I was in pokemon gamma emerald discord. I was looking for someone to talk to while I downloaded the game. It was taking a while so I decided to show the project I was working on. They ended up really liking it, it felt great. I spent so much time studying how to market. Maybe I didnt realize I was marketing in the wrong place. Though the goal there never was to market my game to begin with... I...
I'm convinced marketing a game is harder than making one. How do you get people to notice your game. How do you get people to give it a chance? And if you can't Validate if people like it, is it worth making it. I had playtesters try out may game and overall the results were positive. But will people just think it's another pokemon clone when it releases? Will they skip past it in the sea of in...
I made the mistake of sending a prototype to publishers. It was only after the fact I found out that most need a vertical slice. I sent it to a lot of the publishers you could think of. I wish I had waited till after I did my playtesting. The amount of changes that happened in 2 months would have made the difference. But you live and you learn and you learn to live. The nice people at Indie.io ...
When I first started making games I thought development was the hurdle. If you made something good ppl would come. But over time I realized, marketing was the mountain you see on top of the hill. I have no idea how to tell more people about my project. It seems many ppl have that problem too.I show my project off in discord servers and people seem to like it. Some people even asked me when my s...
Thats something I think to myself a lot. Making a game is hard, making a game takes a lot of time, and marketing a game is another beast. So whats the point of even trying? But I had this idea in my head sense 2017, even though I only have the skill to make it now. I don't want to regret not trying even if it fails thats fine. I was inspired to make a website after watching a factorio documenta...
