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#101 2010-12-23 14:38:18

uglidoll
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Registered: 2010-11-19
Posts: 8

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

TheSaint wrote:

I have three steps that one must follow to get a great project following. Works for me. No less than 30 comments, 20 love-its and 150 views on any of my projects.
3 Step Process:
1. Make a good, PROFESSIONAL project. Cannot believe how much good this does. People may not like your homade drawings unless you are like Maki-tak with great drawing skills If you arem't, I suggest spriters resource. Fix glitches, use non-annoying music, and give the project a good purpose. Make it look nearly as good as flash. Trust me, it works wonders on popularity.
2. After uploading, IMMEDIATLY add it to galleries. Example: You have a game like Space Invaders/Pheonix. Search for galleries such as "Alien" Add it to every single one that is actually related to alien. Now serach up Aliens, Alein, space, spaceships, shooter, retrogames, stars, missiles, lasers, outer space. Add it to all of those galleries. This helps a bucketload.
3. Post on Fourms, but Jonathonpb has that covered.

Just keep at it and eventually people will remeber you.  big_smile

how do you get/make professional sprites?

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#102 2010-12-24 18:20:27

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Try looking at Spriters' Resource or something.  smile


"Human beings... must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Charlotte Brontë

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#103 2011-01-26 22:05:00

guyman55
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Registered: 2009-05-23
Posts: 500+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

too bad nobody will see my proejcts no matter what

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#104 2011-02-01 04:54:05

HarleyK
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Registered: 2010-05-01
Posts: 100+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

1. Post worthwhile comments on projects and forums (especially if they would be intrested in seeing your projects). Avoid typos if possible.
2. Projects are often found under tags. Adding relevent tags to a project is impotant if you want views.
3. In the Show and Tell forum, post an ad.
4. Make sure the project is graphically sound, and it is well made. Projects will get more views if the person has spent time making them. Intead of making 2 projects that get a few views, make one that gets lots!
5. An easy way to get views is for people to actually CLICK on your project. Projects with more views are found more easily. Add a worthwhile title, and try to make the image of your project eyecatching.
6. And be patient.

They're my ideas.  smile

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#105 2011-02-01 18:49:34

chipguy
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Registered: 2009-09-09
Posts: 500+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

*sigh* great tips. unfortunatly, they don't work for me  sad


http://scratch.mit.edu/static/projects/chipguy/2919121_sm.png by yours truly  big_smile

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#106 2011-02-02 08:03:48

lucari0
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Registered: 2010-02-07
Posts: 39

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

I do adress my projects in a descriptive way, but besides that, my stuff is just starting to get popular over time. I've been on almost a year now (this month will be my one year mark  smile  ) and now I put a project about a glitch, with NO music, and it got 66 views in 2 days :p


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#107 2011-02-02 23:05:53

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

HarleyK wrote:

1. Post worthwhile comments on projects and forums (especially if they would be intrested in seeing your projects). Avoid typos if possible.
2. Projects are often found under tags. Adding relevent tags to a project is impotant if you want views.
3. In the Show and Tell forum, post an ad.
4. Make sure the project is graphically sound, and it is well made. Projects will get more views if the person has spent time making them. Intead of making 2 projects that get a few views, make one that gets lots!
5. An easy way to get views is for people to actually CLICK on your project. Projects with more views are found more easily. Add a worthwhile title, and try to make the image of your project eyecatching.
6. And be patient.

They're my ideas.  smile

Nice tips, going to add them  smile

chipguy wrote:

*sigh* great tips. unfortunatly, they don't work for me  sad

If they worked for everyone, all Scratchers would be famous  wink


"Human beings... must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Charlotte Brontë

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#108 2011-02-07 10:19:36

guyman55
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Registered: 2009-05-23
Posts: 500+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

the scratch galleries ones are helpful the user galleries are unhelpful and the rest are unhelpful so only one is helpful

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#109 2011-02-09 15:36:13

TheSaint
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Registered: 2008-11-04
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Wow, I just re-read my post and I sound very cocky...
tongue

Oh well, it worked back then.

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#110 2011-02-14 20:18:07

NameGirl
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Registered: 2010-10-16
Posts: 1

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Hi, I am NameGirl and my sprite is Namey with her sister, Cameron, and half sister/pet cat, Carter. I thrive on making good animations. Recently, I made and animation called "Superhuman Powers Episode1: SuperStupid" and i worked about 4 1/2 hours on it. It was really hard and i am SOOOooo proud of it, but i have barely any views. Thanks to good friends, I have my most amount of views on this animation, but i still really REALLY want to get front paged. Is it possible anyone wants to see my video? If anyone wants their videos to get viewed, you can post it down below. (But i will not look at your video unless you look at mine and leave a comment saying you were there) Thank you!
lol   tongue   smile   big_smile   wink  ;D ~Namey <switch to costume[AWESOME


To see what a real doofus looks like, watch my animation titled "Superhuman Powers Episode1: SuperStupid"! You will love it! Get this first episode loved enough to 15 love-its, and I'll make a second one! Let's try to get this one front paged!
DEE-HOO-DEE-HOO-DEE-HOO  ~Namey

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#111 2011-02-14 22:43:45

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

TheSaint wrote:

Wow, I just re-read my post and I sound very cocky...
tongue

Oh well, it worked back then.

