Salutations, everyone! 🎃 We've got fantastic news for you all, as well as some tips leading up to our launch so you can tell folks about the bundle.
BTW, you might be getting this email twice (once from itch.io, the second as a BCC) since we've heard from some folks that they aren't getting the itch emails. Please be sure to subscribe to our public Bundle Organizing Updates thread in the Jam Community board!
itch support response
itch support was able to get back to us in time to add the 5 projects we weren't able to put in manually, bringing us back up to 144 projects in the bundle! We're grateful to them for getting this done before launch, and we're hoping that they can help us adjust the revenue splits evenly down the the decimal percentages as well.
We've since updated all of our promo images back to say "140+" instead of "130+" Projects too. Speaking of which...
Promotional Graphics for Sharing
Just like last year, we've prepared a few templates for you to use in order to spread the word about your participation in the bundle! You can find these in a Google Drive folder we've set up, particularly in the Graphics Template folder. That folder includes a document file with instructions on how to edit the image files to add your itch cover image in, as well as a basic text template you can base your posts on.
Where do I Post?
We know that's a difficult question that's getting harder and harder to answer these days. If you aren't already following our official social media accounts, you can find them below:
Feel free to share the bundle if you're on other platforms! We use the hashtag #QueerHalloweenStoriesBundle on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter, and #Queer Halloween Stories Bundle on Pillowfort and Tumblr. Please use the hashtag that makes sense on your platform of choice! You can share your posts in our Social Media Posts thread so others can find them too.
You can also share your participation in the bundle by sharing it in newsletters, blogs, your own Discord/instant messaging communities, and even via itch.io's own Email Owners function in an individual page's Interact section (be careful not to over use this!)
Ideas for What to Post
The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle will be available until October 31, 2024, so we have a whole month to ask folks to support it. Besides the initial announcement, here are some idea prompts for things you can write about too:
- Why did you make your project?
- What does horror/the Halloween aesthetic do for you, personally?
- What other stories from the bundle did you enjoy?
- What other stories from the bundle scared you the most?
- Liveblog reading or playing something from the bundle!
We hope that gives you all some inspiration! We'll see you when the bundle goes live!
The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle Team
