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Marketing your "indie" game.

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Started by The C modest god December 21, 2002 02:54 PM

2 comments, last by The C modest god 21 years, 6 months ago

The C modest god

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December 21, 2002 02:54 PM

What marketing techniques do you suggest? Which marketing sites you recommend(like realone arcade) if at all? I would appreaciate your suggestions and your own personal experience on the subject. Thanks in advance.

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Ironside

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December 21, 2002 03:02 PM

A lot of successful indie developers use the shareware model to market their games. You can find a lot of great articles on and related to this at Dexterities Articles Section

The C modest god

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December 21, 2002 03:16 PM

I am affraid the shareware forumla will not work well for me. My game is above 60Mb.

superpig

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December 22, 2002 07:52 AM

In the broadband era, that may not be so much of a problem.

You could try compression, too. What format is your media in, .WAV and .BMP?

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