Lots of news of interest from Dan of the Goat Store:
“Hey all,
Unlike my last messages, you can pass on whatever information you would like to anywhere you would like to put it (news releases, whatever.) If you would like to wait, there will be an official GOAT Store news release on all of this within the next few days. I can’t guarantee just when, but this will give you some additional details.
DC Games
Inhabitants and Maqiupai are almost here. I am told that they are shipping from the factory to us in less than a week’s time now. As soon as we get them, all preorders will be shipped immediately, and then they will get an official release on our site a couple days. The delay will be to ensure that we don’t release them before Lik-Sang and Good Deal Games get the games. Tentatively, the “official” release date will be 11/22, but that hasn’t been finalized yet. Whenever we make the official release, you can believe that
The releases will not be shrinkwrapped, which is a necessary evil from the fact that the disks are being replaced.
Again, it will be huge to get all the help that we can from people in the way of promoting the game, so please do post reviews, previews and links where ever you can. And while you’re at it, join the…
Affiliate Program
Speaking of promotion, the Affiliate Program is officially starting. All that is left right now is for us is to make a news release, add links to the footer and so on. If you want to get a head start, here is a link to the application:
http://www.goatstore.com/affiliate_application.php
The actual agreement is here:
http://www.goatstore.com/affiliate_agreement.php
Again, we really, really need the help here. Even if you know someone that runs a web site that might be interested, it would be a huge help.
We currently don’t have any banner ads or anything made up for people to put on sites. Therefore, I have an interesting idea for a mini-contest…
GOAT Store Banner Contest
Make a banner for the GOAT Store, LLC Web site. The banner can either be for one Dreamcast game, all Dreamcast games, the site in general or any system that we carry (such as NES or DC specific… or even Sega specific). The size for the ads can be just about anything — of special importance is standard banner ads and smaller buttons.
Submitting any banner means that you agree that we can use it and / or tweak it for our use, of course. Other basic things to think about if entering:
GOAT is always capitialized. It is never Goat.
Copper (the GOAT Logo that we use on the site and my avatar) is our GOAT. Please do not use any other pictures of goats.
At the end, Gary and I will be judging the entries based on our favorites. There won’t be anything more to it than that
Now for the cool part — winners will get the chance to playtest the GOAT Games Comp. before it comes out. We will be having three people join us for playtesting. How this will work is that we will send you the game in a beta format and ask you to try out the games and the interaction with our web site for high scores. The beta game that you will receive will be the game that we believe will be the final version. Based on your comments, we will tweak the game / menu system before release and add your name to the credits of the game.
Here is how the prizes will be given out:
Our favorite overall GOAT Store banner
Our favorite overall Dreamcast publishing banner
Every entry that we use will be put into a random drawing, and a third and fourth winner will be picked that way. If you submit to us 20 banners that are usable, we will enter you 20 times.
Just to note: Banners we will use are just about anything, as long as they look clean and attractive. We get to determine this at will, of course.
At no time do we want anyone to use any pornographic or lewd stuff on these. There should be no “Inhabitants kicks ASS!” with a picture of a GOAT kicking a Donkey or something (as funny as that might be).
If you do an animated GIF, please keep the size under 20kb at the absolute largest. Shoot for under 10kb if possible.
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So anyway, promote the heck out of the contest!
Upcoming Fun!
GOAT Games, obviously.
Mystery game is still being worked on, and should have some info coming soon…
The pressing troubles are over.
The Maqiupai and Inhabitants Web sites will be opening soon. In a few days when the Maq one is finished, I’ll post a link to go check it out early.”
More info Here
Thanks to LyonHrt for letting me know on IRC.