Gaming Ideas

URL – game.techtree.com

Important – the gaming site should be more flash images and embedded jpg like tech2.com instead of like Techtree.com. The background artwork of the site must have at least 20-30 different artworks and the artworks must change randomly every hour, to give a ‘newness’ to visitors if they check back frequently.

Sections on homepage:

Whazzup! – News section (10 news items in one line each, small fonts)

Review Preview – all of Navneet’s Work here

Pwnage – first gaming league and cross gaming ranking. Players will have to register with their email IDs and will receive a GamerID number. Primarily game scores from Techtree’s own league table server will be taken but if additional resources can be acquired to compile stats from other major gaming contests across the country and assign scores to respective gamers, that would be great. Thus in a way the annual league table will announce the best 10 gamers in the country every year in say, June. They will become brand names and all gamers from the 2nd year onwards will die to see their name on the Pwnage List.

These three will be the primary sections visible as the homepage opens, each taking 1/3 rd of the width of the screen. For further sections the visitor will have to click on the buttons in a bar right under the Logo (in the top centre of the screen)

The other important sections (accessible through the top bar on the home page. When the respective pages open up there will be only one home page key and not other confusing links. Thus from the home page a person can visit the trailers section, and from there he cannot go to the Pwnage section, he will only see the homepage key and other trailer’s links, no confusing or different copy apart from game trailers will be there)

TTTrailerz (aka TechTree Trailers), not links, we will need to have a heavy server ready to serve up the latest servers in both HD and low resolution just like GameTrailers.

Screenz – similar to the above, but only with lots and lots of screenshots

Hall of Shame – this would make every fair gamer rejoice and want to hug techtree.com, this will work based on emails sent by at least 10 gamers (from 10 different email IDs or our 5 of our own GamerIDs). People encounter hackers and cheaters in games everyday, sometimes the admin isn’t there, sometimes he is. The admin bans the hackers and this list can be taken from the admins of servers like IndiaGunners, IGL etc. Besides we will have a “Report It” which is basically like an emergency ambulance service for poor gamers who get pwned by hackers when there are no admins around. We will have to hire a person to do this job from home or wherever. He will be always available on chat, and aggrieved gamers can send him a request at anytime (even offline messages) to come and see of someone is hacking or not (the person will be an expert at spotting hacks and hackers). If he spots someone hacking, he will take down their steam id and ip and add it to the list. Most hackers usually play from Sify and RWW, so whenever our man encounters someone from Sify hacking on a server, he will increase the tick counter of Sify by 1, thus in a few weeks SIFY counter would probably read something like 7543 hackers and RWW like 3400 Hackers in last 20. This would be our power to report the un-hampered hacking that goes on in Sify and RWW cafes which is causing a lot of trouble for all gamers and spoiling nation gaming standards. We will them take these figures to Sify and RWW and report their replies right there next to the counters.

Tourney Roundup – results of the various tourneys held across the country, including upcoming tourneys

Games Score – A daily update on the highest selling games in the country (it will be our exclusive content, and we will prohibit anyone else from trying to copy this index, we will have to hand this work over to the call centre team, one or two people from the call centre will have to call a list of some 30-50 retailers every day or every alternate day to get the latest game sales figures. That will have to be compiled and a ranking of the highest selling games made, with daily updates.)

GameXChange – a forum where people can list (in ebay style) the games they are ready to exchange for certain games that they may want

Machinima – Gamer’s video submissions, need to be funny, or be short movies, or machinima videos, not the regular game videos

GameTools – a download page featuring hundreds of useful small programs for gamers

Gamer Babe Pageant – a monthly thing where 10 latest female game characters pics are featured and gamers are asked to rate their favourite who will be Miss March, Miss April and so on.

Walkthroughs

Expert Tips – Including user submitted user tips

GameWalls – popular games’ wallpapers in high resolution

UR Gaming Machine today – up to the minute updated prices, contact numbers, specifications, photos about PCs in three categories 1) Cheapest & Best 2) Best of both Worlds 3) Insanity Machine

Café Listings – legal or illegal we don’t care, we will contact all the cafes in the country, most will contact us directly, and we will ask them to submit their address, phone number, 3 lines of description about their café and the rate charged per hour, a google map to the area if possible.

Gaming Feature Ideas

How much is too much? – spending/wasting too much time playing games is a fact that a lot of gamers and especially their parents & friends are waking upto. We try to discuss the limits that the recreation of gaming should be confined to ideally.

P.R.O – want to make a career as a gamer, seriously? First take a look at how good you are and can be. Professional clans like SK (the first clan with legal status) make millions playing (and more importantly winning) gamers from around the world. Can you honestly be as good as them? Can you practise 18 hours a day?

DIY, Starting a Clan – what exactly does a clan do and how do the clan members and clan-mates function. Here’s a look at some successful Indian and international clans and interviews with their members. Plus we have tips for you to get started on a clan of your own.

Have PC, Have Plasma TV? Wanna connect them? – Many plasma owners maybe PC enthusiasts and may not want a console. How can you connect your PC to a large screen plasma TV and enjoy the experience. Plus how can you use a projector for gaming.

The 50 Hottest Game Babes of all time (could be made into a PLAYerBOY mini magazine mailed to all our registered users)

Top 20 game tips of all time for any game

The best 30 K gaming machine today (updated every week)

The best 50 K gaming machine today (updated every week)

Careers in game development

Tools that help you instantly start making a Game!

DIY - Make game movies (Machinima) – all the tools, softwares, capturing mechanisms and free editing software that you’ll need to make your own no-budget action flick, plus tips to be a great filmmaker.

Indian Computer Games till date

Indians in Gaming – all the famous game developers, programmers, artists and even gamers known internationally but who are PIOs (People of India Origin)

Hidden areas/Easter eggs in some popular games

Games from Movies, Movies from Games – we discuss the connections between games and movies and what inspired what

The future of gaming in India – the gaming industry worldwide is bigger than Hollywood. What is the future of gaming in a country with half a billion people under the age of 25?