@savvywolf @gamedev That doesn't really serve the purpose these cross promotion methods were devised for. These are meant to help you gather wishlists for your upcoming games, which is supposed to ensure a successful launch by getting you into steam's promotional algorithms (e.g. Popular Upcoming) as quickly as possible.
I agree that most of these techniques are too intrusive from a player perspective, though. I'd add a link in the main menu and heavily discount old games at most π€
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How to cross promote under the new Steam Rules by Chris Zukowski
https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/26/how-to-cross-promote-under-the-new-steam-rules/
Submissiones open: NOVELASIA - SEA Visual Novel Showcase 2024
NOVELASIA is an upcoming event on YouTube celebrating visual novel games developed in Southeast Asia!
If you are a SEA-based VN-dev, you can find more info and submission forms here:
https://southeast-asia-game.fandom.com/wiki/NOVELASIA_-_SEA_Visual_Novel_Showcase_2024
The deadline for submissions is on Sunday, 22th September 2024.
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New Ren'Py Extension guiManipulate allows you to adjust the position of screens in-game
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@gamejams I would love to participate in Spooktober this year but I'll be too busy with my other projects to start a new one π©
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Submissions for the 2025 Independent Games Festival are open until September 30!
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Submissions for the 2025 Independent Games Festival are open until September 30!
https://igf.com/article/2025-independent-games-festival-submissions-are-now-open
@Boomkop3 Yeah I guess π€ I wish they could provide an optional image-button UI for the socials widgets so theyre easier to see at least..
Chris also wrote that his next blog post will be about alternative strategies to cross-promote games. I'm curious what he'll come up with
[Blog] Valve just took away a valuable visibility tool
Blog post by Chris Zukowski (How to Market A Game)
https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/21/valve-just-took-away-a-valuable-visibility-tool/
@renpy If you want to try out the new audio filters, RenPyTom released the "AudioFilterTest" project in his March developer update, which lets you test them in real-time:
https://patreon.renpy.org/dev-2024-03.html#audiofiltertest
#RenPy
PyNGtuber - A new Free and Open Source PNGtuber App
Showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5Hy_je_WA
Download here:
https://gemmstone.itch.io/pyngtuber
Source Code:
https://github.com/Gemmstone/PyNGtuber
@cevn I'm happy that they could go all out with the CGI this time around but I didn't agree with the art direction and some of the characterization. Reinhard and Kircheis' designs I especially dislike, where are their luscious locks... they look like run-of-the-mill ikemen now :BlobhajSadReach: And since they decided to continue the plot with a movie series I kind of lost track of it
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Demo Release: Lost in Limbo - A Dark Fantasy Romance Visual Novel by Ravenstar Games
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Demo Release: Lost in Limbo - A Dark Fantasy Romance Visual Novel by Ravenstar Games
Preview & Review of the Demo by BlerdyOtome:
https://blerdyotome.com/2024/08/20/lost-in-limbo-demo-review/
Itch.io:
https://ravenstar-games.itch.io/lost-in-limbo
Steam Demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3103010/Lost_in_Limbo_Demo/
Full Game to wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058760/Lost_in_Limbo/
The last 100+ episodes anime I've watched must've been all of the original Legend of The Galactic Heroes! It's a classic :blobcatcoffee:
Apart from that, Hunter x Hunter and Naruto
Voting for the GMTK Game Jam 2024 has started!
The theme was "Built to Scale", and there are a whopping 7708 entries! You can check them out here:
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2024/entries
Voting is public, so everyone can participate by going to the submissions page and opening their personal randomized queue of games to play and rate:
Japanese Indie Otome Game Melty Amethyst Launches on Steam October 1
Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3086760/Melty_Amethyst/
VNDB:
https://vndb.org/r118099
@renpy I've been using the tasks in the Ren'Py VSCode template to do some of these things until now. This is interesting π
@yuri Synopsis:
Magical girls are a specific class of worker that has spent years mastering the drawing of magic from their planetβs five moons. They use this magic to fight creatures of darkness that congregate in the no-man's-land between cities. Kotori, a plucky new magical girl, hopes to find a job in one of the famous guilds of Larimar City. During a test for a guild, she and her familiar Brie Butternuggets will meet Kaida and Gigi, who are on a mission of their own for the Songbird Guild.
Some of these templates would look right at home in a VN for the upcoming spooktober jam π
Skolaztika also has a bunch of other high-quality templates, so taking a look at their profile is worth it
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@Kelly @gamedev Chris went through the numbers in this blog post and the one before and apparently, yeah.
https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/21/valve-just-took-away-a-valuable-visibility-tool/
According to one developer quoted in that post, about 75% of trackable wishlists of their sequel were achieved through crosspromotion from the first game's page.