:30

maybe... oh and im getting my pc back tomorrow, and i will make a wb gameplay-commentary, whos with me?

by **VanessaE** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 22:03

You should use my splash screen on your T-shirts:

With the GUI and a 1280x1024 window, it looks like this:

(I originally made this splash image for my HDX texture pack)

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 22:10

VanessaE wrote:You should use my splash screen on your T-shirts:

With the GUI and a 1280x1024 window, it looks like this:

(I originally made this splash image for my HDX texture pack)

Wow that is good may I ask what program it was made with?

by **VanessaE** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 22:22

Just my desktop environment's screenshot utility to capture the screen once I had my player positioned just right, and The GIMP to apply a few effects.

The texture pack used at the time was HDX, all files therein were created with Inkscape and The GIMP, but none specifically for that image.

by **jordan4ibanez** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 22:36

Why would you want to get minetest out there right now? Maybe when 0.5 comes out sure, or when it's more stable sure, all that's going to happen now is a player will join, be like the normal "Blah blah, I'm new, what is this? Oh it's buggy? Blah! BLAH BLAH! I'm leaving this is poopoo!!1!!!!!1!!!1" because they don't understand how to internet, and yea.

by **Chinchow** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 22:38

jordan4ibanez wrote:Why would you want to get minetest out there right now? Maybe when 0.5 comes out sure, or when it's more stable sure, all that's going to happen now is a player will join, be like the normal "Blah blah, I'm new, what is this? Oh it's buggy? Blah! BLAH BLAH! I'm leaving this is poopoo!!1!!!!!1!!!1" because they don't understand how to internet, and yea.

Think about it do we want a ton of people that don't understand it and at the first problem talk trash no,no we dont

by **Josh** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 01:59

were will we sell the t-shirts? I reckon on the minetest site.
You could pay with paypal/bank deposit then get it delivered to you. I reckon we should sell them at 2 or 4 dollars. :)

by **Ragnar** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 06:57

josh, no, cause we already discussed this, that we wont buy the shirts, then sell them... and 3-4 bucks isnt enought...

by **davidpace** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 14:11

How about, somebody makes the shirts, then they sell the shirts, then... The money made goes to celeron55!!!

by **Ragnar** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 14:16

all of it?
then you can do it yourself...

by **davidpace** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 14:32

No not all the $$$ goes to c55, most of it :-). Whoever makes the shirts gets to keep some percentage of the money :D.

Ummm and there shouldn't be just one person working on it, there should be multiple people working on it :D

by **Ragnar** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 14:43

the company making the t shirts gets maybe 50-75%

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