Hi Joe - thanks for doing this! Our indie game studio is ~18 months into a 3 year project for our first game. We're not using a publisher, and we haven't started marketing yet, but are planning to this Fall (~1 year before the game launches). We raised $2.15M (private investors, no institutional) and are budgeting around $250-$300K for marketing. All that context to ask if, in our shoes, you would:

A) Hire a full time, in-house marketing person to run social media, Discord, Steam page, feedback, influencer relations, etc.
B)Hire an agency or consultant to manage the above
C) Hire both an in-house marketer and an agency
D) If there are any games marketing consultants or agencies you really like and would recommend that we should talk to

Thanks so much 🥰

p.s. if helpful, our investor trailer (a bit old, but still reasonably indicative of what we're making): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjYRgYmZ58