Daily rankings and news

First up, the daily rankings snapshot  (live version here, thanks Sid):

(My brain isn’t functioning so well this morning…).  Oh, and that AngelBlade result was actually Bin playing for Bryan.  And is thus STRIKEN from the record.

Everything still seems to be going well.  I’m feeling pretty good about Synapse’s addictiveness now, and the next thing I want to keep an eye on is the longevity.  If we see people like Archa and Xeno continue to play at this level for a month then I’ll be very pleased, but if not then I need to investigate what causes a drop-off, and what I can do about it.  That and new-player-to-multiplayer-player conversion are the issues I’m most concentrating on at the moment.

But quite apart from that, we need more players.  In the next couple of weeks I’m going to be asking all of our current beta testers to post on forums they frequent to ramp up some serious numbers (I’d like to see 50 – 100).  But, don’t do it quite yet people.  There’s one crucial technology Synapse needs before that and that’s an in-game IRC client.  I believe social contact with current players will be essential to converting new players to multiplayers, and in-game IRC will achieve that.  JamesU is working on it as we speak – go go Gadget Mango!

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7 Responses to “Daily rankings and news”

1. Xeno:

   § August 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

   I know what will cause a drop off in my playing soon: school

2. Ian:

   § August 30th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

   I’ll try and take “school” into account as a variable

3. Steve D:

   § August 30th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

   I should be on playing multiplayer tomorrow. In the time I’ve had I’ve been playing a nice bit of the single player maps though I’m sure I will fail when I go online.

4. Archa:

   § August 30th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

   Online is actually easier. People are more predictable.
   I also have that “school” variable coming soon, but i think i can spare some time every day. Thats the good thing about synapse. No need to play it too much to still stay in the rankings.

5. Xeno:

   § August 31st, 2009 at 2:28 pm

   One thing that might help with the “school” variable, allow people to invite people who aren’t currently online (that also helps for cross-timezone play)

6. Ian:

   § August 31st, 2009 at 2:29 pm

   You can do that! Just type their names into the box. It works even if they’re offline.

7. LK:

   § August 31st, 2009 at 9:17 pm

   You don’t even need to type their name in. Just click on their names on the right.

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