WIP Make the forums active again

[OssieTheOstrich]

The first part of this post is just gonna be about the possibly of increasing the traffic. The second part is just me making a observation.

First part: a pretty random idea for how to possibly bring more traffic (and by extension, activity to the forums); Collaborate with fangaming content creators on places like YouTube and Twitter/X to promote the place and it's various fangames?
Doing promotion of the forums directly instead of the main site has a bit of a advantage; You can see the development and cataloging of current projects as a guest, and play the games when a release comes out without waiting for the site staff to QA it first.
By the way, the guest thing is something the MFGG Discord can't really do (granted you can make spur of the moment Discord account but still).

Second part: The development of lumaSMS (and merging the forums and main site into one cohesive site to submit games and discuss them) would probably be a good idea in the long term. Provided work gets done on it.

List of projects I eventually plan to finish after the indefinite hiatus is over, assuming I don't abruptly cancel them:

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Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy (Mario's slightly unusual Boss Rush (Completed), Mario vs. Some Unusual Foes (In development), Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier (In development))
Sonic's Foray into Random/Unusual Zones (spin-off of Unusual Trilogy, in development)
Angry Birds Slingshot Frenzy (In development)
Super Mario Flashback: Really Good Edition (In development)
Super Hilda DX (In only conceptual phase)

Yes, I am aware that I have about 6 or so fangame projects currently in development at the same time. And yes, I am also aware that all of this is very ambitious.

+ List of projects I'm helping out with in some small capacity during my hiatus:

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Super Mario Bros Dimensions 2 (as a spriter, only for Mario's sprites)
MFGG Community Fangame Project 3 (as a spriter)
WordGirl ReWired (as a artist)