Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game

Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by nopslider on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:14AM (#10757496)

Friendly advice: Getting a simple site up and running describing your game with a few screenshots or a gameplay vid and providing download links takes no more than 2 hours. Personally I hesitate to download anything from another person's dropbox.

Since you've worked a lot on your project don't let it fail due to poor promotion :)

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by isaiahg on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:52AM (#10757611)

Yeah I definitely agree. I actually had a website up once but I had to let it go because I couldn't afford the domain and server costs. Currently living off of government assistance so it's rare to have more than a few dollars extra.

I also tried to contact some publishers for a bigger version but I've never received a reply. It is how it is. I'm hoping the game is good enough to travel through word of mouth :)

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by atomwaffel on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:58AM (#10757838)

It's that time of the year where I'm feeling altruistic, so I just registered boxbytelyte.com for one year. Just let me know where you want it to point, and then I'll transfer the ownership to you in a year's time (or sooner if you like).

Also, have you thought about open-sourcing the game? That would definitely relieve people's qualms about downloading an anonymous binary blob.

Edit: Forgot that there are no direct messages on HN. You can reach me at [email protected]

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by isaiahg on Friday December 18, 2015 @07:23PM (#10761968)

I'm sorry that it took me a while to reply. The response has been so overwhelming that I honestly don't know how to react.

I wish I could show gratitude better through text. Thank you so much for that. I'm fixing up some important bugs at the moment but I'll send you an email as soon as I can.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by edc117 on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:14AM (#10758834)

Good on you, this is a great gesture. Hope they take you up on it.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by wellsjohnston on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:34PM (#10762496)

you're awesome!

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by campoy on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:35AM (#10757757)

I'm happy to give you credits to host it on Google Cloud Platform :-) Shoot me an email [email protected]

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by akx on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:53AM (#10757620)

You could use itch.io or Github pages.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by isaiahg on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:57AM (#10757630)

Oh wow I've never heard of itch.io! I wonder if they allow games in beta.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by _nedR on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:26AM (#10757727)

Have you considered publishing on Steam? Its a good avenue to monetise as well.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by nacs on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:36AM (#10758960)

It's actually pretty hard to get on Steam without a publisher. Without a publisher, you have to go through the Greenlight process which requires a ton of people voting "Yes I'll buy it if available" for your game.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by evolve2k on Saturday December 19, 2015 @05:13AM (#10763191)

Surely with the audience here on HN you could get some upvotes across there. Worth a try.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by nacs on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:35AM (#10758957)

Yes they allow games in beta.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by jjoe on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:15AM (#10758506)

I run a web hosting business and have servers to spare. Email me and I'll get you one for as long as you need it (see profile for email address).

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by iamtew on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:45AM (#10757794)

If hosting costs are a problem why not just make use of the wiki you have on BitBucket?

It's already there but empty: https://bitbucket.org/ZayWolfe/boxbyte-lyte/wiki/Home

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by mauvm on Friday December 18, 2015 @07:46AM (#10758140)

Why not use Github Pages?

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by Jhsto on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:09AM (#10757663)

Amazon S3 static sites are not that expensive either, but as far as I know you would be needing a credit or debit card.

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by intenscia on Friday December 18, 2015 @08:59AM (#10758405)

Congrats on the release. We'd love to help promote and showcase it on www.indiedb.com we are community run and here to help. We also have VRDB.com In the pipeline which would be cool for this. Keep up the fine work!

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Re:Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game by facorreia on Friday December 18, 2015 @07:06AM (#10758016)

I second that. YouTube channels are free. Why not post a 3-minutes gameplay demo?

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