GCS 3D Game Marketing Help

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If you would like to have your game exposed to the vast consumer base available through this affiliation with GarageDeveloper International then by all means take advantage of this opportunity. We are always seeking game submissions. Go to the site and download ourNon Disclosure Agreement , send it with your demo(if you have one) and fill out the form below. A publishing contract will be sent to you, unless you only want your game to be showcased on an OGGF CD. Strategy First Marketing: If you have any questions regarding marketing or if you have a product or product preposal that you would like to submit to us- send us an e-mail and an appropriate representative will answer you as quickly as possible. market@strategyfirst.com Valusoft We're open to creative suggestion! Developers and programmers are encouraged to submit their ideas for consideration. Xtreme Games LLC One of our goals is to help up and coming game developers publish and distribute their games. 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Some people will just take just because it's free.., I still insist, if one makes a free game or two (they dont have to be huge just fun) .., people who like it may check back if you mention there may be more freebies. DURING this visit to get the Freebies.., is wher you have to make your PAY Game VERY ATTRACTIVE.., i.e., tease them into wanting it, desiring it. "Tease and please". Robert Perkis Forget web site submission services, they are more likely to get your site banned instead of listed. There are only about eight major search engines and it would be well worth your while to hand submit your site to those that are still free or have a free back door. Almost all search submit service ads are lies, resubmitting doesn't move your site up front as a new site, it costs you your position and moves you to the back. Search engines do not drop you if you don't resubmit on a regular basis, they will drop you for spamming if you submit too often or no one links to you. The biggest favor you can do another gcs member is to link to their site. Once you get listed in some of the search engines, never visit your site without going through a search engine search for it to register hits on your site. A good hobby (once you have your meta correct and page at least looking finished) is to hand submit to a few new search engines every week. 100 Search engine list UK-Search lists the UK search engines Easysearcher is a compilation of the best search engines available on the internet. Dan Olsson In addition to Robert's comments, I would suggest entering your site in every game related web site also. I would also check the leading game publishers web sites and see how yours stacks up next to theirs on looks and surfability, a professional looking site will go a long way. To comment further on Daveman's comments on offering free games. I would submit them to Completely Free Software at the very least. When they first listed my free game I received at least 80 - 100 its a day for the first month, and I still get about a 100 a week. That's from over a year ago. Mitchell Searle I agree with David Henry, that freebies are the way to go. Another, related, tip is that if you make a demo of the game, then that will show people what your game can and will do. That will make a whole lot more people buy your game, because then they know just how good it is and it's a whole lot better, from a customers point of view, to buy games which they know will be good, so having either a demo of the game you're selling, or a prequel to the game will help a lot, because then people will know that they're getting good stuff. [Main Page] [News Archive] [Contact Me]