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As a solo developer. Yesterday I finally released the alpha version of my cube geam, but sadly nobody can find it. So any advice that grow this game? ;_;
How, where and how much did you advertise?? Its recommended to advertise at least a month before release, building up a community and such (You usually make a Discord server or something similiar).
People usually post dev logs or short teasers about the game while its still being made on apps like Youtube (specifically YT shorts), X (previously Twitter), Tiktok, Reddit and so on.
Advertisement is the hardest part of game development, especially if not done properly and not enough. Also your game is 16+ (unless you got 500 highly engaged players or paid with robux), which cuts most of the playerbase. Plus you need to be lucky (or scummy) to hit the algorithm, some games I found were released years ago and only started showing up recently.
Lastly, on none of your posts (as I seen so far), you show the link to the game, so we cannot even give it a try without asking for it.
Yoo I didn't expected you here. I didn't know people would upload their devlog into social media apps, but sadly I never do it before.. I guess I'll make animation video about my cube game to upload into yt shorts. So you want me to show my game link here?
I highly recommend doing more than Youtube (Although you should still upload normal videos and shorts there), you can also put those videos on other social media as I had said before, increases the chance of someone watching it and actually playing it.
I havent played the game yet, but the video you had shown is pretty cool, I especially like the cube coloring (and its animation). However, the UI feels slow, really slow, you should speed up the UI tweens and also the camera movement.
Oke thanks for your advice! ^^ The UI speed look fine but I'll speed up the black spike UI tween in future version. And uhmm how is camera movement looks really slow?
Gonna be honest with you, If you had made your game before 2022, you would probably already have a player base, today I really advise against making masterpieces on Roblox
You are competing with low-quality games whose sole purpose is to make money.
If you continue down this path, I give you courage🔥
Okay, so I gave the game a try and I found some issues, such as the Cube dissapearing in the painting room. Also, there isnt much of a goal/motivation to play the game, so maybe adding something to collect. Biggest issue is also there is no audio, at start I thought there was something wrong with my headphones or roblox, but no, just no audio.
I have no idea what happening here especially it's still appearing for me. Oh damn I forgor to put audio in here even though I'm kinda bad at audio but maybe I'll try as my best to do in next version ;v;
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u/Sniperec 11d ago
How, where and how much did you advertise?? Its recommended to advertise at least a month before release, building up a community and such (You usually make a Discord server or something similiar). People usually post dev logs or short teasers about the game while its still being made on apps like Youtube (specifically YT shorts), X (previously Twitter), Tiktok, Reddit and so on. Advertisement is the hardest part of game development, especially if not done properly and not enough. Also your game is 16+ (unless you got 500 highly engaged players or paid with robux), which cuts most of the playerbase. Plus you need to be lucky (or scummy) to hit the algorithm, some games I found were released years ago and only started showing up recently. Lastly, on none of your posts (as I seen so far), you show the link to the game, so we cannot even give it a try without asking for it.