Are you promoting your projects on social media sites?

[FranklinX 37]

HI guys! Guess who's back!? :)

 

Almost every company is promoting their products on social media. Are you guys promoting your games through social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? 

 

I just recently started working on my game again and quickly went to social media to promote its development. I didn't a lot of retweets and favorites as the game is pretty much unknown outside of the RM community. It's worth a shoot to promote along side my other projects. 

 

If you have any experiences promoting your projects, then please share them!

[Marked 197]

I think promoting on social is a great tool because of the potential audience. If you're talking to someone in your industry with a bucketload of followers and they give you a mention back: your potential audience is huge. Personally I do struggle with using it though. I would prefer someone a lot more enthusiastic than me to manage the GDU twitter account, or any other non-personal account. Perhaps because if I want to say something I want to talk about issues, which can be negative. I also don't really like Enterbrain and haven't built a game in half a decade, which is sad :

[Polraudio 122]

I found that reddit is a good place for feedback. i got over 3000 downloads total for my game and well over 100 comments with very useful feedback within 2 weeks.

[GermanyXItaly1000 16]

I'm with the anime fandom, and I use deviantART for getting the word out on my game. There's an abundance in anime fans on that site, especially for Hetalia (the anime my fangame is based off of). I think it's safe enough to say that we're the anime fandom with the best/most RPG Maker fangames.

 

Posting the fangame demo to deviantART groups centred around the anime in question got it in the sights of more people. Getting it on Youtube helped a lot, although the only reason is probably because a decently popular LPer did a playthrough. (Said LPer is a member of the fandom.) We've got a channel with 150+ subscribers... to us, that's a pretty amazing number.

 

I don't actually post on game-making forums like this one, or on sites that feature mainly original RPGs. It just doesn't seem proper, what with my game being based off an existing anime.

 

My partner and I are currently planning an original game, and we will definitely post to RPG sites. But we're also posting on deviantART, because it's a good way of getting word out. Youtube--not so much. It works for our current fangame because of the number of fans that anime has. With an original game we probably wouldn't have much luck.