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40wattstudio3 years ago

Interesting blog post! You bring up a lot of interesting points I hadn't considered before (making a game Stream-friendly). I also found a lot of similarities with what you have experienced with that of my own game so far.

Two things I would recommend that might make your game page stand out more:

1) Use GIFs instead of / in addition to screenshots.

2) I saw the pie charts that showed that most of your customers played on Windows. But on your game page the Windows downloads are the third and sixth options down because the .zip filenames are listed alphabetically. Might be better to rename the files so that the Windows download is the first option, then your next most popular platform, etc.

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Cheeseness3 years ago (1 edit)

Hmm, I hadn't thought of using GIFs instead of screenshots - I worry about size/quality on that front, but I'll think about it! I have an animated thumbnail/cover image, which I'm told helps.

I sort platforms alphabetically, and if I didn't, I think I'd probably be happy to sacrifice some Windows users (edit: this is a tongue-in-cheek comment - no altars involved, promise!) in order to promote the platform I use :D

Regarding stream-friendliness of the UI, I haven't found any nice solutions on that front, but I have been working on some features that will likely be relevant to streamers as part of an upcoming patch.

Best of luck with your project.

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Wechenbetelly3 years ago

As someone who uses Windows because I am to lazy to get used to one of the Linuxes, reading “sacrifice some Windows users” warmed my heart and I just wanted you to know that. ;)

And (more importantly) Thank You! for sharing your very detailed insights with the community and coming up with such a snazzy title for it.

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Cheeseness3 years ago

Super happy to share! Closing doors or pulling up ladders behind you so that others can't tread the paths you've trodden doesn't feel very culturally responsible to me. If all of this helps someone else navigate these things with a little more perspective (whether they're going in the same directions as me or not), then it's worthwhile :)

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