3. How my first game got 700+ wishlists in its first 2 weeks on Steam - Announcemen...

How my first game got 700+ wishlists in its first 2 weeks on Steam - Announcement Postmortem

Forgot to add a TL;DR:

  • No need to wait to have a demo before starting marketing (that way of thinking delayed me a lot)
  • The best community for learning game marketing is the How To Market A Game discord
  • Making personal connections on Twitter with gamedevs/journalists/communities (and using genre-specific hashtags) helped me a lot
  • Making a Steam page with quality art and doing little things to stand out (custom headers, new events) seems to go a long way
  • Don’t announce on a Friday when 3 huge games are coming out right then, wait till Monday
  • Make a longer gameplay trailer for Steam and a shorter trailer with an exciting intro for social media
  • Messaging reddit mods before doing self-promo can help things go smoother
/r/gamedev Thread
Previous
Next

Recently removed from /r/gamedev

I need help with my license agreement Chrome ships WebGPU, a sort-of successor to WebGL. How soon do you see this being adopted by the game dev community? How to do boolean operations on meshes for procedural cutting of geometry! (see comments) Indie game devs, have any of you ever gotten in trouble for self-promotion on reddit? Game genres that are fun and simple to develop web3, nft, crypto, blockchain in games.. does _anyone_ care? "It's really difficult to turn profit on indie game dev" A rant about the games industry Do you believe authentication is necessary for a multiplayer game? With John Carmack now completely leaving Meta and VR, do you see any future for Metas idea of VR? If your game didn't sell as well as expected, what did you do next? Just released my first game on Steam today - literally a dream come true - and you can too! Don't give up! How do people who want to make games but only have specific skills move forward? How would one make a game that they're not good at playing? Games industry veteran describes TOP 10 game development mistakes — new developers make!

More Random Comments

This is the way Test post peko This is the way This is the way This is the way Test post peko When you forget to check your code for recursions peko 'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print Test post peko When you forget to check your code for recursions peko Test post peko Test post peko Test post peko This is the way When you forget to check your code for recursions peko