Hello friends, 

Today I wanted to share the journey of our small creation with you that was born out of the personal pain and suffering of attempting to navigate the indie game marketing process. 

As developer folk, we love to build and develop cool, amazing things, but letting the world kn…

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Raygun Gadabout was at MEGA+MIGS 2019 in Montreal in mid-November. It was a full four days of expo goodness, suffice to say by the end of it I had no voice left.

The feedback was very positive and I’m really excited to be back working on the game. I’ve even incorporated…

@taby Thank you man! I appreciate it <3

I’d recommend posting about your game on various gaming forums as well. It’s free marketing and can boast your marketing efforts. Gaminglatest and Virtualpetlist are two gaming forums that allow previews. 
 

Also, twitter and tumblr are both great places to advertise. 

HugoN said:
You can now follow me on Twitter to stay up to date with the project. I also plan to publish there

Moved to Your Announcements. @hugon , you could consider using our Blogs board for this sort of thing. 

Advantage: the funding part

Disadvantage: the crowd part

The crowd is fickle. The crowd wants to be entertained. Be prepared to spend a whole lot of time and effort, and possibly money, on keeping the crowd entertained. Be prepared to be insulted and outright ignored. If you've got a great product, n…

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You can wishlist “Shape: Mind of Thinker” on steam
Wish list now at:  https://store.steampowered.com/app/2267500/Shape_Mind_of_Thinker
Shape: Mind of Thinker have a minimalist style inside the puzzle platformer game

"Sometimes I overthink a lot and it makes me stuck inside my mind"

A Mini…

Facing failure, the inability to circumvent certain obstacles, is never easy. Time does not ease the process, and certainly does not mitigate the aftermath.

Finally, it has come full circle! There's this one line in the game, which was also –coincidentally–used for auditioning voice actors, states: …

In this article I am going to explain how you can upload a video from your computer to have it played as a Broadcast on your Steam Store page.

This is a way of Steam marketing automation used by many developers and publishers of all sizes. It's used to achieve more sales and/or more wishlists.

Steam …

Natalia Shuhman shares the Alconost Video Production department’s experience in game trailer and teaser production.

You may have heard that Alconost is a localization company, and we do indeed localize games into more than 70 languages. But we also create videos for games, and that is the subject of…

How can you show an app or game in your video in a way that attracts new users? Let’s take a look at what to go by when making decisions and what techniques to bear in mind when creating a promo video about your product.

Creating videos about a mobile app or game is a fascinating process, which appe…

This article is based on the Alconost presentation at the WN China 2021 event.

The Chinese gaming market is already saturated, so it’s no surprise that Chinese gaming companies have started going global. As Zhang Yiming of ByteDance said, “China is home to only one fifth of the world’s internet user…

The perennial question for game developers when it comes to producing a game trailer/app store preview - create voice-over audio or stick with text? On the one hand it seems like voiceovers are a must-have today, but on the other, couldn't you just as easily get away without one? So, when is a voic…

“We need more gold (strikethrough) users!” Sound familiar? We’ll tell you how to solve the problem using ASO optimization in other languages.

Many games and apps look to foreign markets for audience expansion. And this is an excellent growth hack, but in addition to the game itself you have to trans…

In effort to demystify the marketing process, and bring strategies and structure from the world of AAA to indie, Superstring has launched The Zero-Budget Game Marketing Manual - a resource for indie developers offering Brand, PR and community strategies on a shoestring. 

From the description:

So…

Hello Indies,

I want to make an item about the indie gaming community. How is the current situation? Are you also working from home? Can you release new titles? Are you facing challenges with for example publishers, or publising your own game?

I have every sunday a podcast. I would like your experien…

4Players launches Next-Generation Player Engagement Platform SCILL™:

SCILL™ Play open beta for Android and iOS now available

 

Hamburg, 2nd July 2019 - 4Players GmbH, a subsidiary of Marquard Media Group, has launched the open beta test of the SCILL™ Play app for Android and iOS.

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Jean Simonet is an indie developer who moved away from the AAA space in 2013 after delivering Skyrim and realizing that Fallout 4 just had him doing more of the same. Jean challenged himself and succeeded. 

In this talk, Jean runs a counterstrike on every piece of indie gaming advice you've …

Street Fighter celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017 and Steve Hendershot captured the history of the series to a depth not previously seen. Steve travelled the world to meet with all the personalities involved in the Street Fighter epic, from artists and producers in Japan to Esports champion…