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

Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• electric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s cool you guys allow it. I find banning self-promotion is such a stupid rule for a games community. It’s cool seeing people make games, too!

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • Dremor@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit mods should learn a thing or two from you : )

  “Posting about a game on game related sub? HOW DARE YOU?”

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I once saw a post about Oni, a 2001 Bungie game get deleted from the Bungie subreddit for not being Bungie related.

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The blatant ads there were getting insane though. I love how you are sharing your well earned recognition, but many times on Reddit it was, “My daughter died of cancer three years ago and I quit my job and used coding as therapy, three years later, I have my parting gift inspired by her love of turtles ready to share with the world!”

    Insert half-baked $5 game made in a few weeks

    It was so obvious they were creating fictions to push shovelware.

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