Looking for a few indie game developers for a pilot project...

[whisperstorm]

I work at a company called Raptr. One of our goals is to provide a means for new and upcoming games to get visibility on our network, as well as other interesting game developer related features. I'm fishing for a few indie game developers who would be willing to talk about their needs in this area, as well as possibly participate in a pilot project.

Here's some example Raptr pages:

http://raptr.com/game/PC/Cave_Story
http://raptr.com/game/Flash/Desktop_Tower_Defense

Here's our "about" page:

http://raptr.com/info/about

please contact me either via PM, reply here, or directly at andrew at raptr dot com.

I've been an indie gamer for years, and my heart is to find a way to get upcoming games more visibility and give developers a place to build a community around their games... We're just starting out so you have a chance to help shape that.

[Jason Chong]

Very interesting website, reminds me of Twitter or something.

What do you need from indie game developers?

[OremLK]

So it's kind of like Steam, minus the DRM/distribution platform and with a little more social/web 2.0 functionality? Is there any cost to developers or players? How will you monetize the service?

I like the idea.

[Musenik]

I've had two bad experiences with the Raptr system. Twice now, members who joined had their email lists used to send out spam. I know because I was spammed with 'Your friend wants you to join!'. When I asked those two friends, they both said it was an accident. Now I'm not happy about a site that allows accidental spamming of member's email lists.

I won't claim that this is a malicious set up on Raptr's system, but it annoyed me enough to refrain from ever visiting Raptr.