Getting past the moderators is usually a miracle and Laysara found that miracle. The problem with the big 3 gaming subreddits though is they are VERY VERY strict about self promotion. Sure you can post there and you will get some wishlists but if you really want to move numbers like this, you have to go for the big subreddits.Ī lot of indies like to post to r/gamedev (616k) but it doesn’t impact wishlists as much because most readers are interested in how to make games, not playing them. Indie favorites like r/indiegames (124k), r/IndieGaming (262K) are tiny in comparison. Those top line gaming subreddits are the only ones with a big enough population that can propel you to the front page of all of reddit (r/all.) Those are the subs that really put you in front of gamers. r/games (3.1m) is big too but it is mostly industry news not actual games (ironically). If you want to hit it big, like 73K upvotes big, you have to post to r/gaming (31.4 MILLION members), r/pcmasterrace (5.6m), or r/pcgaming (2.7m). For more information on this, read my blog post about Economies of Agglomeration. They are not! Fans of one game are more likely to buy another just like it. Don’t ever think that games that are similar to yours are your competition. This commenter liked one city builder and mentioned how it makes them also excited for this new city builder. I ended up rewriting a lot of code to adjust my prototype to this “mountain” idea, even scrapping some of the cool gameplay concepts, but man, now I feel it was totally worth it.”Īlso side note, look at this comment under his viral reddit post Quote: Damn, I’m really enjoying Timberborn at the moment, this looks amazing and like something I will really like” We discussed around a dozen of concepts (building on a lake, in a cave, building circles in hell, medieval village in a volcano crater, the balloon-punk universe, the list goes on) looking for the one that will be the most consistent in terms of vertical gameplay and art, but also showing the game idea at the very first glance. We spent a full month exploring the possibilities for the game art style and universe. Actually, at the beginning of 2020, we’ve got a playable technical prototype of a city builder with some verticality mechanics. Established genre with a unique spin, which really affects the gameplay (isn’t only a visual gimmick) and is easily visible from the first gif, screenshot, or first seconds of the trailer. “The one thing marketing-wise, that we actually manage to do correctly, is to have a game with a clearly defined identity. This is a direct quote by Maciek on how he and his artist fine tuned the presentation of their game: The Laysara: Summit Kingdom designed it to be marketable from the start. Happening across a winning genre wasn’t an accidental thing. Picking the right genre and having unbelievably good graphics make marketing so easy. So unfortunately, if you are working on your first game and it is a relatively unpopular Steam genre like pixel art platformer you probably won’t replicate the success of this reddit post. But they both quit their day jobs to work on Laysara full time.ĩ0% of your game’s success is determined by the type of game you are making. He spent the last 4 years as the gameplay programmer for Ancestors Legacy an RTS on UE4. The developer and studio head has been a gameplay programmer since 2012. His last project was as 3D lead environment artist for Dying Light 2. The artist has worked in games for over 10 years. This game is made by a 2-person studio with decades of industry experience. Second, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is beautiful. Here was the Wandering Village viral reddit post which earned almost twice as many upvotes. The last time I saw a game go this viral on reddit it was another beautiful city builder: Wandering Village. Steam fans love, love, LOVE complex, deep, strategy games and r/games is pretty much entirely PC gamers who play a lot of Steam games. The trick? Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a city builder which is one of the most favorite genres on Steam. I love city-builders, but I also like climbing… so how about building towns in high mountains? Laysara: Summit Kingdom will be out on Steam in 2022 □ from gaming How is this possible and how do I do it? I spent a whole year and all my personal savings making this game (with a friend).
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