Author Topic: (Optional?) In-Game Ads to Support Development Costs (Read 44350 times)

jitspoe · « **Reply #20 on:** January 21, 2008, 03:57:37 PM »

This style of banner is more what I had in mind:

http://gomavs.unomaha.edu/marketing/images/fb_banner_big.jpg
http://www.leaguelineup.com/nslltest/photos/majors2.jpg
http://www.lynchburgunited.com/Portals/French/FenceBanner4.JPG
http://www.lynchburgunited.com/Portals/French/FenceBanner1.JPG

James · « **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2008, 04:01:45 PM »

I can make you some real banners. We sell them at $5 a square foot. Unlimited words and up to 4 colors!!!

Garrett · « **Reply #22 on:** January 21, 2008, 04:39:30 PM »

He has no need for real banners though. All of the above links are ideas to make in game, digital banners

James · « **Reply #23 on:** January 21, 2008, 04:42:50 PM »

Thank you for pointing that out, I was trying to figure out how he would get a real banner into his computer and display on the screen.

DaRkNeSS · « **Reply #24 on:** January 21, 2008, 04:44:13 PM »

Yeah he was most likely making a joke on the internet. Unheard of I know.

Garrett · « **Reply #25 on:** January 21, 2008, 05:01:12 PM »

Jitspoe and many people on this forum are good graphics makers and I think it is quiet easy to just get a picture from the internet and make them into a format that could be used to make the banners in game.

Eiii · « **Reply #26 on:** January 21, 2008, 08:42:48 PM »

Yeah, converting from jpg to jpg is pretty tough. It's a bit more complicated than just 'get image off internets then get money', though.

Garrett · « **Reply #27 on:** January 21, 2008, 08:52:29 PM »

Haha I know that. I was making the point that real life banners would make Jits do more work vs. less if he gets the banner ideas from the internet.

Eiii · « **Reply #28 on:** January 22, 2008, 12:27:20 AM »

I don't think jits would be making them at all.

webhead · « **Reply #29 on:** January 29, 2008, 01:06:48 AM »

Quote from: sk89q on January 20, 2008, 02:38:06 AM

In-game ads test:
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They're real. They're on my server (KAF) on the ub_cliff and ub_rooftop maps. I may add them to a few other popular maps, but preferably in more obscure locations.
...

tis awesome. i'd vote for it.

sk89q · « **Reply #30 on:** January 29, 2008, 02:10:47 AM »

They're a bit obnoxious. Even on propaint1, where it was "hidden" in the bottom level, it was still kind of weird.

I would rather have them on the scores list.

y00tz · « **Reply #31 on:** January 29, 2008, 02:26:55 AM »

loading screens, the main menu, etc. Just a permanent fixed add would be perfect. Having ads in maps is highly subjective to the map.

jitspoe · « **Reply #32 on:** February 11, 2008, 10:25:13 PM »

Ah-hah, I was going through some paintball pictures I saved and found the perfect example of banners at a paintball field:

y00tz · « **Reply #33 on:** February 11, 2008, 11:31:18 PM »

Quote from: jitspoe on February 11, 2008, 10:25:13 PM

Ah-hah, I was going through some paintball pictures

Little young for a mid-life crisis?

jitspoe · « **Reply #34 on:** February 12, 2008, 11:46:50 AM »

Quote from: y00tz on February 11, 2008, 11:31:18 PM

Little young for a mid-life crisis?

Quarter-life cry... lol, crisis. Actually, I was moving stuff off of the hard drive of an old computer that died.

y00tz · « **Reply #35 on:** February 12, 2008, 11:46:33 PM »

On a tad more serious note, that picture really introduces something we don't see in DP maps, I like the idea of a sort of field within a level.

LoVeRs · « **Reply #36 on:** March 30, 2008, 01:36:40 PM »

please if your going to do this..make it a menu only....adding advertisement to the actual map would take away from mappers made. i honestly wouldn't wanna see a picture of smilin' bob on pbcup.bsp......but...a picture on the score tab....would be just fine.

T3RR0R15T · « **Reply #37 on:** March 31, 2008, 01:46:46 PM »

Its possible to make somethink like a dynamic texture?
That mappers can integrate it somewhere.

i_am_a_pirate · « **Reply #38 on:** April 22, 2008, 01:33:15 PM »

The problem with putting them in maps: 2949 unique maps are indexed.
Thats a hell of a lot of maps

Eiii · « **Reply #39 on:** April 24, 2008, 04:38:02 PM »

15 are played.