How To Find Fans For Your Indie Game
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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Hey Tim and welcome back :) Nice video !
Whoa hey I watch your vids!
Found you
Yeees! Hyyyyypeeee! Great discussions and good tips.
Found you
Thank you for the awesome video! Here's a summary:
1. Research other games that are similar to your game, because they already have players that like games of the same genre as yours.
2. Research who in the media that covered that other game in reviews, streams, walkthroughs...etc, because they already are connected to those players. Utilize the "Google" quotes.
3. Create a spreadsheet with the contacts of those media outlets.
4. Contact them to cover your game too!
Welcome back, man. Yes, try to find the right target audience is much more efficient than just shout out randomly. :)
So in a nutshell:
If you want an audience for your game, don't spam it everywhere, find people who are related to your game.
Example:
If you're making a 2d survival game, and now think of the games that are similar to yours. A great example would be Don't starve and Terraria, now you should go and try to expose your game on their forums, discussion topics, social media, the people who play them(youtubers, streamers) etc. and create a list.
This is the most efficient strategy to expose your work, not just spamming it everywhere!
OH SHIT ITS RICK!
I never expected him in a game dev undergound video. 2 people who taught me a lot about game dev in the same video, this is cool.
This is good piece of advice. Going for the communities of similar games to yours.
welcome back! I just made my very first game!
Tim "Exposure is Not Marketing" Ruswick
"Holy crap, Joey, This looks amazing! I would play that to death!" I get that kind of response everytime i show a friend my game. Maybe it's about time i make it available to download even though it's still a WIP
7:35 I feel the "why would they play my game instead of that one" is a good question to ask yourself in a sense of game design, when you are looking for your hook and your unique selling point. But when it's time for marketing, it's the opposite, ride the similarities, so you can go "it's like that game you like... but with that instead of that". I agree that if you just made a worse version of another game that already exist, why would anybody want that, but that's a problem with your game, not your marketing.
Welcome back my man!!! I missed you!
Yes! You are back :D! From the many there are you are actually my favourite gamdev youtuber! I hope I will get the marketing right, for my upcoming game, but some good tips. I knew them already, but sometimes they get out of your sight, so good to refresh, thanks for that.
So cool to see Rick here! :) Great video guys!
dude so happy to see you coming back! Love your new paste and confidence! Hope you disappeared for the best reasons.
Welcome back. hope to see more of your content :)
Wow. I did not expect to see Rick here. Its likr seeing your old teacher at the club lol
"Old"?? :-)
@@rick_davidson XD old as in from long ago. The udemy courses you know what i mean Rick 😂
Glad to see you're back Tim!
Hooray! Tim is back! =)
Long time no see! Welcome back Tim!
Holy shit you're back :D welcome back
Fantastic advice! I need to spend some time looking into these.
Very good video, love your honesty and talking to the point :)
Finally man. Welcome back!👍 I thought u died. Lol. Also do live streams. I'm 2 weeks from my game's launch day!
The balance between making the game 'for yourself' and 'for the masses'... fine line to tread...
Veterans of the field, both of them!
Really informative video. Thanks Tim (and Rick). Was wondering when you'd make your return Tim. Can you give us a video on what your next project is?
Wow you are back, was afraid you gave up on gamedev :)
it's awesome to see these two wonderful gentlemen in the very same video!
gold informations and very pleasant to watch. thank you!
Great video, really good information. I like you Tim, you are an inspiration for me while I learn my way in gamedev but man I love Rick, he's the one who's been effectively teaching me to make games through his Udemy courses. Thank you both!
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Its so true, as the developer of a game we can see a mistake and we set out to make sure we fix that to make it perfect and like you said Tim, people wont even know that small thing at all, if the gamer has a smile you have already succeeded😎😗
Yo boss welcome back missed you!
7:55 My biggest worry is that not only am I a black horse candidate, having never made a game before this, but also, my game is very unique, and is an rpg that has some mechanics that are dubiously alien to the rpg genre for combat: pong. Furthermore, my game has point and click aspects. My game is so genius and innovative that I don't think there will ever be an audience for it.
this is amazing info thank you so much
Is this real life? Tim is BACK IN UA-cam?!?!?!?!
Welcome back, Tim. Very informative!
Negative feedback is extremely important. I want to know what you don't like about my game so I can improve it.
Tim you still alive wow welcome back
Wow great advice here thanks
Enjoyed your interview. Very helpful as I move toward my first release.
This was really informative and inspiring. I'm hoping to at least get some people to download my first indie game when it comes out in a couple months. The hardest part for me to understand is how you get exposure to the public without spending millions of advertising dollars.
Glad to see you back Tim, and Rick is a really cool person to talk with.
Also, congratulations on reaching 50k subscribers! :D
learning more and more each day, but the hunger does not go away. I feel like Count Devcula.
Hi, can U make a video on your unity games analytics and stats? How many players play your games, what are your daus, maus and so on.
Greetings.
Holy moly how does this video doesnt have more views O_O very kewl discussion guys!
But with the friends, they may not want to play the game because they don’t like the genre or maybe they don’t like games or something not just only quality
Rick is rrally good teacher ı watch all of that tutorials thank you so much rick
So Ill make a huge list of contact of those like to play my next kind of game, Ok
So much gold for marketing in this video!!!
Thank you
Thanks! this was really insightful
Thanks Tim, this video helps me to understand more about marketing. As a solo dev, I'm lack of this skill.
Terminal hacker
thanks for the tips, marketing is hard!
Can you also talk about other marketing strategies?
Great tips! Thanks a lot.
Finally, welcome back Tim
Love your videos they help alot, thanks to you I redid all of my game art. Also my game theme setting went from futuristic to medieval theme. xD
I love your videos
Hey Tim in the video you mention how to find people by googling and creating an excel sheet. Do you have a video covering that?
❤I did like this. Feedbacks are part of SWOT analysis. Best ones are from Streamers. ❤ Thats really the best way for sucsess and go on. Love you comments here.❤ 10/10 pinnailed for indies like me.
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What about finding Developers interested in joining your game?
I've been working on one just for a basic prototype.
I know exactly what I want and how I want it. Working on World Machine to import onto UE4 and use assets for modders for a specific game. Basically what Hell Let Loose has done but a completely different setting.
Great video! Problem is when there are no games that are similar to mine. Or at least, I can't find them. Anyone know a side-scrolling RTS game that is NOT a Tug of War game?
"i spent 4 years working on a platformer because i was terrified i was making a horrible game, i could have done it in 6 months"--- I felt that remark deep in my soul lol
Long time no see on your channel Tim. Glad you posted a new video! Great advice here but it seems I already practice most of it. Still there were a few things said that certainly helps. I have 4 games currently in the works plus a dlc right now. Two of the 4 are in beta and 2 are in alpha 🙂
Rick Davidson simply makes me happy, he's so cheerful! :D
I had thought you disappeared off the face of the planet. God is it good to see your face again
Very insightful! Thanks a ton :)
Glad to see you back on UA-cam!
My friends: "Where did you download this garbage from XD"
Very cool to have ya back
Thank you, so much!
H3llo Tim BusWick😉
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Why so short?
The longer one is linked in the description.
Anyone wanna be a fan for my game ?
I think I know this guy from GameDevTV
yep. :-)
Rick is a man of deep knowledge by being in this industry for long. You should check out his courses. I find them insightful