Today, I’d like to tell you about a new freeware game site, which currently has the project name CWF . I think Jeremy has couple of times told that he really much enjoyed good old DOS games and if you also loved those games, this might be a community for you. CWF is not really about just old games, but the surprisingly active indie freeware scene of today. Here’s our mission statement:

The site is about quality freeware games, with a big line under quality. We try to have a large stock of games that are of such high entertainment-value that you won’t regret your download, and will probably be looking for a sequel to it after playing. The site is meant to be for the members and not just for the crew. A joint effort all around. Members are able to work for the site, and suggest things/features/games/etc. to make their mark on how it will work and how it will look.

The site is a quality freeware games site. This means that we offer games of a validated good quality. The games are either proven freeware or we have special permission from developer to have it hosted on this site. You will not find freeware tools for download on this site, unless they are used for purposes of this site.

We are not a place of abandonware, and only have legal content on the site.

However we do take pride in trying to make some of the old classics into freeware. If you remember playing a game 15 years ago and dont know where to get it anymore unless you want to break copyright laws and get it at an abandonware site, then this is the place for you. Tell us which game you are looking for, and we will see if we can get permission to host the game on this site. We call that specific project Abandonware to Freeware (Very original – we know).

The sites proudest project is to help developers make more and better quality games.

We want to assist the “indie” (independent) developers in getting more attention to their games. This also means that we will have awards from time to time giving praise to the best indie developers. There will be prizes.

You can sign up as a helper in the subforum Developer Help Project.

It has been really interesting to be part of this effort, to see how a group of volunteers try build something with minimal budget and resources. When we get this thing out of the door, I might write a bit about our development as a whole. Yes, my reasons to write about this site weren’t only to tell you about how great things will be, but also to ask you, dear readers, if any of you would be interested, and have time and skills or resources, to help our effort. Currently our coders are working really hard and any help with that is always needed. But, what I, as a business guy, think we are in most dire need of is visual identity. What our core team right now shares is the love of old/freeware games and we have a vision what we want to be, but we really lack someone with the skills to realize the design for that vision. To say it simply, our web presence sucks right now. If you or someone you know, would be interested, please contact me at kari <dot> silvennoinen [at] yahoo (dot) com or go to the forums!

Like many others, we also tried to get some money to cover hosting etc. by using Google Ads. Well, that didn’t work. So we joined Project Wonderful , which truly is a wonderful advertisement network. I’ll write a post about just Project Wonderful and how I think it has a lot of potential later on. It has really worked for us and probably for many others too.

But now, if you love old games and want to join a community of like-minded people, go now to CWF and join! Our main emphasis is right now to establish our forums and get our game catalog up and running. Write reviews, join our discussions, … , who knows, even help our development. We’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy your stay!

Like you had anything else to do on this nice Sunday…

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