My brother and I have been working on an indie game, and I want to start trying to market it. I feel gross just thinking about that but it's a necessary evil or no one will ever hear about or play it. Anyway, I want to know how people discover new games because I think that'll help me figure out a marketing strategy.
Do you find them on social media? (Twitter, etc.)
Hear about them from friends?
Games journalist?
Streamers/YouTubers?
The last game I found was a one man project called Starseed that someone posted about here.
I’ll find all my games by word of mouth. I don’t have enough gaming time to really try out games on the hope that they’ll be good, and game reviewers have shit taste, and are bought and paid for.
I’d suggest streamers and YouTube as the best low budget marketing. Just asking streamers/YouTubers to play it is a good start. If it’s still in beta. Alphabetagamer has a decent following.
Yo I really enjoyed that Starseed game and I forgot to tell the OP good job. Hope they're still around.
I posted Starseed, but I did not make it. I just randomly felt nostalgic for it, played it, then decided to share.
Ah gotcha, well good post anyway. I was surprised how fun it was.
My suspicion was that people found most of there games through youtube, because that's how I do it lol. I can't actually imagine buying a game without having seen it first. Yeah I have no faith in games journalist also. Thanks for telling me about Alphabetagamer, I'm going to try to get on there!