How do we spread the word on what a great game this is?

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A very popular advertising tool these days is viral marketing. (on the applied memetics tech area=-)

All you have to come up with a good meme: A good example are those entertaining little games and mpegs that fly from person to person around the office all day. The only rules for a good viral marketing meme are: It has to be simple, entertaining, and it has to fit into a few hundred kb.

Once created, all you do is release it into the wild. (ie us lot=-) We'll email it to our friends. If it's entertaining enough, they will want to email it to their friends, who email it to their friends, who mail it to their friends...

Viral marketing is cheap and effective. A good campaign can reach tens of thousands of bored office workers in a single day, and thousands more (exponentially) the next day... Eventually it will reach saturation and stop propogating itself, but a lot of ppl will have seen your message (and had som fun in the process=-)

I would suggest a little java/ flash game using a selection of SEIV's images. (ie the mini gfx or the race portraits etc) Space invaders, reversi, connect 4 or something. Have a big advert for SEIV on the title screen, and maybe the option to download new graphics or somthing from the website.

Note that the use of the word "viral" does not mean that you are creating a "virus" - or at least, not the kind that anti-virus software is concerned with. (In othr words, this is entirely ethical.) Anyone who doesn't already know about all this, put in a few websearches for "meme", "memetics" or "viral marketing".

Thoughts?

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