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6 Top Ways to Market Your Indie Game
Begin from the get-go. Don’t wait until you are halfway through, or almost finished making your game. Start your marketing as soon as you have something to show, even if it is just a simple character mockup, level mockup, or actual beginning designs in your game engine software. As you progress keep posting images, and videos when you can, that display what you are doing with your game. Don’t wait, start marketing right from the get-go.
Richard BaileyPublished 6 years ago in Gamers- Top Story - May 2018
4 Top Tips for Beginner Indie Game Devs
1. Narrow your scope. It can be very easy to get excited about making a game you think everyone will love and want to make this incredible, complex game. Unless you are creating a game with a group of people it can be very daunting to create a very complex game. Keeping the game simple with some choices for the player is what you want to do, to begin with for your first few games. When you start off your first game with the in-depth game you’ve always wanted to make and it becomes overwhelming, many people end up giving up and feel defeated. The whole experience becomes negative instead of fun and enjoyable.
Richard BaileyPublished 6 years ago in Gamers How to Defeat the Final Bosses in 'Ninja Gaiden' (NES)
Ninja Gaiden was a side-scrolling action-platforming video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in March 1989. The game features a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa who seeks revenge for his father's death. This game was one of my favorites to play as a kid. In 1997, I had reached the first of the final three bosses, which was The Masked Devil, several times. Unfortunately, I never got past him and was forever frustrated. In 2016, 19 years after the infuriating event, I purchased an NES Classic Edition, in hopes of redeeming myself and finally defeating the final three bosses after all of those years. In this article, I'll be sharing some tips on how to trounce The Masked Devil, Jaquio, and The Demon Sculpture. If you fail to defeat all three enemies, you will have to start over at Act 6-1 and try again, regardless on the number of lives you had left.
Mark Wesley PritchardPublished 6 years ago in GamersHow to Save Everyone in 'The Letter'
The Letter is a 2017 Indie visual novel by Yangyang Mobile. It's well-praised for its well written characters, horror elements, tragic true ending, and scary ghost that everybody calls Cuddles. It's one of my favourite games from 2017 and this can be a very challenging novel, especially if you're looking for a specific route or wanting to unlock all the nodes for the game. Sometimes people get so terrified that they're too scared to play again in fear of accidentally killing their favourite character off.
Chloe GilholyPublished 6 years ago in GamersNine Great Tips To Improve 'Fortnite Battle Royal' Gameplay
Go to tilted towers, even if you are a beginner, this gets you into the action of the game and playing against other players faster. This helps you from wasting so much time looking and searching for other players to attack. Tilted towers also will help you in learning how to do combat with shotguns and other close-range weapons, as well as long-range weapons like sniper rifles. This is a great place to play a few warm-up games to get you ready for more serious squad games. Make sure you organize your loadout with your weapons. Setup an assault rifle, shotgun, maybe a secondary shotgun or a rocket launcher weapon, be sure to include a healing kit and a long range sniper rifle for when needed. You will likely be using the assault rifle the most so keep that in your first slot, followed by the shotgun to easily switch for any type of close range combat. It may take you a few seconds to set up or organized loadout but this will save you time during combat and make for easy transitions to your weapons and medkit as you are fighting. Make sure you are using a headset and have the volume turned up on the headset. This keeps people from easily sneaking up on you. You will be able to hear people running, building, shooting nearby, harvesting resources and even setting up traps in the nearby area, allowing you to be alert and paying more attention to your surroundings. In your squads and teams, make sure you are giving out good callouts for your teammates, such as "I see two at North 58, I see three at South East 257" etc. This will help your teammates with identifying where people are in the event they are nearby and can also offer some assistance. Keep up the building editing when you are inside one of your constructed buildings. Enemies cannot see that you are in the edit mode but you can see through that wall, edit a window or a door and make the edit allowing you to then start attacking the enemy player before they have a chance to respond to the building edit and where you are. This keeps you from destroying the wall and does take some practice but will pay off in the end. Hunt for shields and heals, even if you are still at 70 percent health, that extra 20 percent health can make a difference when you hit combat between life and death. Always try to keep your shield and health at a maximum. Take some time to leave combat alone for a bit until you can bring your health and shields back up. A basic tip but still important to always remember that when you are farming resources hit the blue circle. This will allow you to farm faster and keep yourself moving from resource to resource. This will allow you to farm twice as fast which means you get materials twice as fast. Thus, allowing you to get what you need and get back in action. Always crouch while using assault rifles. You will see most of the better players doing this and this makes your aim much more accurate. With shotguns, this will not be as big of a deal, but makes a difference with assault rifles, and try not to be moving too much. How good your weapon is will also make a difference i.e. a common, blue, purple or gold weapon. When using a shotgun and jumping up and down as you shoot, you want to shoot when you are at the apex of the jump, at the top of your jump. This will give your spread with the shotguns a little bit more accuracy, helping you to defeat your enemy faster. Always try for a head shot causing the most damage.
