How To Get More Players For Your Indie Game - Game Marketing Concepts 

I'm not a game dev and I'm not planning to be one. I'm studying web/desktop/mobile (software) development, but I find your content very useful man! Keep it up!

Thank you for shedding some light on the whole marketing side of things. I'm coming to realize that marketing is a skill set you need to learn that is just as important as actually making a game. Marketing is one of the reasons why I'm starting with small games so I can learn how to market my games before I commit to a large project. I discover games mainly through youtube ads and steam store front pages. I occasionally search terms in steam like "strategy" or "FTL" hoping to run into FTL clones.

Thanks, I find plenty of useful stuff on your channel!

I'm struggling to decide for a name for my game, because I think it is soooo important that it's something easy recognizable and somehow shows immediately what the game is about mainly (since it's going into simulation direction), mostly I'm struggling, because I'm unsure about rights to use it ("Critters" is a very generic term, but it's used by an old movie with same name) and then there is also the problem that it might be too generic. It's easy to remember, but I know it would be hard to find on google searches etc. Do you have any tips or can tell about the process of finding a fitting good name for a game? I know you already mentioned a few things in this video, so I'm curious if there is more I could consider to put into my idea finding process :o Also....what to do when one is getting attached to a WIP name and needs to change it? I don't know if Iam putting too much thought into this, but I do feel like it's a very important thing.

Thanks for all your videos about game making.

When I was a kid we used to go around singing this made up song about a meatball falling off of a pile of spaghetti and rolling around on the floor until it went outside to the tune of On Top of Old Smokey. Meatball runner...Lmao

You deserve more views. Thank you for this great video.

YOU ARE FUCKING LIBRARY OF FCKING GAME DEV!! TY FOR EVERY VIDEO U POST!

Another amazing video thanks Tim!

Great videos! But wondering where you been man? Let us know!

Great! You're honest to the audience!

Hi Tim, nice vid. Is it possible to put the links that you talk about in the description? I know we should be able to google ourselves but... you know... ;-) Thank you!

Great video! keep it up :)

Really helpful video because I actually finished my game today and I haven't really thought about the app description etc Will research about this

Is that a yeti mic in your setup?

Thanks, I'm learning it.

at what point should I have a company name for my games?

Interesting, I think this is one of those cases where people don't see that most developers are customers but not all customers are developers. I am one of those people that goes through a genre list on Steam, but definitely I won't buy all, not even all the good ones. Before people get to your cool indie game on page 27 there are literally hundreds of games before it, it's likely that people have already decided on a purchase or have a list of favorites, if the game's page and info doesn't make them want to dump all others for it, it won't stand a chance.