Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE

• Dremor@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rule 3 is about “excessive self-promotion”. Self-promotion is allowed, spamming is not.

  I understand it isn’t verry clear (I’m working on that), but as a mod, I usually do not remove if the following conditions are met :

  • OP do not spam his game, once every 2 weeks is fine, once every two day is not.
  • OP post objective is to spark a constructive disccution around said game. Good post forms are :
    • A video trailer that accurently depict gameplay (to filter those low-effort games whose trailers are 100% cinematics)
    • A text post that talk about the game without being just a steam description.
  • OP ask for mods permission to advertise his game. @Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world (sorry for the ping 😋) didn’t at first, got removed, but was nice enough to ask the mod about it, thank to what we found this arrangement.
  • OP engages in the conversations. Those 1 day account that post their games, never to be seen again, will be removed without mercy.

  All those implicit rules helps to keep this community free of advertisements for low-effort cash-grab games, and preserve everyone enjoyment of this community.

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I definitely want to see this version of self promotion encouraged. I think it’s good and healthy for this community to be a place where creators can discuss cool projects, engage with their fans and solicit feedback, as long as they’re doing so in a way that respects the health of the community. I think the accommodations you’ve chosen to make / demand here are very reasonable.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I mean it’s why I’m here. I’m much more interested in finding out about indie games then AAA games, if only because I probably already know about the AAA games. Especially because they’re apparently AAAA these days, and presumably some of that budget includes advertising.

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