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'''Advertisement Master List for Free Games''' collects information on where you can promote video games for free and to indicate how suitable your game must be to get good reception. This list is made for people who writes free(as in freedom games).

A link is followed by the description, then comments on difficulty, and then their numerical rating by barrier of entry, judgement, and difficulty.

There are two component to total difficulty which is judgement(gamers' opinions) and barrier of entry which indicate how difficult to get your game on the site.
 
Judgement:
*1. No judgement.
*2. Rating system.
*3. Must have a complete game.
*4. Must have L33T state of the art graphics!
*?. Unknown

Barrier of entry:
*1. No editorial process.
*2. Must be a type of game.
*3. An editorial process or lengthy procedure.
*4. Must catch attention.
*?. Unknown

Notes that judgement is related to the opinion of your game. The judgement factor take into consideration appeals such as fancy graphics, their zeal for quick look, and audience. For example, some audience or readership do not care if your game is still in development stage and is not the final version of your game, they will treat all the games as completed. While others are extremely harsh on 2D graphics. However, please make note that this is NOT AN EXCUSE for having bad gameplay or poorly done presentation of the game. 

If anything, this is a guide to help you avoid reputation scars stemming from the fact that your game is still in early development. Be sure to read the commentary for more indepth information about the site.

Depending on situation and sites in question, you must be careful so that you do not anger the site users or owner unless you want an unsavory reputation.
==New System(Work in progress)==


==TODO==
*Get more sites.
*Divide up the difficulty into two category, which are judgement and barrier of entry. Sum them up into difficulty rating.

==List==
===General===
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of Entry
! Judgement
! Difficulty
|-
| [http://freshmeat.net Freshmeat.net]
| Freshmeat is a general application database for unix and cross-platform softwares.
| Barrier of entry is low. There may be some rating.
| 3
| 2
| 5
|-
| [http://www.pro-linux.de Pro-Linux]
| A German site that seem to contains an application database.
| Discovered the site after updating a game entry on freshmeat. Relationship is unsure.
| ?
| ?
| ?
|-
| [http://fsdaily.com FSDaily]
| A news site on Free software.
| On occasion, games are submitted there. However it is not alway easy to get on the front page. It seem that you must get at least 10 votes to get on the front page.
| 4
| 1
| 5
|-
| [http://directory.fsf.org/ Free software directory by the FSF]
| An application database for exclusively free software.
| Look like you need to submit package through bug-directory@fsf.org. I later learned that you can rate software.
| 1
| 2
| 3
|}

===Games===
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of Entry
! Judgement
! Difficulty
|-
| [http://www.lgdb.org/ Linux Game Database]
| This is yet another database for linux games.
| You have to register in order to submit a game.
| 1
| 2
| 3
|-
| [http://happypenguin.org Linux Game Tome]
| Linux game database
| Submissions goes through moderation. It may takes days or even weeks to get approved
| 3
| 2
| 5
|-
| [http://freegamer.blogspot.com The Freegamer Blog]
| Blog on Free gaming in general
| You must catches the interests of Freegamer bloggers to get in.
| 4
| 1
| 5
|-
| [http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=3&S=13b8e9a8b9af327d1bca28ffb2163393 Game Creation at forum.freegamedev.net]
| A place to showcase free games.
| Extremely low barrier entry to their blog cousin, Freegamer.
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
| [http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/ Great Game Experiment]
| A game social networking website.
| Brief survey of comments indicate juvenile presence and game reviewed are often highly polished. You may need a high-end game to do well? Difficulty is hard to estimate without further usage.
| 1
| 4
| 5
|-
|[http://www.giantbomb.com/ GiantBombs]
| An editable game database.
| Brief survey suggest that you have to register before you can edit and then your edit needs to be approved.
| 2
| 2
| 4
|-
|[http://gamejolt.com/ GameJolt]
| Freeware(Not to be confused with free games) game database that is somewhat developer oriented.
| Extremely easy to submit games with options to mark games that are in development.
| 1
| 2
| 3
|}

===Forges===
Forges can sometime double as place to advertise games.
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of Entry
!Judgement
! Difficulty
|-
|[http://sourceforge.net Sourceforge.net]
| The grandaddy of all source forges.
| Your project will needs to be approved first.
| 3
| 1
| 4
|-
| [http://rubyforge.org Rubyforge]
| Forge for hosting ruby projects
| It have similiar barrier of entry to Sourceforge.net.
| 3
| 1
| 4
|}

==Wiki==
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of entry
! Judgement
! Difficulty
|-
|[http://libregamewiki.org Libregamewiki]
| The free gaming encyclopedia
| Absolutely no rating with only requirement is that the game are all free content and free software. 
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games Wikipedia's open source game list]
| A list of open source games on Wikipedia.
| Unless your game is really popular and "notable", the listing and creation of the game will be deleted from the site.
| 1
| 4
| 5
|-
|}

==Physics==
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of Entry
! Judgement
! Total Difficulty
|-
|[http://www.slembcke.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=6&st=0&sk=t&sd=d&start=0 Chipmunk Community Creation Forum]
| Community forum where you can showoff your chipmunk creation to the Chipmunk community.
| Your games will need to be a chipmunk creation in order to qualify.
| 1
| 1
| 2
|}

==Ruby==
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of Entry
! Judgement
! Difficulty
|-
|[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/ RAA - Ruby Application Archive]
| It is an application database for software written in Ruby.
| Your games must be written in Ruby to qualify.
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
|[http://rubygame.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=5&start=0 Rubygame creation forum]
| This is the showcase place for the rubygame community.
| Your game must be written in Ruby and then must also use the rubygame library to qualify.
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
|[http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/topics?start&pli=1 Ruby-talk mailing list]
| Ruby user community mailing list
| You can post your games that are made in Ruby but you must remember to add the [ANN] prefix to your post.
| 1
| 1
| 2
|-
|}

==Python==
{|
! Site
! Description
! Comments
! Barrier of Entry
! Judgement
! Total Difficulty
|-
|[http://pygame.org/ Pygame]
| Homepage of Pygame that also happens to contain an application database for Pygame libraries and games.
| Your games must be written in Python in addition to using the Pygame library.
| 2
| 2
| 4
|-
|}

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