I dunno, I guess people get sick of the site once they spend every day on it. And then they leave. And come back. It's addiction! I like that a lot of people have left though.
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A crumbling city in a post-apocalypse wasteland, where the dreams of mortals are etched into clay.
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i mean, some days ago i was wondering what if TDC would disappear? i mean, here are active all the clickers. TDC is like a big city...if this would go, where would we post our works and discuss? nowhere...
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Originally Posted by OldManClayton Originally Posted by BrandonC Why is it always the new members that love it, but the exact opposite effect seems to be happening on the veterans?
Feel free to go if you hate it that much.
I do, but like Hayo... continue coming back. Its fascinating, cause I just don't understand why. It's rather annoying, really.
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Registered 05/06/2008
Points 21
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I nearly made an acoholics anonymous joke then... not entirely sure why.
I can't remember how long i've been here for but i still like it here.
I joined a couple of months ago but I've visited this site quite often for the past 6 years or so. I watched Natomic, FAIND, and Darksun die out but I am very happy I still have the TDC.
I was here for a few years but every once in a while I tried to join and it gave me some sort of VBScript error. O_o I must say that TDC seemed alot bigger before I joined. Like one of those weird houses that doesn't look the same size inside as it does outside. O_o
Alot of good games have come out of this site. Subzero Conditions, Fig, Tarmak, Final Vision and many others. I do wish there were more two player joypad games though. I really enjoyed War 2099 and that Double Dragon game I played a while back.
Lol, my test yesterday was on quantitative analysis and leadership. I studied the quantitative analysis for that massive 0 star thread and studied leadership for the massive article that I posted and didn't study anything else in the course. What surprise! I love TDC too for giving me good grades!
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Like most communities, they all fall into a specific number of people after they've existed beyond their hay-day. I think we can call this the terminal user count, because as far as I know it doesn't have an actual name. Naturally this terminal user count fluctuates as time goes on, and is effected by a complex network of variables. TDC's terminal user count was never truly high because even when it was popular, people still commented about how they didn't very much like the place, but the band-wagon phase (Point in which the existence of the community causes an unusually high amount of excitement about being apart of it) lasted a bit longer then we all expected it to, leaving us to believe the community is dying. In reality, it's just finally fallen into it's place.
Originally Posted by BrandonC Like most communities, they all fall into a specific number of people after they've existed beyond their hay-day. I think we can call this the terminal user count, because as far as I know it doesn't have an actual name. Naturally this terminal user count fluctuates as time goes on, and is effected by a complex network of variables. TDC's terminal user count was never truly high because even when it was popular, people still commented about how they didn't very much like the place, but the band-wagon phase (Point in which the existence of the community causes an unusually high amount of excitement about being apart of it) lasted a bit longer then we all expected it to, leaving us to believe the community is dying. In reality, it's just finally fallen into it's place.
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Nice way to put it.
*BrandonC gets a "creative words" gold star*
Let us not forget, too, that MMF and its family of products is relatively little-known. It's a surprisingly large community, all things accounted for, if you ask me.
Terminal user count sounds like a term used to describe the user count when the community is dead
I'd say yeah, the community is in a happy balance. Life tends to balance itself out in the end, the same goes for website communities. It was a bit overbloated back in the olde days.. I think Construct has actually helped pull out a lot of the angry people who actually made games and TIGSource grabbed the people who wanted to talk about making games.
Now, it's nice, the way TDC was intended to be. A place where people could make games, download games that people made, and ask for help on it. The forums are a bit less active than before, but the activity on the Downloads page is fluctuating nicely.
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I think the reason activity had died down from around 2001 is that quite a lot of members were around the same age and have simply grown out of it. When you start getting to the age where you're starting a family and/or have a full time job, you just can't find the time for clicking.
Originally Posted by AndyUK I think the reason activity had died down from around 2001 is that quite a lot of members were around the same age and have simply grown out of it. When you start getting to the age where you're starting a family and/or have a full time job, you just can't find the time for clicking.
Indeed. That was the clicking heyday. Even now, with new people getting interested, the recruitment levels are alot lower. And you know, some people may have gone on to make real games. When was the last time a Wii or Xbox game was made in MMF? Hmmm?
Brandon love the avatar btw, great Scott!
I believe that if clickteam and its products get more popular, so will the click community sites around them.
I think I have mentioned this in the timelines but when the site was in the beginning stages we had about 3 visitors a day. The forum activity was actually so low i went in there under 3 fake names and started a conversation with myself hoping people would join in (shees was i a little sneaky there
Also since no1 was uploading any games in the beginning I often would search the internet for games and then submit them myself to this site as i did with the old ap-zone site.
Point being is I am extremely proud of what the site has become today and that the old time users (willing or not, lol) are still feeling the urge to come back to the place to see whats going on.
There are still lots of new member sbeing registerd but not all the new folks are posting on the forums or making comments, they are downloading stuff however and checking everything out. Times will keep changing and so will people it is just a good feeling to know that when everything is said and done this site will still be here offering what it does best, great games, articles, projects and great people, either now or 5 years from now.
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Originally Posted by AndyUK I think the reason activity had died down from around 2001 is that quite a lot of members were around the same age and have simply grown out of it. When you start getting to the age where you're starting a family and/or have a full time job, you just can't find the time for clicking.
I recognize that problem from my homeforum at martin2k.co.uk/forums, we're all old enough to work fulltime therefore we don't have time to bother anymore.
I mean I'm a phone salesman and will also be starting my own business next year, ontop of that I have a girlfriend and a band.
Your just jealous that you're not as awesome as me.
(And my megaman avatar )
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Registered 05/06/2008
Points 21
20th October, 2008 at 12:26:29 -
I guess i like TDC because most of the users here (and yes i do mean MOST) are very professional... some are a little goofy but i'm not pointing any fingers.
And some are Professionally Goofy.
The some of the most are just a bunch of underaged morons, now i would point fingers but i just can't stand another flame war.>.<
And with Liam as the new admin around here i'm sure Professional Goofiness will go through the roof!
I come here once in awhile and just lurk, no posts really. It keeps on popping into my head "oh I wonder what's new on TDC" and there always is. Have yet to actually make a game and do a compo, too heartbreaking to remember losing all my projects years ago in a hardrive malfunction.
I Click the Daily Click almost Daily! Tho I don't post very often. The site really gets better all the time. Better games, better reviews, better forums (people seem to be getting nicer) ... and Klikcast! Keep up the great work guys!
I don't want to kill you. ^^
Haha, I haven't really posted anything that I made other than 2 engines, but I think that I am actually a good programmer and sprite artist.
Now I'm going to make something and post it, THEN YOU WILL ALL BOW DOWN TO ME!
Oh and.. If Rikus is my fake account, and I am BrandonC's then... Were does this leave -Adam-
Your just jealous that you're not as awesome as me.
(And my megaman avatar )
I've almost completely left TDC now, using Scirra as my new home. But i still go here every day checking for new games. But i never write in the forums. (ooups..)
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yeah i am here for almost 1 month, but people here are pleasant and cool too 
*go TDC!*
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