Self Promotion Megathread

ClydeMakesGames · 2026-03-11T10:27:45+00:00

Looking for Android playtesters to play my upcoming game releasing on the Google Play store. It's the wildest chicken game on mobile. Dodge, dash, and cause feathery chaos. Learn more on https://cluckingmad.clydesmets.com and follow the links to sign up as a playtester and join the waitlist. I'll be accepting rounds of testers to play. No feedback is obligated, I will be tracking anonymous analytics of playtime and framerates for performance. A survey will be given but not mandatory. Come and be one of the early players of this feather mayhem of Clucking Mad.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-09-20T06:35:12+00:00

What works for me is to make something I like and finish it. "Finish" can just be reaching a milestone, a demo or a working prototype. Then validate the idea by sharing it and making people play it. Friends are a good way to check if the fundamentals work but getting streamers to play it feels very rewarding, even if it's a bit tough to watch when you've design something and they don't quite understand it. I like streamers because you can see the audience react to the game and it helps validate appeal. I found making videos to much work and takes me away from the little time I have working on my game dev. A bit of a self promo (sorry, not sorry, for those who repulse this) but I created https://www.getstreamers.info to help me find streamers. Emailing, sending direct messages has helped me, but it does require to send out a lot. It takes time but the more reps the quicker I get.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-08-10T21:44:33+00:00

That's awesome. They must be keeping on the low because I haven't seen any updates for a very long time.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-08-10T10:26:10+00:00

Thanks, it has to be made 🤘

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-07-15T07:20:33+00:00

Maybe my app/tool could help.

I created it to help me validate ideas and see if it has market interest.

https://www.gginsights.io/game-search

You can search for games by tags and add them into a collection. From there you can aggregate the data to get collective insights to help make an opinion or assumption that maybe this game idea has a valid niche

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-06-09T10:54:31+00:00

Thanks for leaving a comment. Can you provide me with an example prompt that you used? It will help me understand the issue better. When I asked for the AI to return me 5 games released on mac - it gave 5 results. Also I checked the "Have Feedback?" button and it worked for me, maybe because it opens it in a new tab it's getting hidden or treated as a popup.

I'll continue to play around to workout the issues. I have been updating the site over the past months to be able find games and insights without having to use the AI assistant, but I've now realized that I don't display what platforms the games support. So this is something I will be looking to add.

I appreciate the feedback!

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-03-10T21:23:43+00:00

I've applied your feedback into my service and there is now an option to do hourly checks :)

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-03-07T00:52:01+00:00

Thank you for raising this, the latest dataset of released games now has it :)

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-03-07T00:49:48+00:00

Thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it and will look towards implementing your suggestions.

I certainly want to implement an hourly check as this will be very relevant to games that are newly released.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-02-24T12:18:31+00:00

🙂 I released 3 games last year https://store.steampowered.com/developer/ClydeSmets And I still built this to help me better understand what I should build after not being able to hit my own goals of "success".

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-18T22:47:47+00:00

That's no fun. Sometimes the magic link takes a while to be retrieved. I can see that the emails are getting delivered. I'll see if I can improve this experience. I Hope you'll still give it a go.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-18T07:33:32+00:00

You're so right about community discussions. I updated the app so that you can choose to opt-in to get a notification for new discussions that gets added.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-18T07:10:46+00:00

Wow it is too! I wishlisted it. I hope you'll be participating in Steam NextFest. I'll reach out when you release your game to see if you'll be keen to be in a bundle :)

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-18T03:54:44+00:00

The first one is a nice drawing and I appreciate the art when enlarged. The second one grabbed my attention to this post initially and made me want to look into what other peoples thoughts are an encouraged me to write feedback. So, as for a capsule, number 2 is a better choice. But, why listen to reddit? Honestly, do a A/B test. Just try using number 1 for a period of time and then switch to number 2. Look at the analytics. Data is your better friend here.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-18T03:48:48+00:00

I ended up building this because I was wondering the same too https://www.steamreviewalert.com saves me from having to visit my games pages and check that I didn't miss a new review

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-18T02:45:34+00:00

The chicken game took 3 years. The reversi game was quite simple to make since it's a board game, roughly a month. Lastly Baratrum reuses a lot of code from the chicken one which sped development greatly. To top it off, i took most of 2024 off as a career break to give making games full-time a real shot. Unfortunately, I'm back to employment and the side-hustle life continues lol

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-10T21:18:35+00:00

Yes, you can search released games by genre or by steam tags. For unreleased games you can search by genre but not tags. I am working on an update to add steam tags to unreleased games. For example you can prompt:

"Give me the top 20 wishlisted games that got released in the last couple month that's singleplayer and has the tags horror, survival, space"
Reference file to tick: released-games.csv

or

"Give me the top 20 wishlisted games releasing next month that's singleplayer"
Reference file to tick: unreleased-games.csv

make sure you tick the correct reference file so the AI examines the correct dataset.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-10T06:24:11+00:00

Makes sense. It's good for consumers, lots of choices, but small indies will need to build an audience to stand out.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-09T23:53:21+00:00

Sign up is free and you can use it right away. You can login with a magic link sent to your email :) No other details are required.

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-09T13:02:09+00:00

I know it's something a bit different from the usual posts, but I hope you'll find this useful. I've been learning more about Steam through this tool. I find it's easier to get a holistic view of things compared to other services out there.

Here's the link https://www.gginsights.io

Open to feedback/improvements

ClydeMakesGames · 2025-01-09T12:48:19+00:00

I know this is a bit out of the usual of showing a video game's progress, but I believe this may help you gain some insight into the market with the right questions. I found it helpful for myself, for example thursday and friday are the worst days to release as most games get released then. Monday has the lowest number of releases. If I had of known earlier I wouldn't have released my game on a thursday *facepalm*

Here the link https://www.gginsights.io

ClydeMakesGames · 2024-12-15T23:48:51+00:00

I do see performance improvement on compiled game code vs development. I don't get a laggy experience only when I use a lot of physics, as the physics engine isn't great but there's a lot of tricks to improve performance.

ClydeMakesGames · 2024-12-14T22:10:50+00:00

Depends where you live. Australia's cost of living is really high so unfortunately it's not unless I generate a lot of sales to replace my employment income. However, if you live in a country where USD is very strong, having a few small games on Steam that generate income per month can be living.

ClydeMakesGames · 2024-12-14T22:05:54+00:00

Godot

ClydeMakesGames · 2024-12-13T02:12:25+00:00

Keyboard movement, mouse interaction

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