3 Reasons Discord Is A Great Place for Your Indie Game’s Community
Discord has established itself as the go-to for many gamers and developers when it comes to communication. It’s become the […]
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Finding the Right Voice on Social Media for Your Company and Game
Indie titles are made with smaller teams—sometimes even solo developers—and while, development-wise, this can sometimes be a hindrance, when it
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How to Encourage Players to Share Your Content
Getting players to share your content can be a very tricky task. The bulk of it requires creativity, the ability
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Slack vs. Discord: Pros and Cons
Building a game community involves plenty of work. You have to establish moderators, secure and reliable servers, as well as
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5 Tricks for Managing Your Indie Game’s Discord Community
Discord is a rising superpower amongst the available free voice chat clients. It allows for free voice chat between two
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5 Conversations Indie Devs Should be Paying Attention To
It can be easy to get caught up in your own project when you’re up to your knees in concept
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Community Building: Understanding Players And Focusing On Interaction
With the ever-increasing numbers of people playing games, there is an increasing number of players who want to start a discussion
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What to Learn from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: A Marketing Analysis
If you love watching Twitch streaming, it’s likely you’ve already heard of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Bluehole Inc.’s massively-multiplayer online survival game
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You Shall Not Pass: Why Season Passes Fracture Communities
According to creative director Bernd Diemer, Battlefront II will ditch the notorious Season Pass. News outlets and players alike are excited
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Community Engagement 101: Why the Faces Behind the Game Matter
As the Content Marketing Specialist here at Black Shell, I deal with community on a daily basis. A huge part
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An Interview with Dan Mitre, EA’s Global Community Manager
I had a chance to talk to Dan Mitre who runs community at EA. He’s a totally awesome dude and
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Screenshot Photography: It’s Important For Players & Your Game!
Photography is a wondrous activity that many people do in the present day and have done throughout history. We see it practiced
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Hats on Hats on Hats, Man: Wearing Multiple Hats as a Game Designer
There’s something beautiful about being a indie developer. Freedom. Creativity. Flexibility. The feeling of not having a boss micromanage everything you
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Indie Insider Podcast #21 – Ryan Hewer, Founder of Little Red Dog Games
On the twenty-first episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Ryan Hewer, founder of Little Red
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Connecting with Your Crowd: The Benefits of Streaming
Game streaming has always existed in what I find to be a very interesting space. In one hand, we’ve got
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Who Am I Developing for? Myself or the Player?
A question plagues most people in the gaming industry, from amongst many players and media outlets to also developers. That question
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Catching the Trend: Are Metroidvania Games Making A Comeback?
Slain: Back from Hell. Death’s Gambit. Salt & Sanctuary. These Metroid-style games, better dubbed as Metroidvania, get plenty of attention from
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Home for the Holidays: Be Proud of What You Do
It’s that time of year again for many developers to pack their bags and make the frustrating journey through delayed airports,
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How to Build a Grassroots Indie Community
This guest post by Nicholas Laborde of Raconteur Games originally appeared on Gamasutra. Community. This is the word that
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4 Ways Developers Can Use YouTube
An amazing social networking tool is YouTube—albeit a much harder tool to use today as its user-base has exponentially grown.