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/
@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/
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!
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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:
Draknek just announced their "New Voices Puzzle Grant" for 2024!
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The Melbourne Queer Games 2024 Festival is open for submissions until August 23, 2024
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Tales to Thrill Jam will start in 1 week (August 7th - September 1st)
It's an unranked visual novel game jam in which you can pick one of the following themes:
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The 32bit Summer Games Jam is now open for voting!
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@ffxiv Also story-wise, Yoshi-P recommends to take a look at the Alliance raids and the convocation... π
@ffxiv My takeaways so far:
- Chat bubbles are on the way!
- 2-Dye channels look pretty good
- Yoshi-P mentioned multiple times that they want to get more experimental with mechanics again, and I can't wait to see what they'll come up with!
- I'm still unsure if I'll like PCT or not - the paint mechanic looks kind of annoying to use with the cast-time, still gonna try it though
@test
All in all you could somewhat easily "crosspost" in your home instance and lemmy as long as you don't overdo it with the tags as they don't look that pretty in a lemmy post body π
i'm kinda curious why some communities boost your posts and others don't though
@test Final observations: Emojis do not federate :(
comments do now, but so far I only see my convo with Rubi and not Nighten's comment.
Tags are also clickable in the lemmy version of the post, and they lead to the tags of my home instance.
Likes show up as upvotes as expected, links work as well.
The main post also shows up in the regular home platform search under the used tags.
@TheCrimsonSpark @test Yeah, you have to manually crosspost on lemmy instead, theres a button for it π€ Just wanted to see how much you can do without leaving your home platform
@test This one shows up on feddit properly! Conclusion: don't tag more than one community I suppose :blobcat:
@lorty I'm trying to clear Eureka Orthos (which would be my first Deep Dungeon clear) for glam. Apart from that I'd like to finish the raid tier as well, I've only cleared P8S :/
@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€