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Fatal Frame: the Link Game Sunday / 11.18.07 / 02:30PM / Joe / comments: 3
Last week I checked my fourhman.com stats and was surprised to see November 2007 pageviews tracking to best October 2007 by a wide margin, and the month was only half over. I had over 130,000 views in October and as of last week, November had already posted over 100,000. It's always fun to see your pageviews jump like that, but you kinda want to know why.
Unfortunately, my DreamHost stats' section on referring URLs gets too bogged down with Google image results to be of much use (for years I was the top hit for an image search on "waffles") so until today when I checked my Technorati links, I had no idea where all the traffic was headed. And it seems to be all coming mostly from Game|Life's quickie on Fatal Frame: the Card Game. It's interesting, because it's not like Fatal Frame: the Card Game is a new thing... it just somehow popped up on the radar and enjoyed a week of getting passed around.
Here's some grabs from the sites I discovered through Technorati, and some happy-to-do-it links back.
 11/05/07 - Between the Bits, John Hummel's weblog. You know, I would consider a trip to PAX if I knew there was some kind of Fatal Frame card game thing going on. If anybody wants to see the game in action at next year's Origins, let me know.
 11/06/07 - Game|Life, You know, Wired's gaming weblog? I've made Kotaku and GameSetWatch and other weblogs before, but landing Wired is pretty damn cool. Of course, I'm humilated that they used a graphic of one of my cards without the proper font... I'm still pissed about that. What kind of free font lets you use it everywhere but not embed it in a PDF?
 11/07/07 - polygamia, a Polish gaming website. Look at the cool custom card fan image they made!
 11/12/07 - Random Linkage, a weblog devoted to nothing but daily website recommendations.
 11/13/07 - blog.skagirlie.net, Maire Kruppa's weblog.
This just makes me want to work on the 15-card expansion set more. So far, my favorite new card is "Disorienting Shadows," an action card that effectively blocks an exterior location for the rest of the game. Although the big question mark is "Chitose's Bell," an Item that I'm trying to shoehorn into the game as a counterspell. The problem is philosophical; "Chitose's Bell" would be the only thing in the game that you "do" when it isn't your turn and I'm not sure if I like that. |
Sexy Videogameland also had a mention on Nov. 3.
Thanks for the tip. Bizarre how things like this work.
By the way, glad to see Game Couch is back up!
Thanks, it's working better now that I'm not trying to corral other writers.