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hey guys, i wanted to give you some legitimate information on iGame. I'm sure many of you have heard of this new gaming service named "iGame". From what i've read on the forums there has been lots of disbelief that it exists. I wanted to let everyone know that iGame does exist. iGame is being devleoped by Triage Software, a new software development company for the Macintosh. I personally know the people developing it right now, and they are a great bunch of guys. You can visit their website at http://triage-software.com .

Let there be light.

Let the games begin...

Thanks Xoclipse ;)


** Goes off to prepare for his performance of "i told you so la la la" in a girly voice" **

Why don't you ask him? I for one won't be mentioning it on gameranger.

Nice, I for one thought it was a hoax  :-X

The page won't load for me. It says "page not found." Can anyone post the SS/info if availible?

I'm sure they will get out more info soon. I wonder how it's gonna be vs GR? Will it be fee or not?

I think whoever "founded" that company should have looked up the word Triage in a dictionary before naming their company after it.

?A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.

?A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.

?A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority: ?For millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry? (Jill Smolowe).

Not all that bad.

The others are queuing up behind you mate ;)

I have a feeling BFG had about as much knowledge of this as anyone else.

Latest news, I was just talking to one of the guys in charge and they are going to try to get AA 2.1 server hosting/joining to truely work off iGame GR. If they are doing stuff like this I think GR is going to have a run for their money...

I am still laughing at the website.... the type and the paragraphs are all over the place, silly things like a missing ":" on the last link on the contact page, perhaps i am being over critical and more down to the 5yrs of design work that I have done and see mistakes like this easily.

The site doesnt even work properly in Internet Explorer (even though i dont use that, but i know a lot of people do).

As for the name... if i split it down a little

Tri = 3 people behind this...
Age = for all ages?

btw, where are the screen shots?.

I doubt i will fully believe all this until it actually gets launched if it ever does, on the website it says started in early 2003, thats two years of development, hell, this thing should be able to make me coffee and stir it.

I am still laughing at you.

Where's the ":" ? Either your lieing or they fixed it, after all. It seems they never released this website from one of the owners and just a friend. Start using your 5 years of knowlage before your assumtions click in.

I too noticed the IE problem as well, i do hope they fix it. it would be nice to view it from my PC, yet again its seems its still being worked on.

As for the name? Who gives a rats ass on your definition, hell it could have a whole new meaning by itself. I dont know who the hell this company is nor need to sink low enough to misinterperate the name.

You have the sightest clue how much work goes into services like GameRanger, this shit doesnt happen overnight. And im sure the website is a gigantic bluff.  :o

Guest....

That was comical - mind you most posts that are posted under "guest" are pretty funny.
Suggestion you shut up untill you have actually had the experience of running this software on your computer.The work on iGame has been going on for a long time -  Nobody said it happened over night.

onwig 2 years for somthing like this between a small group of developers isn't that long - as for believing, you don't have to wait that long. - looks like the website needs some more work doing to it though i agree

BLAH!

Guest, at least have the nerve to log in as someone we know... why would i lie about something like that, and yes it appears to have been updated.


So now, no one can have an opinion?, loads of people seem to have opinions on gameranger, especially the way Evill runs it, I would hardly see my definition of the name as a problem, how was i misinterperating the name?, There is a company near where i live called Trimac ... it was called that because 3 people own it and it is a mac reseller.... no-where in my definition of the name was being low.... just read my post next time, and have the ball's to say who you are.

sry for the double post.....


Ok, take the contact page again, I will paste it this time before they change it, and you can not call me a liar again.

Questions, comments, suggestions, feedback, are more then welcomed. All emails will be read, but replys cannot be guaranteed.

now, to me this whole sentence reads wrong.

Questions, comments, suggestions and feedback are more than welcome. All emails will be read, but replys can not be guaranteed.

So, yeah the website needs work, if I can pick up on these things other people will.

Perhaps the application itself will be more important onwig.

- Onwig also just remember we're brits - its comes natural to us (well it should, im just a retard) i know for a fact that not all the development team are brits so it would hard to expect everything to be in perfect english ;)

Then again like myst says - wait til you see the app - It really is pretty sweet :)

Objection:

BFG = BLAH!

The iGame section is up... limited info, but they seem to be moving along..  ;D

http://www.triage-software.com/igame/

Anybody here who's going to beta-test it ?
BFG perhaps  ;).

PS BFG will it be a  "homer" style dance , with tiptoeing and giggling ?

Well the version i did use was a very very early version... id love to see how its changed though.

Yes most definatly homer style, giggling is paramount but i shall be also looking to include little touches of finger dancing while pirouetting on my tootsies ;) Still trying find an alternative to castrating myself though for the desired pitch of girly voice when the singing commences ;)

Are the guys who's making this from within this community?


How's life BFG ol' buddy ol' pal. Anything I can get you? Just let me know, and merry christmas and a happy new year  ;)

Don't pay attention to him BFG, he's just using you. But seriously, if there is anything I can do for you. My family has connections in the British Gov. I could make life a little bit easier for you. Anyone you need killed?

Scissors? Or try giving a mate a lot to drink and tie your "trouser snake" to the bathroom door(with piano strings or guitar strings) and hope that he really really really has to go. That should do the trick(and in case you only mean your balls, then thats gonna work too)

lol... i see they changed the contact page again

Hello there, I am a developer from Triage Software, I am here to say that community and providing a good service is our utmost goal, this is a small note as I do not have much time at the moment, but I would like to ask to the community of *DAMN what features you find important, what you would like to see, and any other miccellanious things you like.  Now is your chance to make a difference in the way this program works!

