How to Market your product
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| Following Bill Stanbrook and dynaman comments about the ColdSteel SDK lack of feedback and currently having hard time to market my own game, Metagolf, I thought it would be interesting to create a topic about Marketing. Here's a well written guide by Rodain "Nandrew" Joubert to start with : Zero Budget Indie Marketing Guide What I can offer you is a list of specialized blog press around indie games. A good way to learn how to market your game and mainly where to send emails of your prototype, alpha-beta and final release. Feel free to add your own link to that list. Of course, I grant the right to the administrator of this forum to see if it's useful and edit / add items to this list if necessary. Funding source: Indie fund - http://indie-fund.com/ Kick Starter - http://www.kickstarter.com/ English Press: IndieGames.com - http://www.indiegames.com/blog/ The Independent Gaming Source - http://www.tigsource.com/ Developmag.com - http://www.developmag.com/ Casualgaming.biz - http://www.casualgaming.biz/ Jay is Games - http://jayisgames.com/ Bytejacker - http://www.bytejacker.com/ IndieFlux.com - http://indieflux.com/ FingerGaming - http://fingergaming.com/ Gamasutra - http://www.gamasutra.com/ Worlds In Motion - http://worldsinmotion.biz/ Play This Thing! - http://playthisthing.com/ Destructoid.com - http://www.destructoid.com/ French Press: ModAddict - http://www.modaddict.fr/ CanardPC.com - http://www.canardpc.com/rubrique-jeux-independants.html Jeux indés - http://jeuxindes.com/ Easy Indie - http://www.gameblog.fr/thema_19_easy-indie The Indie Game Magazine - http://www.indiegamemag.com/ Relite - http://www.relite.org/fr/ MagicFred - http://www.magicfred.com/ Press release distribution services(source): Games Press - http://www.gamespress.com/ Soft Press Release - http://www.softpressrelease.com/ The Indie Press Release Service - http://www.softpressrelease.com/ Game Press Release Submission Service at Mitorah Games- http://www.mitorahgames.com/Submit-Game-Press-Release.html prMac Distribution Services - http://prmac.com/ Business Wire - http://www.Businesswire.com PR News Wirte - http://www.PRNewswire.com News Wire - http://www.Newswire.net Globe News Wire - http://www.Globenewswire.com PRWeb - http://www.PRWeb.com Various Indie contest: Independant Games Festival - http://www.igf.com/ Dream Build Play - http://www.dreambuildplay.com/ The Global Game Jam - http://globalgamejam.org/ GDC China - http://www.gdcchina.com/ IndiePub Game - http://www.indiepubgames.com/contest.php Other great places to find informations: Indiegamer Developer Discussion Boards - http://forums.indiegamer.com/ But always keep in mind that none of the services above will help you if you don't have at least screenshots, videos and demo of your game. Good luck! |
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| This is so helpful - thanks A LOT!! |
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| wow great tutorial!!! If only I could finish a decent game ;) |
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| Another way to market is to send me a cheque for $1000.00... I will happily spread the word :) |
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| I will happily spread the word reminds me of spread the word not the disk that was in someone's sig for a while but I cant recall who. |
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| @Nate the Great Ginger Tea maybe ? |
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| Fantastic info, thanks greatly for compiling this list! |
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| If you are in the "RPG-making-business" you could also give Jay Barnson aka The Rampant Coyote a shot: http://rampantgames.com/blog/ |
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