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You want a QB Expo Sponsor to Design Your Page.

All right, you're interested in getting a QB Expo sponsor to design your page. At this point it would have been really cool to have a little web form that you fill out containing all the pertinent information about your project that you want to send. Unfortunately, due to time constraints and my own incompetence (I don't know how to make such an applet), you're going to have to fill a form from a text document like Notepad or Wordpad.

Using the text document utility of your choice, open form.txt. You should see the words QB Expo Sponsor Form (DO NOT SEND TO PRINTER) if form.txt is opened correctly. Now, fill out the form as follows:

1. Name/Psudeoname

Name/Psuedoname: _______________________________

Replace the long blank with your name or the name you call yourself on the Internet

Examples: (Name/Psuedoname: fishstix) (Name/Psuedoname: John Doe)

2. Choose a Sponsor

Mark with an "X" inside the box of the QB Expo Sponsor that you want to design your website. If it doesn't matter to you who designs your QB Expo page, check the box marked "No preferrence, any sponsor can design my page." 

Example:

[ ] V Planet! Quickbasic Magazine
[ ] Future Software
[ ] Programming Oasis
[ ] Abyssware Studios
[ ] Clockwerk Productions
[X] Dark Legends Software
[ ] Master Creating
[ ] Neozones Productions
[ ] Picker's Games Website

[ ] No preferrence, any sponsor can design my page.

3. Expo Involvement

How much do you want to oversee the development of your project? Mark an "X" inside the box for the amount of responsibility you prefer.

Example:

[X] I want to see how my Expo page looks like and "ok" it before it is
    launched.
[ ] I just want to send my project to the Sponsor; I'm not interested
    in overseeing the webpage as it is being developed.

4. Game Information

The information you fill out here will be the same information that will be printed on your Expo page. If one of these items doesn't apply to you, simply leave it blank.

Example:

Game Title: Wetspot 4
Name of Game Company/Coding Group: Enhanced Creations
Website URL: http://ec.neozones.com
E-mail: ec@neozones.com
Genre: Puzzle/Adventure Game
Number of Players (if applicable): 2
Release Date: February 2001

5. Game Summary

Write, in at least three paragraphs, a description of your game that you want printed in your Expo page in the space provided below (complete sentences).

Example:

Cuby and Coby are back in Enhanced Creation's latest installment of the Wetspot franchise. In Wetspot 4, the evil lobsters have kidnapped Princess Cabbage and locked her atop a mysterious tower. It is your job as the two popular QB crabs to scale the tower and save Cabbage before the evil lobster king Booshwah makes life very miserable for Cabbage.

Unlock ten terrifying levels in typical Wetspot fashion, taking you from the catacombs of the living dead to the entirely new and exciting QB Expo World! Play 2-player action and discover new secret powers like the devastating "crab stab" attack! Wetspot 4 continues the tradition of addictive, two-player simulataneous fun that the Wetspot series is famous for.

Once you're done saving Princess Cabbage, play Wetspot 4's unique puzzle mode, which forces both Cuby and Coby to cooperate together to solve fiendishly clever puzzles that seem to know no limits in difficulty. Or come to the lounge and play Wetspot 1 and 2 with new bonus levels to really keep you busy! It's Wetspot 4, it's four times the fun of the original, and you can read more about it only at the QB Expo.

6. Game Features

Write a list of features in the space below that you think make your game/project unique or stand out, in the space provided below (you don't need complete sentences here, phrase would be fine).

Examples:

1-2 player simultaneous action, 300+ levels, split-screen mode, DirectQB technology, the new "Crab stab" attack, 15 hilarious cinematic sequences, 2003 QB Gaming Gold winner for Game of the Year

7. Game Features

To better individualize your QB Expo page, you might want to include images, music files, and other media that would help your QB Expo sponsor have more stuff to design your page. Suggestions include links to a download of a beta or finished copy of your project, links to screenshots, movies, and URLs to your site or related links.

You can store these screenshots at your own site if you wish. If you would rather include these files in the Expo storage, make sure you place all the files you want to include into the same directory as the one where you're reading this devkit.

Examples:

At another site: http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/dungeon/703/r3ssfr1.gif

At Expo Storage: pikapika.jpg

8. Project location 

In order to economize the mailbox where all Expo pages will be sent, the zip file containing the actual game or project will not be transferred. Instead, in this space you provide a direct URL where your project can be downloaded. If this is impossible because you don't have your own website, then send your game as a separate attachment to QBShire@fcmail.com.

Example:

http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/dungeon/703/portwor.zip

Save after you're done filling out the form. Make sure you copy all of the image and media files you want to include for your Expo page into the directory where you're reading this development kit.

Have you finished filling out the form and putting all the files that you want sent to the sponsor directly ?

Yes, I have filled out the form, put in the files, and I'm ready to go to the next step.

On second thought, I would rather make the Expo Webpage myself.