I think the real secret is to write historical fiction touching on some of the same subjects that teachers like, and getting volunteered to be an unpaid contributor to the curriculum. We should have a contest where everyone writes about either the Titanic or the Donner Party, give you some competition. Or someone should write (an AMERICAN FRIENDLY) game about the Revolutionary War if they really want to reel the teachers in. Or something about the Civil War.
Maybe the Titanic game needs a reboot for modern audiences. A Titanic Experience: IT WAS GOOD EXPEARENS
But seriously I'm just glad these kids are reading at all, and I think a few of them ended up poking around the rest of the site.
As for the forums, yeah, the activity levels come and go. I wasn't being entirely serious with this thread, we have just been in a major slump the past couple months. Which tbf is pretty reflective of the majority of users being occupied with surviving college...or else being kids with hypercontrolling parents who have convinced them that they'll starve in a gutter if they ever get a B even before college. The number of kids who have had to sneak AROUND their parents to read or write as a hobby is depressingly hilarious.
Driving out the mentally ill furries, weebs, and eight year olds and enabling Steve to sandblast away the last of their influence I still stand by as a good and necessary thing, any unintended casualties aside. I don't think anyone would have liked the dark reality where they were allowed to breed down in the depths of Forum Games.
And we've had plenty of games and activities in the Creative Corner since then that stay on track with a little more oversight. End has taken teams through roleplaying games several times, Sent runs his big Blacksmith event now and then, and the Thunderdome duels have been mostly successful. If you've got the time you're more than welcome to drop in now and then and participate--in the Thunderdome threads for instance we've usually had plenty of writers, whether they're viable or not has more to do with voter activity. (And the Thunderdome in particular was created as an easy comm farming activity, which gives points...or people could also just do something crazy, like rate a storygame.)
