New Release: Premium Passes & Road Map
New release of the site today.
The two main features are Premium Passes and Road Map.
Premium Passes are now available for purchase. For a small fee they grant the user access to extra content and functionality on the site, including extra games, above and beyond what is available to a regular visitor. What's available to a regular visitor is now called Basic, and the stuff you pay for is called Premium.
There's also now a Road Map page which is basically a list of features or ideas we're thinking of adding in future releases. With the highest priority or near-term priority items at the top.
We've suspended the ability for visitors to sign up as free Beta Testers, at least for now. We haven't closed that program, just putting the brakes on it. Existing Beta Test accounts will be preserved and usable. We did this for 3 reasons.
One, for the folks that just want to browse, get a taste of the site, and sample a game or two, we're actually making it easier to do that because you won't need to sign up for a Beta Tester account to do that. You simply click around and sample what we have on offer, no forms or typing necessary.
Two, for the folks that really want to play games, there's now a way to pay us for that ability, whereas before there wasn't. This is more fair to us, lets us take a first step down the path to monetization and one day breaking even or better. We'll always be adding more games, and improving and expanding the ones we already have, but for the folks that like something we have now enough there's now a way for us to hopefully make a little money in exchange for providing it to you.
Three, the absence of a monetization model has until now been our biggest negative, and we wanted to cross it off our list of TODO items, so we can move forward with other things. Like add more games, improve existing games, do more and better advertising, conversion optimization, and also to possibly switch ZodLogic Games back into more of a part-time, passivated mode while I go back to doing consulting or regular employment in order to help replenish savings and regain that safety net. It's hard but not impossible to do both sorts of things at the same time, but the easier you can make it on yourself -- by having critical functionality completed and by having massive automation -- the better.
And the fourth of the three reasons I said existed was that I want to make some changes to how playtesting is done for the site, and the functionality and context I need to implement my vision just isn't in place yet. We'll re-introduce it once the next incarnation is ready. In the meantime, we'll treat existing Beta Testers approximately like Premium Pass holders of indefinite duration. We may change that in the future, but again, we're not ready yet.
Feel free to check out the site and give feedback, as usual.
thanks!
Mike
ZodLogic Games
The two main features are Premium Passes and Road Map.
Premium Passes are now available for purchase. For a small fee they grant the user access to extra content and functionality on the site, including extra games, above and beyond what is available to a regular visitor. What's available to a regular visitor is now called Basic, and the stuff you pay for is called Premium.
There's also now a Road Map page which is basically a list of features or ideas we're thinking of adding in future releases. With the highest priority or near-term priority items at the top.
We've suspended the ability for visitors to sign up as free Beta Testers, at least for now. We haven't closed that program, just putting the brakes on it. Existing Beta Test accounts will be preserved and usable. We did this for 3 reasons.
One, for the folks that just want to browse, get a taste of the site, and sample a game or two, we're actually making it easier to do that because you won't need to sign up for a Beta Tester account to do that. You simply click around and sample what we have on offer, no forms or typing necessary.
Two, for the folks that really want to play games, there's now a way to pay us for that ability, whereas before there wasn't. This is more fair to us, lets us take a first step down the path to monetization and one day breaking even or better. We'll always be adding more games, and improving and expanding the ones we already have, but for the folks that like something we have now enough there's now a way for us to hopefully make a little money in exchange for providing it to you.
Three, the absence of a monetization model has until now been our biggest negative, and we wanted to cross it off our list of TODO items, so we can move forward with other things. Like add more games, improve existing games, do more and better advertising, conversion optimization, and also to possibly switch ZodLogic Games back into more of a part-time, passivated mode while I go back to doing consulting or regular employment in order to help replenish savings and regain that safety net. It's hard but not impossible to do both sorts of things at the same time, but the easier you can make it on yourself -- by having critical functionality completed and by having massive automation -- the better.
And the fourth of the three reasons I said existed was that I want to make some changes to how playtesting is done for the site, and the functionality and context I need to implement my vision just isn't in place yet. We'll re-introduce it once the next incarnation is ready. In the meantime, we'll treat existing Beta Testers approximately like Premium Pass holders of indefinite duration. We may change that in the future, but again, we're not ready yet.
Feel free to check out the site and give feedback, as usual.
thanks!
Mike
ZodLogic Games
posted by Mike Kramlich / ZodLogic at 7:01 PM
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