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Yeah, it’s a cool blurb and a neat game, but this whole post is indie gaming advertising 101.
by auto 7y ago
Yeah, it’s a cool blurb and a neat game, but this whole post is indie gaming advertising 101.
- jonny_eh 7y agoThe lack of funding for traditional marketing is one of the greatest challenge for an indie developer. If they can come up with a (legal) way for getting attention, all the more power to them.
- Zhyl 7y agoThis is fine for this guy, but not repeatable. When it's one guy its a fun story - a performance piece almost. When it's repeated, staged or even just fabricated then you have the beginnings of a new form of clickbait.
- auto 7y agoDefinitely not knocking it, I've been in and out of the indie dev scene for quite a few years now, just calling a spade a spade is all.
- calcifer 7y ago> just calling a spade a spade is all Why though, what does it add to the discussion? Why does it matter if a tiny indie developer gets a bit of exposure to his tiny little game? "It's just an ad" sounds needlessly cynical and dismissive.
- auto 7y agoI mean, if you want my honest opinion because this kind of post is brutally pervasive on reddit, and I come to HN for content of a higher caliber?
- maccard 7y agoHN is often just as bad, if not worse with the thinly veiled blog posts.
- c0vfefe 7y agoI for one appreciate learning a truth about the world, even if someone else thinks it's cynical & dismissive. Kinda like your second sentence is.