However we will only reply constructive questions.

Last evening I rewrote the chat system, here is a screenshot, custom emotions and themes are also supported.

(http://triage-software.com/img/iGameShot.jpg)

Enjoy.

I really wonder how this app is gonna turn out, though it will give an alternative, it will still have a really hard time competiting with GameRanger.

Oh and a question, have you guys thought about how the webview is on slow machines? It won't update that fast, and won't be able to handle big chats like the construct or B&G. And the webview makes this app only workable on 10.3.x and up. It won't work on 10.1 nor 10.2.

Oh and onwig, it's "replies".

Features....

It has been said (with some truth even) that a business will not succeed unless it has a nitch.   What is your nitch, because an alternative to GameRanger, however noble is not a nitch.

What is a nitch you may ask?   Being the first is by nature a nitch.   Im not sure what your nitch is, I do hope you have one.

One thing could sort of be considered a nitch and not ALL that costly is to host a few of the games you propose to bring people in for.  Scott Kevill puts this on the backs of his users.

As for features, I can think of one that would be cool.   Call it the "honor Dual"

Basically this would take the ebay model of a "transaction" and turn it into an agreed upon DUAL, for which a winner would pronounced (perhaps by a neutral third party) the winner would gain a point (rating) the loser would lose a point.   And feedback could be left on both sides.

I think that would be sweet and could be the equiv to AA's "honor"

I was playing AA the other day and I was thinking how insultingly rude the players are to each other.  Then I recalled the GhostREcon days where after every game nearly every player acknowledged the enemy by saying GG, or NT or whatever.   There is a good deal of good will in the mac community (and some ill-will).   And I think it would be interesting to try to incorporate that into a chat program.


I want to RE-present some business model ideas that you might be well advised to pursue...

If you want to bring in a VERY large mac chat community to your company you might look into working with AOL and its instant messenger program.   AOL is in serious financial dumps because it is losing its customer base to broadband.  Subsequentially, they are trying anything they can to maintain the value of their stock, this is where Triage might come in.....you see if you can add an additional service to AOL, that cost them little to nothing they might be willing to work with you.   What would really put thing s over the top is if they could do a similar thing with PC users.  Using the argument of the growing demand for online gaming, I think AOL could be all ears.

There is another factor here:   GameSpy is apparently trying to drop Mac support for AA, leaving a mac community desiring an alternative.   (I found it very interesting Scott Kevill was 'previewing' a well overdue version of PC GameRanger right at the same time GameSpy is rumored of dropping Mac support.)   It should would be a financial coup for anyone to win a contract to support AA for macs.  It seems there is some business potential to tie in AA, AOL IM, and a mac Gaming community devloper and If I had any sort of money to invest I would pursue it myself (Because this business of net-gaming is in it's infancy).

Of course you could try to involve software companies playing one versus the others.  For example if Aspyr highhats you, go to one of the smaller aspiring ones...and look for assistance: promotion of their company vs. finacial or technical help.



My 32 cents.

And we still do, without fail ;)

Honour system sounds entreaging but i have no idea how you you would implement it... btw are you aware of the "Karma" feature on the forums etc?

Nevermind the website loaded.  One thing I'd like to see is what and how games will be supported in iGame.  Will it be auto-Ip joining like Gameranger does it, implementing iGame into the game somehow, or something else.  The Chat Window looks really clutterd to me, I don't want to have 20 little rectangle windows.  Also, when is the beta test and how the hell did SanitarySal get such a large avatar?


Cheers,
::beer::
one

WHAT ABOUT THE ROGUE SPEAR DAYS HUNH?! WHO REMEMBERS THOSE?!

Rogue Spear?  What is this Rogue Spear?   ???

I am sure the Rogue Spear days were just as friendly, but i didnt play that in MP mode.  I was however kick ass and hosting the multiplayer mode of Ghost Recon as early as December 2002 and it was typically more cordial than your average AA game.

I dont know how I got this big avatar, but I kind of like it.    

BFG, I have no familiarity with the Karma feature, but I think you mean in relation to the honor feature I was speaking of.

Honor was a kickass idea by the AA people.   It kind of squashed the whole "noob" calling bickering that goes on on GameRanger.   On AA you dont have noobs calling vets a noob just because they havnt logged in in awhile.

That's 'cause GR people think only the ones who've been here since the Civil War are leet.

Crypt, just cause the north won doesn't mean that you have to be bitter. We're just a superior race, thats all.

We so coulda won that war if that dumbass soldier hadn't killed Stonewall.

From the way things are going in this country, you might another chance.

Cmon Crypt, go for round two.  We (Kitsap County, in Washington State) have more than enough nukes to blow the entire south back into the protoplasmic-stage.

(Random factoid: After the U.S and Russia, Kitsap County, where i live, is the third largest nuclear power in the world.  ph33r.)

I agree with what Daf One said, that looks -really- cluttered to me.  Would drive me nuts if the text was streaming by as fast as it sometimes does in the B&G.

Perhaps a fullscreen screen-shot would better help us to understand what is there, and what isnt, since apparently so many changes have been made since the first SS was released in the interim forums.