HOW TO SELF PUBLISH YOUR INDIE GAME: from start to end Are you an aspiring game developer with a great idea for an indie game? Want to self-publish your game and get it out to the world? Well, you're in luck! Today, we're going to walk you through the 12 steps to self-publish your indie game, from start to finish. Step 1: Speed up your stage of thinking of ideas The first step is to speed up your stage of thinking of ideas. It can take a lot of time to develop a good idea, but there are ways to speed up the process. Find out about market trends, mix popular elements from the same or different genres, and don't forget to keep clarity, satisfaction, and fun in mind. Step 2: Make sure your testing stage works well The next step is to make sure your testing stage works well. Test every one of your ideas, how fun it could be to play, all inside a controlled environment, and keep working on good ideas until you get the results you want. Step 3: Prepare your ideas for a soft launch Once you've passed the first set of tests, it's time to prepare your ideas for a soft launch. Keep up with trends, check out different network specs, try again and again, and get people involved. Step 4: Know how you're doing Step 4 is to know how you're doing. Track key metrics such as retention, playtime, IMPU, ARPU, and LTV, and make sure your level structure is the best for your game. Step 5: Addressing player's feedback t's important to take into consideration what players are saying about your game. Listen to feedback and consider how to make changes and updates to improve the player experience. This could include fixing bugs, addressing balance issues, adding new content, and more. By listening to your players and addressing their concerns, you can help ensure that your game is as enjoyable and successful as possible. Step 6: Continuous iteration Step 6 is continuous iteration. Self-publishing a game is not a one-and-done process, always be open to testing new features, making changes and improvements. Step 7: Get more people to play Step 7 is to get more people to play. Reach more players and grow your player base by marketing and promoting, networking, building a community, incentivizing players to invite friends, analyzing metrics and mobile app store optimization. Step 8: Legal considerations Step 8 is to take care of legal considerations, such as securing licenses and protecting your game's intellectual property, and complying with laws and regulations related to video games. Step 9: Localization Step 9 is localization, translating your game into different languages and adapting it to different cultural norms and expectations for different regions. Step 10: Quality Assurance (QA) Step 10 is Quality Assurance, making sure your game is stable, functional, and has no bugs, hiring a QA team or outsourcing this task is recommended. Step 11: Establishing a pricing strategy Step 11 is to establish a pricing strategy, deciding how you're going to monetize your game. Step 12: Support and maintenance Step 12 is support and maintenance, providing ongoing support and updates, dealing with player complaints and concerns. With these steps in mind, you'll have a clear idea of the process of self-publishing your indie game. Keep in mind that this is a continuous process that should be adapted to the changes of the market and feedback from players. Remember to enjoy the process, and good luck! You can read the article at: https://game-developers.org/ Music https://freemusicarchive.org/music/defrini#contact-artist Some of our tutorials: Make Your First 2D Game with Godot: Level & Player is the video that you are watching. Want to see the same game being developed in other tools? Make Your First 2D Game with Gdevelop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROioKthpAg&list=PLiyuZHAJlUip8CCU1mfUwX05jOTMiHkoo Make Your First 2D Game with Defold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sxj1Ggc4jQ&list=PLiyuZHAJlUirBilfmrIBHD-A8ouaWvBCj Make Your First 2D Game with Construct 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVEnx1EUnMI&list=PLiyuZHAJlUiqe-ycnvO7SI_uhQk-7ns45 We have a twitch channel too now, where we are thinking in live streaming https://twitch.tv/gamedeveloperz Stay tune, and don´t forget to subscribe, it will certainly support us. ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ http://www.game-developers.org https://www.facebook.com/videogamedevevelopers https://twitter.com/game_developers https://game-developers.itch.io/ ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ #gamedev #indiedev #gamebusiness #gamedevelopers from Game Developers to Game Developers, sharing knowledge MAKING YOUR WAY INTO THE GAMES INDUSTRY ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQLdIjg0xk

CONSTRUCT 3 Game Engine SHOWCASE: IN THE NAME OF THE HOSE As we are introducing a new serie of Construct 3 game engine tutorials, we are also adding showcases of games made with the engine. In this case, an adventure with watercolors visuals very interesting. ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ Our honest feedback The game has a very cool art style that makes it standout when browsing through the list of games made in Construct 3, and makes you wanting to play it. The game has been developed for a game jam AdventureJam 2020 and try to replicates the feeling of a children book. As an adventure, it follows the typical patterns of finding the matching object/use and then move on to the next challenge. Usually, in the latest adventures, designers have tried to avoid, what is is vulgarly known, pixel chasing or the need of moving the mouse pointer across all the pixels of the screen as to be able to find an object or something to interact. In the case of this adventure, we had in some occasions to do it at a certain level, as some of the objects where so matched to the colorful background that we were not able to find it. Nether less, a very interesting adventure with some cool art that would be very interesting to see in more advanced and longer story. It is definitively a very good showcase of what is possible to do with Construct 3. The game demo can be found on itch.io https://joelmayer.itch.io/the-name-of-the-hose Construct 3 is a commercial game engine developed by Scirra, and that is a friendly engine to enter the game development arena. In its free version, Construct 3 is allowing developers to use up to 40 events. After those you need to purchase a license you can use Construct 3 without downloading it from https://editor.construct.net http://www.game-developers.org https://www.facebook.com/videogamedevevelopers https://twitter.com/game_developers https://game-developers.itch.io/ ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ #construct3 #nocode #adventuregame #gamedev #gamedevelopers from Game Developers to Game Developers, sharing knowledge MAKING YOUR WAY INTO THE GAMES INDUSTRY ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOx5DlK3xU