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After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by Road_Warrior_10 to c/games
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For context : have no idea how they found about it, but I love that they are illuminating indie games. And VICE.com has 12 million monthly readers. This is insane for me , because for a long time I was struggling for the game to be noticed. (If you want to follow how development of the game is going, a simple wishlist on Steam will be well appreciated.

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[–] Dremor 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Congratulations, you've earned it.

As always, @[email protected] got the mods express authorization to promote his game as soon as his post are not meme and he does not excessively promote his game (aka spam it). One or two post a month are fine, as long as they are not direct link to his game with the text being copy-pasted from the Steam page.

Anyone wanting to do the same can DM the mods.

[–] electric 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's cool you guys allow it. I find banning self-promotion is such a stupid rule for a games community. It's cool seeing people make games, too!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Rule 3 is about "excessive" self-promotion. Self-promotion is allowed, spamming is not.

I understand it isn't verry clear (I'm working on that), but as a mod, I usually do not remove if the following conditions are met :

  • OP do not spam his game, once every 2 weeks is fine, once every two day is not.
  • OP post objective is to spark a constructive discussion around said game. Good post forms are :
    • A video trailer that accurently depict gameplay (to filter those low-effort games whose trailers are 100% cinematics)
    • A text post that talk about the game without being just a steam description.
  • OP ask for mods permission to advertise his game. @[email protected] (sorry for the ping 😋) didn't at first, got removed, but was nice enough to ask the mod about it, thank to what we found this arrangement.
  • OP engages in the conversations. Those 1 day account that post their games, never to be seen again, will be removed without mercy.

All those implicit rules helps to keep this community free of advertisements for low-effort cash-grab games, and preserve everyone enjoyment of this community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I definitely want to see this version of self promotion encouraged. I think it's good and healthy for this community to be a place where creators can discuss cool projects, engage with their fans and solicit feedback, as long as they're doing so in a way that respects the health of the community. I think the accommodations you've chosen to make / demand here are very reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah I mean it's why I'm here. I'm much more interested in finding out about indie games then AAA games, if only because I probably already know about the AAA games. Especially because they're apparently AAAA these days, and presumably some of that budget includes advertising.

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