Hamster Wheel Changes

In the beginning, it was my intention to make The Hamster Wheel the centralized place for all things pertaining to the OHRRPGCE. I tried this years ago with The Hamster Wheel 1.0 and it ultimately became too much for me to handle. I brought the site back in its current form last year in hopes of trying it again.

The sad truth is that I will never be able to devote as much time as I'd like to make this site everything I want it to be. But the more I think about it, all of the content I intended to add here would be better suited on the official OHRRPGCE wiki anyways.

Having said that, The Hamster Wheel is not going away for good, but from now on it will only cover reviews and previews. I still thoroughly enjoy reviewing and previewing OHRRPGCE games, and it is a work load that I can definitely handle by myself. The Hamster Wheel will still be the host of the yearly Top 15/30 OHRRPGCE games as well.

In short, The Hamster Wheel is now solely focusing on reviews and previews. I still hope to have every OHRRPGCE game, no matter how horrible or incomplete, reviewed on this site one day. Please continue to request reviews and previews of OHRRPGCE games by contacting me here. I enjoy revisiting games that I reviewed in the past, so those will be considered if requested too.

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Cornbread Chemist

Review anything of mine you desire, I'd just be interested in reading thy reviews again. I kept forgetting to ask you about this thing since you got back, I was actually going to send you a PM about it during your recent disappearance.

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That seems like a good idea; I would agree that the wiki is the best place for linking to articles and archiving contests and so on. But is it the best place to put up pages for thousands of games and authors? Certainly everyone is welcome to create pages on the wiki for their pages and themselves (use your user page for that).

But I still think a dedicated site for a gamelist is better if we just want to list the basic sort of information you have on your game pages, at http://hamsterwheel.mocbjsoftware.com/games/. Such as the extensive list of links for Vikings of Midgard. It's clear why you no longer link to these game pages, but I think they have useful information that I'd like to see transferred to some other site.

Way back when you re-launched the site I meant to ask about the reviews. You added a whole lot all at once. Are they from the original HamsterWheel site? If so, are they all the reviews from the original site?

By the way, I like your reviews and think it's really great that you've written so many and archived them all in one place.

You might like to update the description at http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Community_Links

Also, maybe you could put a link in the header or elsewhere for the Top X lists?

Cool, I'll keep that in mind.



I agree. Even though the link is missing from the site menu, I intend to keep those articles active until I find another place to store/transfer them.



The bulk of the very first reviews were definitely ones I had written on the previous site, and on CP/SS/HS. At least 1/3 of them were written around the time the site launched the second time.



I'll update that and great idea on the Top X link. I'll be working on that as well.

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Cornbread Chemist

I like the site redesign!

Do you have any plans to ever host reviews by other people?

Thanks, and not a bad idea regarding third party reviews. I suppose I should offer links to the other reviews at the very least.

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Cornbread Chemist

What do you mean by "the other reviews"? Adding a link to a review if someone emails to ask for it?

EDIT: I suggest writing "Reviews of incomplete games" rather than "Incomplete Reviews", which confused me.

Good catch on the incomplete review thing. Fixed! Not sure what you are referring to by "the other reviews" though. Let me know.

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Cornbread Chemist

I mean