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i don't think that you're doing anything wrong. The vast majority of game developers (and authors, musicians, artists etc) are in the exact same situation and I'm actually quite jealous of you having this experience at a young age. Many much older people are still trying to grapple with these things and although many people offer easy answers, it's all very chaotic.

The thing I'd say is to branch out in whatever ways you're comfortable doing so. Community building is a skill set of its own and it's unfortunately very distinct from the skill set of game development. Actions that could take five minutes your end might be enough to reach people and your post is already a good start.

For my part, I first went out trying to make the numbers go up but I've realized that I'm far more satisfied by meeting individual people who I get along with and can have great conversations with. I think in the long run, that's better motivation to me.

I'm rambling, but I think it's an important thing: find a mindset of networking that you can do that feels natural and the numbers will take care of themselves (or will stop mattering)

gernermale2 years ago

You prove a good point that caring about numbers is a bad thing and that I should focus more on individual people, but dude I don't even have that. People on my Reddit posts just say it looks cool, like bruh can you play the game please?

Also about branching out, where do i do that apart from some random forums where i hope that someone will playtest my game. Some people did say they were gonna playtest the game but i never got any feedback from them. It's really hard to stay motivated if people don't give a damn about your game and ignore you. Like sure, woohoo i got a download but how will i know if they didn't just play for 10 minutes only to deinstall the game? I get it, nothing is guaranteed to work out, but I've been making this game for a year and a half and i don't want it to go to waste because i believe it really has some potential to maybe even blow up one day.
Like believe me, i would much rather have a dude say why my game is shit rather than radio silence.

Is there a formula that makes games blow up, or at the very least have some YouTubers cover the game and give live feedback? I hoped that maybe devlogs would bring the game some light but nope, still nothing. Is there a forum or a list of YouTubers that cover indie games for me to try again in branching out and maybe getting some individuals that will gladly play my game? Or is there maybe a company or a team that will be interested in the game? Like yeah sure, the point of indie game development is for it to be fun but i also want this to be my job in the near future.

To sum up, I'm not trying to be needy I'm just trying to make someone play my game and hopefully that someone would be a twitch streamer or a Youtuber, actually, you know what? The individual doesn't even have to be a Youtuber/streamer im just trying to get some good constructive critisism.

Midnight Spire Games2 years ago

You prove a good point that caring about numbers is a bad thing and that I should focus more on individual people, but dude I don't even have that. People on my Reddit posts just say it looks cool, like bruh can you play the game please?

Is there a formula that makes games blow up, or at the very least have some YouTubers cover the game and give live feedback?

You've already discovered the formula: meme horror games. I count a total of twenty-six gameplay videos linked from the comments of your other three project pages, mostly for the two Siren Head games. That's a lot. When a YouTuber runs a generic search for "siren head" looking for something to entertain their audience, they will find your games in the list. Your original tower defense project will probably not get the same level of attention as those.

gernermale2 years ago

That's why i keep those goofy ah games still published and not drafted, hoping that someone would click my profile and play my other games. The siren head games were mostly just me testing the waters with something I found cool 2 years ago. Now that i shifted directions, it didn't quite work out. I also don't wanna make meme horror games for the rest of my life, but maybe it's a good way of raising some kind of popularity, although a weird one. Sure why not, ill just follow another random trend and make a game about it.

But that still begs the question of how do i get views, downloads and feedback without following a trend. Reddit posts and contacting YouTubers/streamers didn't work out so well but there must be other ways than that right?

RemioDacho232 years ago

You have to follow the trend to get popular, its the only way these days trust me.

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