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Subject: Publishers and Panties: An appeal to review my game, Forumwarz. Dear Brian Crecente, My name is Robin Ward, I go by the alias Evil Trout. (this is an open letter, also published on the Forumwarz blog.) I’m the creator of a web-based RPG game called Forumwarz. It parodies the Internet. Instead of traditional RPG games where you might play a thief in a dungeon battling orcs, you play an Internet user, pwning message boards. We currently have about 100k accounts, and a small (yet awesome) community. It’s an indie effort. It was self-financed and made over the period of several years by a team of people working for very little money. To say it’s a labor of love is a huge understatement. ...

We get all sorts of interesting emails through the “Contact Us” form here on Forumwarz. Sometimes I even get hundreds of emails saying “EVIL TROUT IS A .” Earlier this week, I got the following email (I’ve edited out the boring parts but I promise I didn’t remove anything important to their message): From: Blog Writer Subject: Marketing Op Hey ForumWarz, Apologies for the cold-calling. I’m (name removed), and I’m co-manager and advertising lead over at a media company known as ‘The Three Rs’. Our main site/blog over at Reviews, Rants and Randomness attracts around everywhere from 10,000 to 55,000 hits a day from our global audience. Many of these views consist of a loyal readerbase, whilst attracting referrals from enterprises such as The Escapist Magazine, PC Gamer (UK) and ABC as well as our continuous close work with sites in the Gawker Media network (Kokatu and Gawker Artists respectively) [update from ET - see bottom of this post]. So, you know our credentials; what do we want from you? ...