The Big List Of Indie Game Marketing
On this page you will find a collection of handpicked articles about indie game marketing.
Moreover PixelProspector’s Marketing Guide For Indie Game Developers is still in heavy development…
Indie Game Marketing
- How To Contact Press (And Increase Chances To Get Press Coverage)
- How to market your indie games: 50 min lecture by Ben Kuchera (ars technica editor)
- Indie Game Marketing: 1 Hour Talk by Brian Baglow (Comments about it on reddit)
- The Indie Marketing Plan (Joost van Dongen)
- How we handle our social networks (Moacube)
- Indie Game PR on a Shoestring (Rob Fearon)
- The Idiot’s Guide To Marketing Your Indie Game (Gamasutra)
- The Big List of Game Revenue & Sales
- Zero Budget Indie Marketing Guide (Rodain Joubert)
- 5 Indie PR Tips (Wolfire Games)
- Wolfire’s Guide To Indie PR (Gamasutra)
- Bursty Indie Sales Cycles (Lost Garden)
- Top 10 Ways To Market Your Indie Game (2D Boy / Polytron)
- Building Buzz For Indie Games (Gamasutra)
- Talking To People – Promotion For Indies (Spaces Of Play)
- 10 Quick-and-Dirty Indie Game Marketing Tips (Rampant Games)
- Basic Marketing Plan For Indie Games (Game Producer)
- How Do You Get Your Game To Market (Game Producer)
- The 7 Deadly Sins of PR for Indie Developers (GamerBytes)
- 100% Marketing Success Tips For Indie Games (Satirical Guide By Rob Fearon)
- How To Use And Abuse The Gaming Press And How The Gaming Press Wants To Use and Abuse You. (Kieron Gillen)
- Possible Reasons Why You Feel Uncomfortable Promoting Your Own Game (TIGSource Forums)
- Various Indie Marketing Links (Four Door Lemon)
- Marketing Topics on Gamedev
- How Early Reviews Hurt Sales Of Indie Games (ars technica)
- GDC Austin: Wolfire’s PR Tips
- Effective Marketing For Indie Game Developers (John Graham)
- 5 Minutes Worth Of Observatioon About AAA Indie Games (Chris Hecker)
- How to Advertise your FOSS game (FreeGamer)
- Marketing For Geeks (Eric Sink)
- Moacube’s Marketing Experiences
- Indie Game Marketing Roundtable (Indie Game Searchlight Podcast)
- 9 Tips For XBLIG Marketing (Gamasutra)
- How To Market Your Game XBLIG Style – Part 1 (Armless Octopus)
- How To Market Your Game XBLIG Style – Part 2 (Armless Octopus)
- 8 Marketing Tips (reddit)
- Creating Buzz For Tealy Orangey
- How To Pitch Your Project To Publishers (Gamasutra)
- Game PR and You: A Comprehensive Overview (Gamasutra)
- Wearing Multiple Hats Is Tough, And PR Is Important (Christoper M. Park)
- Open Development Marketing In Game Development
- How To Market Your Video Game – Part 1 (indiePub Games)
- How To Market Your Video Game – Part 2 (indiePub Games)
iPhone Specific Marketing Articles
- The Fourth Dimension – $13,945 in the first three months without being featured by Apple
- iOS Development Marketing Checklist
- Opinion: Ten simple steps for App Store success
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- 8 Marketing Tips
- iOS Development Marketing Checklist
- 10 simple steps for app store success
- An Indie Dev explains in great detail what he did for marketing etc.
- Massive Press Coverage List (Developer Lists All Sites That Covered Their Games)
- The Big List Of iPhone Game Sites (Pixel Prospector)
- HUGE List Of Even More iPhone Sites (…And Related E-Mail Adresses)
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Top 10 ways to market your indie game is down. I found a copy of it here: http://www.hs.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148782715310 but I can’t find the original one.
Rolpege
August 26, 2011
Thanks for the hint. You are right that the on-site search doesn’t find the article… so i tried a google search and it worked (“top 10 ways to market your indie game” site:offworld.boingboing.net/)
PixelProspector
August 29, 2011
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Weekly Roundup (starting 17th Oct 2011) | IndieCity Blog
October 24, 2011
This is amazing! You just helped me a ton! I’m leaving work to become an indie developer, while backpacking across thailand. I could not have found your website at a more perfect time!
best of luck!
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October 26, 2011
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May 8, 2012
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May 18, 2012
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Marketing Week Roundup! | IndieCity Blog
May 29, 2012
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Indie Developer Consulting
July 28, 2012
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August 28, 2012
[...] taking advantage of available tools and researching guides for marketing gamesare key, Ismail believes there are also four essential attributes and requirements you should have [...]
How to make the press notice your indie game (via Gamasutra) | Gigaloth Games
September 20, 2012
[...] like an automatic press kit generator. While taking advantage of available tools and researching guides for marketing games are key, Ismail believes there are also four essential attributes and requirements you should have [...]
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September 20, 2012
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Promoter, Presskit, RockPaperShotgun | Talking Moose
September 20, 2012
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How to make the press notice your indie game
September 21, 2012
Great list of marketing resources. I’d like to add Indie Game Girl (http://www.indiegamegirl.com) to this mix. It’s a FREE resource that helps indie game developers market games with step-by-step instruction.
Emmy Jonassen
October 16, 2012
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October 21, 2012
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Awesome indie game/dev resource blows out candles « Just One More Game
October 30, 2012
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The big question: what would it take to get some cash from indie game producers? – JOUR4180: Online News Development
February 8, 2013
Wow this is a very useful article. Thank you very much for putting all this info together!
Ana
February 19, 2013
What an unbelievable resource. Thank you!
Eric Provan
March 4, 2013
[...] While a comprehensive listing of game journals and how to contact them is beyond this article's scope, there are some really great resources out there on this topic. [...]
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March 11, 2013
Awesome list! I’d add this one about “How indie devs should talk to the press”:
http://www.hookshotinc.com/how-indie-devs-should-talk-to-the-press-by-the-press/
Erlend Sogge Heggen
April 6, 2013