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I'm starting as an indie ! Any advices ?

Antoine Dalmais · 2017-10-17T13:48:24

Hi everyone ! Starting this month, i will be working my personal projects for a year at least. My goal is to release a game and an album before this deadline. I am : - A former game designer by degree (3 years) - Half a programer (i did only 2/4 years) - Semi self-taught graphist (during my formation as a game designer and afterward) - Basic 2D animator (i took drawing and 2d animation evening classes) - Self-taught music composer/producer (my soundcloud ==> https://soundcloud.com/amerjongleur but i didn't post for a while now) My game is already advanced because i've been working on it now and then for a year already, but it's far from over. It's a small scale game, 1 room, 1 character, maybe less than two hours long, don't think i'll sell it for more than 2 euros. I use : - Unity as game engine - Adobe illustrator/photoshop for the graphics - Spriter pro for the animations - Ableton live for the music I'm looking for every advice i can get from you guys. I'm learning and discovering a lot of things by myself everyday but feel free to share your experience with me and talk about how you started working on your own projects and how it ended up. I'm actually kinda confident for the game itself. My biggest fear is communication. I'm really not a natural to the process and i'm not confident in getting my game noticed once it's done. I'm really looking forward advices on this matter. I'm from France and i think i can send demos and screens to the locals streamers and journalists but i don't know how to not make it a complete flop on steam. I posted a similar topic on reddit and i've been adviced to start communication right now, to build a community up before the release of the game, which make sense. But how should i properly do that since i don't have much more than a concept and some screenshots/arts to show the world. Should i get to people like "i have this game about this theme with those artworks, share it if you find it intresting" ? Seems a bit thin to me but i might be wrong. Tell me what you think ! Thanks in advance and have a nice day !

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Started by Amer Jongleur September 05, 2017 07:23 AM

10 comments, last by samuraipeter 6 years, 8 months ago

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October 17, 2017 01:48 PM

I'd agree that exposure is key; You may get feedback on things that people dislike in what you have so far, or what they think is awesome and want to see more of. If you put out a cool game, but no one knows about it, it will be like a drop of water in the ocean.

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