RE: Where to now?

It is said there are two barriers you need to overcome to sell anything. Communication and trust. As you have no doubt discovered, advertsing is very expensive and it only really overcomes the communications barrier. Putting up a website only half solves the problem of communication. People have to know that it is there. But even if you get the word out that it is there, people have to have a reason to trust that they will be happy with the product once they buy it.

What I have done is to to send copies of my game to about 25 people from major games magazines and web sites around the world for review. I actually recruited these people by putting a posting on SpielFrieks and rec.games.board asking for experienced games reviewers. Befor I posted my request I had already made up a list of people I was going to approach and the post was really to gather a few extras. Within a day, most of the people on my list had responded and offered to review the game.

I cannot guarantee that they will review it, nor that they will give it a positive review if they do, but I do have confidence that the game has appeal to at least a proportion of people, so I think I will get some positive reviews. My position is that so long as the reviewers are fair, I don