Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:15:03 +0000
From: "Phil O'Neill" ([email protected])
Subject: Link
Dear Ken
I've got my page on the 'net, from Sunday 9th June '96.
Could you provide a link saying something like:
Ransom, Sensored & Toilet Humour
or
Phil O'Neill Games on Cyberisland
or
Lone, Mad Inventor on Island in England
or
Mad Cowes, and other places on the Isle of Wight, England
or
something?
The page will be at:
http://www.cyberisland.co.uk/games
Cheers,
Phil
Phil O'Neill Games
[email protected]
1 Birmingham Road
Cowes
Isle of Wight
PO31 7BH
England
Tel +44 (0) 1983 280666
Fax +44 (0) 1983 280777
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:11:10 -0500
From: [email protected] (philip orbanes)
Subject: Link?
Hi Ken,
You said that you provide free links to non-commerical sites, and ad-links to commerical sites. I guess that means you consider the Winning Moves site to be a commercial site since Winning Moves is a commercial company. Makes sense.
However, as far as the WWW is concerned, we plan to be about as non-commercial as possible:
1. WMI will never charge for services.
2. The WMI site does and will continue to offer links to any game-related
site of worthy caliber.
3. The WMI site will offer archive info about games (WMI games and others)
and game-developement in general. (I'm working on a how-a-game-is-made
sub-site that will illustrate, interactively, the steps it takes to make a
game.)
4. The WMI site will offer access to photos, sounds and text from
associated proffesionals for non-commerical use. The first two sub-sites
will be:
4a. The Alex Randolph gameography: texts, photos, illustrations and variant
rules from Alex's many games (99% of which are non-Winning Moves
productions).
4b. The Tracey Wheeler photo-gallery. Tracey has done most of the Winning
Moves photography. Her non-WMI photo-artwork will be sampled and provided
in a virtual-gallery.
5. The WMI site offers free-intereactive activites:
5a. The first is JUDGE 'n' JURY online.
5b. The second will be an on-line, multi-player version of RAJ.
Finally, as you astutely observed, getting a start-up company on its feet and running is a very difficult process. Any help from the gaming community (real and virtual) is of immense help.
I can understand your position as regards links to commercial sites. However, even a brief mention of Winning Moves and a non-linked URL (http:www.winning-moves.com) would be of immense help to us: more than half of the Emails I get through our web site make mention of The Game Cabinet. I asked my webmaster to add a link to your site yesterday. It should be in effect before the end of this week!
Thanks for taking the time to write back, Ken.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Best regards, Philip Orbanes Manager of Product Development Winning Moves, Inc.
Sorry, Phils, can't do it.
What meager income the Game Cabinet gathers comes from advertising. I have a policy of being paid for links to commercial sites but will gladly link to non-commercial sites that I feel would be of interest to the Game Cabinet's readers. In a perfect world the Game Cabinet would cost nothing to produce or I would have such a stellar income level that the ad income would be unimportant.
As things stand, the expenses are small and the income even smaller.
Why things are so bad round here that all we've got for snacks is a little pinch of tongue between our cheek and gum...
ken