Re:Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing ...
by dipsyduck on Monday February 27, 2023 @06:13PM
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Indie dev here. Any chance you could share what the right strategy was for you?
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Re:Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing ...
by pfisch on Monday February 27, 2023 @06:36PM
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Assuming your game is coming out on switch there is almost certainly tons of money to be made by constantly deal discounting a game to 50 cents or less. When this used to be allowed on Steam we made over a million dollars a year deep discounting tiny games.
The market size of gamers with almost no money is endless.
Re:Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing ...
by dleslie on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:09PM
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Prior to "Buy, Try, Return" the sub-dollar games were pure joy. I didn't care that some were shit; most were more than enjoyable enough to satisfy spending a few quarters on them for a brief period.
What I didn't like is that they stuck around my steam library. What I wanted was to throw some quarters at a short-lived arcade experience. I didn't want my library polluted with shovelware.
Re:Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing ...
by aplummer on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:41PM
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Can’t you just right click and hide it
Re:Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing ...
by Entinel on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:38PM
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This seems like a molehill made into a mountain. Just make a collection in your Steam library, dump them all in there, and keep it hidden.
Re:Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing ...
by pfisch on Monday February 27, 2023 @06:21PM
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It really depends on your price point and the game. But assuming very small with little prelaunch marketing you really need to focus on getting on the new & trending list at launch. How do you do that?
You want a lot of people to buy the game quickly at launch. The best way to do that is building up wishlists prelaunch. That has organic second order effects that are helpful, but there are other ways to get lots of sales at launch...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/12/04/report-...