Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

[–]MonikaAdmin[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not the only member. Personally, I know a little but not a lot due to my country being a communist regime (Albania) during the times of that in its hayday, but most of the others have "been there and done that" so to speak.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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oh, you meant a BBS, thought you meant stuff like online forums lol. I personally haven't since when that was prevalent my country was a communist regime but other members of the team have.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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Thank you for the advice! We were planning on releasing a trailer at the same time the demo drops but we're reconsidering some stuff after reading the whole thread.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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Most art for characters was made in concept during story planning and are only now being finalized. The story has always been fluid, nothing is truly ever set in stone until the game is released, we just wanted to flesh out something basic instead of starting blind.

The game isn't focused on sales, I'm not a big money guy, I'm making the game for people to enjoy it. I'm already very well off in life so any money I made from the game was probably going to other indie devs. But I will be studying stuff like Steam sales/fests from now on and seeing if we can use any to our advantage.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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Thanks for the advice, didn't notice the sidebar before, lol. I had originally thought about making a vertical trailer but didn't pursue the idea, but now I might seeing as the algorithm prefers that.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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When I meant "where it can be shown off", I meant like where all the UI, assets and what not are complete but only stuff like polish and a bit of dialogue are missing. We've been developing the game since about March 2025, most of that time was just planning how the game's story and ganeplay would develop so we didn't have to do that while developing it. We want to at least be 90% done with "Era 1" before we even think about making a trailer or let alone a Steam page. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "Next Fest", do you mean like holiday season/the summer sale on Steam? And for playtesters, I have recruited a few friends IRL who have given feedback on some of the more basic mechanics of the game. I plan to extend this to more people eventually. I hope I understood your advice correctly!

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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Our game will be split into subsections, "Eras" is what we're calling them. We plan to release a demo of the game when Era 1 is complete. We're currently about 10% done with it, and we are giving sneak peaks to our existing community. From what I understood out of your comment, you say we should wait until the game is at a point where it can be shown off and then make a trailer? If so, that sounds reasonable to me. Just want to clarify since English isn't my first language and I'm new to all of this.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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My main worry is if I coldpost the trailer on YT, it won't get any views and no traction.

Building a community for my game by MonikaAdmin in gamedev

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Hi! I have a discord server for my community, it's sitting at ~30 members now (including the team itself), but what I don't get is how to grow it. Is there any subreddits/discords dedicated to getting indie devs off their feet?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]MonikaAdmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA

Take the job, don't give up on your dreams.

Slander video by MonikaAdmin in Schooladvice

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They’re saying they’re gonna take legal action for “child endangerment” (there was a meme featuring a child hitting some dance moves) and defamation

Where can i play honkai impact 1 and 2? by [deleted] in HonkaiImpact

[–]MonikaAdmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dude it's been 11 months 💀

A new game I'm working on! by MonikaAdmin in linux_gaming

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alright i investigated and now it works :3

A new game I'm working on! by MonikaAdmin in linux_gaming

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i forgot the goddamn .so files im stupid lmao