Indie Insider #41 – Rocky Kev, Serious Game Devs Only
This week’s guest: Rocky Kev, founder of the Serious Game Devs Only community and creator of the Bytesized educational […]
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6 Great Ways to Use Polls on Twitter
Various online social media platforms allow you to connect and interact with the people who buy and play your games.
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Boiling Over: The Importance of De-Stressing as a Developer
It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it. –Hans Selye Stress looms over us all, and there’s
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Indie Insider Podcast #13 – Mark Soderwall, Founder of IndieGameU
On the lucky thirteenth episode of Indie Insider, host Logan Schultz sits down with Mark Soderwall, the founder of
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Channel Your Inner Journalist: Mastering the 7 News Beats
There is a distinct “news beat” that game companies follow for their launch, and once you notice these beats, you’ll
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3 Ways to Find the Journalist That’s Right for You
The most quoted advice for PR newbies is to make sure you are pitching your idea to the right journalist.
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Networking at a Game Convention Part 2: Get in There!
This article is Part 2 a 3-part series on networking at a convention. Check out Part 1 to discover what to do before a
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Networking at a Game Convention Part 1: The Calm Before the Social Storm
Last year’s Game Developers Conference had 26,000 industry professionals under one roof. That’s a heck of a lot of networking
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I Have The Power! Abusing the Awesome Power of GIFs
This 13-second animation received comments like: “Holy s***. Guess who’s trying this later tonight? Don’t actually guess. I am” “So
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6 Key Tips for Becoming a Twitter Master
Twitter. A simple concept of uniting businesses, bloggers, writers, game developers, artists and more has proven fruitful. Why is that?
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Five Simple Steps for Connecting With Major Influencers on Twitter
10 years ago, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey created the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” Since then, 320 million
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Top 3 Marketing Tips Indie Developers Should Follow
So your game is coming along nicely and you are just about ready to start showing it off to the
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The 5 Musts for an Effective Hashtag Campaign
Hashtags are a very powerful tool in the age of viral media. You can turn average consumers into your biggest fans and
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The $200 Experiment, or Why Paid Ads Suck For Indies
I had $200 sitting around and I figured, “What the heck, let’s see if paid ads are as good as
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How To Quit Your Day Job And Make Video Games
Create an amazing game that people love. Sell a few hundred thousand copies. Everybody wins. Or at least that’s how