Richard BaileyPublished 6 years ago in GamersHow to Create Lighting Effect in Construct 2 and 3
Often times in your game, you might want to have your player in a dark place and add a lighting effect either to the player themselves or to torches on the wall or other objects to give the feeling of being in a dark place and provide the player with some light to see. In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to create a lighting effect in Construct 2, and this should also be able to be applied to Construct 3.
Richard BaileyPublished 6 years ago in GamersHow to Create a Tilemap Spritesheet for Construct 2 & 3
When creating a game in Construct 2, where tiles are being used, such as a platformer, top-down shooter or RPG game, using a tilemap becomes extremely useful and is the best and easiest way to go about it. Without a tilemap, you would have to create an object instance of the tile, and then make multiple instances of that object by clicking and copying, or holding CTRL, then click and drag to copy. Placing the tiles this way can become very time intensive.
Richard BaileyPublished 6 years ago in GamersEscaping 'Tarkov': Raid Tips and Tricks
Alright, let's face it: Escape from Tarkov is a difficult game with a steep learning curve, and early on without any experience, you're going to have the floor wiped with you. Let's change that. I want to give you some tips that are going to make your life a lot easier and have you pulling more dog tags than you can carry. Mind you, you'll need to have some innate skill with FPS games to begin with. I can't give you that part.
Just Another ArticlePublished 6 years ago in GamersEscaping 'Tarkov': Trading
Escaping Tarkov: Trading =============================================================== As of last year Escape from Tarkov has become my new video game muse. I absolutely love the modern take on the survival genre and its unique environments that bring a refreshing level of difficulty to the game. I'd like to pass along some information that I feel is going to give even experienced players an edge when trading in Escape from Tarkov.
Just Another ArticlePublished 6 years ago in GamersHow to Make 'Fallout 4' a More Deadly and Interesting Experience
Fallout 4 came out three years ago and I for one am still playing. I have loved the franchise since I first laid hands on it with Fallout 2 on my old XP office computer back in 2001. The unique world has always been in my top 3 picks of fantasy universes, the mix of wasteland grime and new world technology and the ability to explore it all... An absolute winner. Of course no game can ever be perfect right off the shelf and oh boy does Fallout 4 have its issues, but I felt it was lacking in the several ways. Enter the Nexusmods community. Modding has changed the way I play games and Nexusmods has made it so much easier to completely overhaul the feel and gameplay of most if not all of Bethesda's intellectual properties.
Just Another ArticlePublished 6 years ago in Gamers- Top Story - February 2018
5 Things I Learned as a First-Time Online Gamer
Two years ago, I logged onto World of Warcraft for the first time. Until then, I’d never properly played an online game – and had barely scratched the surface of gaming, period.
Sarah NittingerPublished 6 years ago in Gamers Ways to Make an Interesting House in 'The Sims'
Oh, the Sims. A franchise that began in 2000 and has created years of creativity and imagination for people all over the globe. With its quirky characters and home design system, I have personally been able to live out my fantasies or create plain chaos for my sims. My sim can be poor or live in a mansion with 7 cats, be a superstar, or live a single, party lifestyle while attending university or traveling to the local club meeting supernatural creatures. Anything is possible. One of my favorite aspects however has been that I can design a home in any way that I would like. Motherlode and Rosebud always come in handy when you are desiring that marble hot tub and stereo system... if only real life were like the sims! haha. Within this post, I would like to share photos of some of my favorite home designs that I have created within my game as this game has allowed me to spark an interest in interior design and architecture {whether it is realistic or to the extreme).
Jordan DaniellePublished 6 years ago in Gamers