@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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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
[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/
PyNGtuber - A new Free and Open Source PNGtuber App
Showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5Hy%5C_je%5C_WA
Download here:
https://gemmstone.itch.io/pyngtuber
Source Code:
https://github.com/Gemmstone/PyNGtuber
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:
@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.
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Demo Release: The Songbird Guild, a yuri magical girl RPG/Visual Novel hybrid by YuriSoft
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Demo Release: The Songbird Guild, a yuri magical girl RPG/Visual Novel hybrid by YuriSoft
Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1238940/The/_Songbird/_Guild/
Itch.io:
https://yurisoft.itch.io/the-songbird-guild-demo
VNDB:
https://vndb.org/v52242
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
@Drusenija pls squeenix....my crops are withering and ravens are eating my mustard seeds...just a few more glamour plates π₯Ί
@Drusenija @Berin Your glam is really cute!! I really dread cleaning out my inventory π« I plan to play picto so, i should prepare some gear as well..
@ffxiv Also story-wise, Yoshi-P recommends to take a look at the Alliance raids and the convocation... π
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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.