A fairly straight-forward deal going on here I think. I want to promote your game.
You (Mr. Reader) have a BYOND game. I (Mr. Poster) talk to ducks in the street. Clearly this is the beginnings of a long and successful business relationship, yes?
... he talks to ducks in the street ...
What I'll essentially do is this: Have a look at your game, perhaps make a few recommendations for helping you improve the game's ability to be marketed, then I'll market it for you.
What do I want? Well, I quite fancy steak, or pizza, or a cat. The cat is not for eating though. These things cost money, as I understand it. If you have a subscription model on your game, we can discuss a means of deriving cat-funds from that, in a manner that rewards me for my work, and doesn't just give me money for sponging off your existing marketing efforts. Don't have a subscription model? No worries, maybe I can just rent a cat instead, off a friend.
... he rents cats ...
Interested in trying this out? It'll be ... an experience, I promise that much. Describe your game in the comments, and we'll get chatting about it.
Thanks for reading.
Feb 18 2011, 3:33 am
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Murrawhip
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How do you intend to market said game(s)?
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And again, I love this dude. (No homo)
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If you want cats in return then could you really call this free?
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A good question. It depends on the game really. Essentially it comes down to finding interested friends with an audience of their own, and basically getting people talking about your game.
http://www.gamesperg.com/ et al. have quite small but open-minded groups of listeners, and would allow me the opportunity of making a cast with them to discuss the game and take questions. Another common thing for the UK certainly is niche conventions like Anime conventions having an overlapping "Indie Developer" thing going on, such as game panels, open play sessions and so on. I think they suffer a bit for developers typecasting the kind of audience they think are at places like that. There is a pretty hefty retro game following among these groups, and they are pretty open minded about neat gameplay mechanics in particular. Then of course comes the slightly more hit and miss viral end of things. The facebook gimmick games based off the same concept as your own game, the youtube collaboration with the let's play community, having the presence of a twitter feed, an external website with blog content rolling out etc etc. It is probably worth noting that I would prefer to stay away from promoting fan-games. This isn't actually for any personal dislike of fan-games, so much as practicality. You market fan-games a little differently, you really need to be in their sub-community to do it properly. Although not a fan-game, NEStalgia for example may be tricky for me to promote. Imagine the scenario where I'm casting with a guy and he notes "It plays a lot like some of those Dragon Warrior classics, doesn't it?". I've never played a DW game, I certainly don't have a particular passion for them. The cast goes a bit dead-pan at that point, and the listener doesn't feel that connection between me and them. | |
SuperAntx wrote:
If you want cats in return then could you really call this free? Yes, as I want cats in proportion to a % of the extra profit I've netted your game. You haven't spent a penny of your own earned money, thus it's free for you. What is that anyway, like percentage based cat purchase? Sounds like a brilliant business idea to me. I'll take 15% of that moggy, please. *chop chop* | |
Do not turn a blind eye to this man's cat-based plight, fellow community members, I beseech ye.
Incidentally, Stephen; what are your thoughts on 'hype' or pre-release advertising? I assume marketting a game that's not done yet isn't very sensible? | |
Depends, if it's a dead cert like NEStalgia was close to it's release, some pre-release marketing within BYOND makes sense, as people here can wait in anticipation for a BYOND game.
It has no real place elsewhere though, as unlike BYOND, these other markets will not want to hang around for release, they'll want to try something now. | |
Think you could do anything for Casual Quest? I've pretty much got everything I'm going to get from the local market, so let's see what can be milked from overseas.
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I'm willing to bet I sure could, yes. I will review it in more detail after work and present you with a proposal.
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Mailing address and i will be happy to send you a pizza lol well i think its a grand idea i myself can promote very well on my on but its nice to see others giveing that helping hand Stephen i love to be your cat lol as long as the katnip was always around
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