The Game Dev Success Ladder with Chris Zukowski 

Do you think we should have him back? What should he speak on next?

How to keep promoting a game post-launch @@GgdaOrganic

@@PorkotylerClips Good idea!

And learn something new everytime

Apparently you'll get an audience that won't say neigh to your games then!

Agreed

And it's not a GDC presentation :) We hope you enjoy the GGDA ones in the fore or background

Good luck with your game development

Great advice. Do something you know you can accomplish before you try to make your dream game

Let us know!

Smart move! Good luck

16:09 might be a better start point

@@GgdaOrganic appreciated!

No. A sale is not a festival. It has to be themed events like Steam Puzzle Fest

Done. The RU-vid studio editor is not the best for fine editing, but let us know what you think.

@@GgdaOrganic I would do the same for the last 20 minutes as well... It makes the video unnecessarily long.. 1 hour video looks less daunting than a 1:30 h long video.

@@KarmBDV22 Thanks for the suggestion. Let us know what you think of the new changes

Wow, that was fast! Thank you so much!

Are you also excited for that Khiimori horse game coming in September? 😊

Feel free to mention the games here, if you can also say what steps you think helped them succeed

@@GgdaOrganic WarPlan and WarPlan Pacific.... I didn't do anything. The publisher did. They basically followed the same steps. It was only 3-4 months pre-release. The did one game play video. Also screen shots. What I think made it a success. #1 not in a common field.... WW2 strategy game. #2 not in a common format..... Most games in this field are 1 hex, 1 unit, 1 click, 1 attack. I made my games multi-hex attack, stacking, and taking many principles from board games that were the most popular of the time. #3 good UI and UX... my wife has 2 masters in UX and instructional design. She taught me a lot about UX. I took a moderately complex game and made it easy to navigate. #4 deep strategy.... at first players complained, this was too hard that was too hard. But over time they tried different things and realized it isn't a min-max game or an optimizing game. It is a deep strategy game where strategic and operational thinking were required. Long term planning was required. The bad. #1 Not great graphics. #2 clumsy code that needed a lot of debuging after the fact as I had not coded in 25 years. I only try and make games are NOT like everyone else. But my focus is strategy hex games with a board game feel hiding the complexity in the code allowing players to think more and have more fun with an easy UI interface. I certainly understand why there are so many clones out there. It is much easier to make a 1 unit per hex, 1 click game. My next game is a fantasy strategy lite 4x, lite RPG, all deep strategy. The store should be up any day after Steam approval. So far the beta testers like it. The see the depth of the game. If you take two things from my experience is to do something others have not done and think about how to make players think beyond min-maxing the game. Love your stuff. Absolutely love it. I loved the piece you did on the user testing. My wife 100% approved of that video. Thought it was excellent. I changed my Steam page and images.

The festivals discussed here are generally online events like the Steam Next Fest. We still recommend showing your game at in-person conferences like DreamHack and Momocon as well. Not only do those give you exposure, but you get great first-hand feedback

Absolutely agree. We always encourage people to create what they are driven to create, even beyond what the algorithms suggest. However, if a dev wants to create more than one game, and do it in a way that sustains them emotionally and financially, we have to broaden our perspective.

@@GgdaOrganic I will do my absolute best. If I stay alive, I will help others with my experience/knowledge. We should work together.

You can launch a multiplayer demo with a time or turn limit so players can try it without getting the full experience