500 forum users ahead!

[thaaks]

Will the 500th forum user receive a bitmap of a nice bunch of flowers?  :D

Cheers,
Tommy

[Ian Price]

Can I register another 6 accounts and either not post anything and disappear, post a question then disappear or just post a load of crap about how poor PB is? ;) :P

We seriously need to do something about putting PB on the map. Anyone got any ideas? (legal ones!)

In the meantime, let's write some more games. :)

[Calypson]

about 'putting ltpb on the map' - my suggestion would be to extensively advertise PB through the schooling system.  Sell it through schoolastic magazine, or give free copies to schools for educational purposes.  Also - if you created In-IDE tutorials covering the basic's of BASIC, this would be a smash hit among middle schoolers (Much like Interplay's Learn to Program BASIC several years back).  This would immediately put PB on the map.

just my two cents worth

[Bustaballs]

include it in boxes of cereal!

[kevin]

educational purposes

   Love to and we've had interest in this field already.  But there's a hitch, it's not OO.   Sadly, for our high school system at least this is now a requirement.  And yes for those people keeping score, you now know why adding some light weight OO is on the cards... :)

   In terms of advertising, it's tricky.  Retro, 2D is really not very sexy.

  We've tried a few magazines in the past, got a few nibbles but nothing really happened past that. Was a bit of a catch 22 though.  Meaning it's difficult to sell the advantages of a product, which had only existed a brief time at that point. That was 12 to 18 months ago though.          

   Given that's it now a year later and that both PB and examples + games being produced now are of a much higher quality, we now have some much  better ammunition to win some page space in not only computer mags, but any press.   As I think editorial in general in good thing.  For you guys also.