Comments on: Getting the word out

By: Mat

Mat — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:52:12 +0000

I actually found out about Kudos 2 due to the “talking with pirates” thing you did a while back, which was featured on some gaming site. I thought it was interesting, so I downloaded the demo for Kudos 1.

I played it for a while… and then immediately felt so bad about myself that I went and signed up for some courses at the community college. I’ve been playing a lot fewer video games since. So congratulations on affecting someone with your game, I guess, even if the effect wasn’t what you’d exactly desire.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:33:14 +0000

Sorry, didn’t see the previous blog post you made on Steam. =(

Well, I don’t really know why but there just seems to be zero buzz behind your title. I’ve seen threads posted at places like http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65976 and http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=988 but there was just zero response to it …

yet some random indie game like Hinterlands which was recently released on Steam had infinitely more posts and replies …

Seems people were more interested in your blog post months ago regarding piracy than anything else.

Hope the game does do well, I played Kudos and loved it, and what I tried from the Kudos 2 demo was definitely a big improvement over the original, love the new art style and UI revamp!

By: cliffski

cliffski — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:18:27 +0000

I’m sick of steam. Why are so many gamers so insistent that the almighty valve should be the gatekeepers and middlemen for the whole PC platform.
Grrrrrr

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:16:30 +0000

Maybe you should try getting your game on Steam. Almost every indie game with buzz behind it regardless of apparent quality seems to get good word of mouth.

By: Reliant

Reliant — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:42:55 +0000

The irony of the phrase “Running emailed rpess releases through a spell-checker” made me laugh

Also, for Introversion, they’ve managed to get on Steam. I remember when their game Uplink came out, I heard about it through word of mouth and absolutely loved the game.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:39:33 +0000

Indie gamers should set up their own website to promote their games.

big companies know selling is all about publicity and pr, not product quality, they pay big money for it. Its very hard to get as a result.

By: James Rossi

James Rossi — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:56:26 +0000

The guys over at introversion have run into a similar problem. As of yesterday Multiwinia had only 6 reviews in metacritic, up 2 from the week before. I counted up all of gamespot’s reviews and there does seem to have been a slight decline in the norm last year, and a rather sharp decline so far this year. I’m going to dig into a few other review sites next to see if it’s a common trend among more review sites.

Introversion wrote up an interesting blog post about it here: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?t=1775

By: Lordarod

Lordarod — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:32:42 +0000

You’re right. I’ll tell my imaginary friends about the game:D. Honestly my friends don’t know about it yet. Everybody sharing with their friends might be enough.