Yeah, I sometimes feel like that with my old posts too.  tongue

NameGirl wrote:

Hi, I am NameGirl and my sprite is Namey with her sister, Cameron, and half sister/pet cat, Carter. I thrive on making good animations. Recently, I made and animation called "Superhuman Powers Episode1: SuperStupid" and i worked about 4 1/2 hours on it. It was really hard and i am SOOOooo proud of it, but i have barely any views. Thanks to good friends, I have my most amount of views on this animation, but i still really REALLY want to get front paged. Is it possible anyone wants to see my video? If anyone wants their videos to get viewed, you can post it down below. (But i will not look at your video unless you look at mine and leave a comment saying you were there) Thank you!
lol   tongue   smile   big_smile   wink  ;D ~Namey <switch to costume[AWESOME

You'd do better off following the tips in the guide than to simply post here asking for views  smile

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2011-02-14 22:43:58)


"Human beings... must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Charlotte Brontë

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#112 2011-02-18 18:01:38

frank1281
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Registered: 2008-10-12
Posts: 100+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Thanks! This is a really good Guide! It really Helped Me! I Followed Your Advice, and Did a Link to my future game down Below!


http://i55.tinypic.com/309h9hi.jpg Your Job is to Take Everyone Down, Or Die Trying.
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#113 2011-02-18 20:43:53

kingofdallamas
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Registered: 2010-03-07
Posts: 500+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

uglidoll wrote:

TheSaint wrote:

I have three steps that one must follow to get a great project following. Works for me. No less than 30 comments, 20 love-its and 150 views on any of my projects.
3 Step Process:
1. Make a good, PROFESSIONAL project. Cannot believe how much good this does. People may not like your homade drawings unless you are like Maki-tak with great drawing skills If you arem't, I suggest spriters resource. Fix glitches, use non-annoying music, and give the project a good purpose. Make it look nearly as good as flash. Trust me, it works wonders on popularity.
2. After uploading, IMMEDIATLY add it to galleries. Example: You have a game like Space Invaders/Pheonix. Search for galleries such as "Alien" Add it to every single one that is actually related to alien. Now serach up Aliens, Alein, space, spaceships, shooter, retrogames, stars, missiles, lasers, outer space. Add it to all of those galleries. This helps a bucketload.
3. Post on Fourms, but Jonathonpb has that covered.

Just keep at it and eventually people will remeber you.  big_smile

how do you get/make professional sprites?

You can use professional sprite making websites, such as devianart.com or sprite resources.com. Hope this helps!


http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab99/Gilgamesh1192/Ninja%20Saga/ElementalJutsus2.gifhttp://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/BoomKaTish/GIF/thgfhgfhfhgf.gif
ハロー友だち!

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#114 2011-03-30 19:38:46

gnk2200
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Registered: 2009-10-23
Posts: 100+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Nice work, Jonathan! I like how detailed your tutorial is. It has a lot of info about how to get more views on your projects.  smile

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#115 2011-03-30 19:43:21

puppetadventurer
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Registered: 2011-02-20
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

helpful


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#116 2011-03-31 00:32:34

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

gnk2200 wrote:

Nice work, Jonathan! I like how detailed your tutorial is. It has a lot of info about how to get more views on your projects.  smile

Thanks  big_smile

puppetadventurer wrote:

helpful

Yay  big_smile


"Human beings... must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Charlotte Brontë

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#117 2011-03-31 01:26:36

Jonathanpb
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Registered: 2008-07-25
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Revised the guide... should revise the etiquette one someday.


"Human beings... must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Charlotte Brontë

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#118 2011-06-22 08:39:15

Hi9045
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Registered: 2010-05-23
Posts: 61

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Very nice! There are some things in here that I think some people don't really think could help, such has the meaningful comments. The icon suggestion is good, people will really ignore the project if theres not a good icon sometimes. Thanks for an awesome guide!


http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh154/inannales/Emoticons/pinocchio.gifhttp://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/lol.gif I poked you!  big_smile

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#119 2011-06-22 08:42:44

scimonster
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Registered: 2010-06-13
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Hi9045 wrote:

Very nice! There are some things in here that I think some people don't really think could help, such has the meaningful comments. The icon suggestion is good, people will really ignore the project if theres not a good icon sometimes. Thanks for an awesome guide!

Actually, I remember people who are nice.
I also made sure to create an icon before I became curator; it would really help my fame.  tongue  I changed it once since then, I added glasses. XD

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#120 2011-06-30 14:38:44

Alliance
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Registered: 2009-08-25
Posts: 500+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

I have recently got into Ad Services,  and they have got me more views and loveits.  I think that ad services draw in more views because you get more exposure in projects and galleries.  I even started my own ad service,  that you can sign up for if you want more views!  http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=66850


http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/180/0/f/alliance_sig_2_by_dystroyerx-d3kg8wv.png

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#121 2011-07-01 10:47:15

X13
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Registered: 2011-06-29
Posts: 53

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/X13/1895816


Scratch on!

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#122 2011-07-27 14:32:12

slinger
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Registered: 2011-06-21
Posts: 1000+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

pmpavc wrote:

Excellent!

yup


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#123 2011-07-27 14:46:23

witchartix
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Registered: 2011-07-27
Posts: 100+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

How did no one think of making something like this?

Great job! It must've taken you a while to write this up!

It is very informative and should give all the new members something to read and learn on.


Choo! Choo! All aboard the Moron Express!

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#124 2011-09-17 20:12:29

l0ve1y
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Registered: 2011-08-27
Posts: 100+

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

Thanks! I really wanted to know how to get my gallery popular!


http://www.tagmybffs.com/upics/v2l4v5b78olj3x.png

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#125 2011-09-26 08:56:30

mathis01
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Registered: 2011-09-26
Posts: 1

Re: ITopic: How to make your projects/galleries popular

hi gyus i really need help to get projects in my gallery.please can you help me?

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