How My First Experience Pitching to Publishers Went 

The definition of positive thinking 5:08. Good luck with everything Tim.

Tim: Talking about importance of publishers and how to pitch Me: *P A R R O T*

Excellent video, thanks for sharing your experience. I self- published my first game on Steam 2 years ago and realized how difficult it is to gain any visibility. I'm now in the process of building a demo for my 2nd game (this time with Unity--I heard the same advice about game engines). I then plan to make a pitch deck and hope to pitch to publishers like you have. Best of luck to you on your game, it looks cool!

it's crazy to me that a custom game engine would be considered negatively. While I understand its increasing risks, to me it mainly demonstrates mastery and expertise.

This was really well explained! Thank you for this!

the birb on your shoulder is a great addition to an already interesting talk

Great video ! Maybe you could improve the audio quality next time ?

How to write an email to publishers ?

I have this game idea I would like to give to fromsoftware. A detailed idea of a souls like game that only fromsoftware can develop the right way. Does anyone know a way I can reach them?

Nice video, why did you decide on using a custom engine?

Please who published your game?

Good info tho

drop it on the Nintendo Switch

BIRD ! (is your a bird a fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conure_veuve ?) By the way, a friend and I think your camera is moving too much ! Maybe slow it down and accelerating at some moment ? Thanks for the video

Super well organized and presented, thorough and informative!!

Very well presented, a lot of good bits in these 6 mins. I had never thought about that custom engines are risky for investors but working in the game industry since 7 years this absolutely makes sense to me, I just never thought about it from the investor's standpoint.

So you got a publisher or not?

did you end up publishing with noodle cake studios? if so I have some questions for you, as we too are considering them to publish our game.

Thanks for sharing, this was so level headed and well done. Invaluable information for someone thinking about approaching publishers.

Wow, this is a great experience :D Can you share how you could know the number of units sold of the other games similar to your?

Could have just said in the first 30 seconds, use a reliable engine and we'd have all saved 5 minutes.

All i can say is thanks and I have a lot of questions regarding a indie or studio startup can you please help me in a chat, I cant even sleep properly thinking about those questions !

question, did you sign an nda? or is it needed?

And I wondered why no good games was coming out

I would love to see the parrot making a video about game dev.

I had this problem too. using cocos creator prevented me from getting a publisher. I guess I will need unity next time.

Great video, thanks. As a side note, you look exactly like Michael Scott in his Lazy Scranton video (sans beard obviously). Love it.

GGWPGL

OG MASK STUDIO! We are upcoming developer, and we just finished making our first game, with unreal engine 5.. can u help us get a publisher.

I've been working on a game for a few months now, in unity. This is my first serious project I've decided to make after messing around with unity for about 6 years now. Needless to say, as a solo dev making a competitive multiplayer game, have a publisher or not is pretty much not a choice, the skills and cost required to maintain a server is simply too much for me alone. I know you say that I shouldn't be going in with that mindset but I simply don't see any other options. Although If I were to pitch, I do think I have a slightly higher chance of getting a publisher since multiplayer games with authoritative servers and rollback (in other words, cheater proof), are harder to make, and thus, rarer in the industry. Your video really put me in perspective, pitching a game require more research and effort than I thought. The percentages of publisher not interested seems is pretty high too. I'm not quite sure where to start once I'll get a fully working demo. I should obviously playtest this game a lot to polish the gameplay, but then what? Should I gather marketing material? Should I analyze how the gameplay truly feels in the game I made, since it's probably different from the actual game design I was targeting? Am I even experienced enough to even pitch a game?

Hi Tim thanks for the video! It’s really helpful for us. The pitch deck link is broken. Can you please share the pitch deck with me. I need it for reference!!

3 years and the game is still not released? Why?

hi i found your youtube :)

Thanks for sharing

that Quaker parrot is so cute 😍😍

The pitch deck can be found here: tyrebyt.es/turbopitch

I am a digital artist and I have a characters and a story that I am really passionate about. I do not know how to build games myself. I only have the idea. Can I still pitch an idea to a game developing company instead of a publisher?

This Is super cool, id like ti see more cars

Love the Jazz Hands

That timing at 6:10 was perfect. Monky is very smart