What strategies have you found most effective in promoting your games? Have any of you experimented with Facebook ads, Instagram ads, or TikTok ads? Or did anyone find any success with marketing/PR services?

Any recommendations or tips would be incredibly valuable to me as I navigate this exciting journey. And my apologies if this question has been asked before.

Thanks in advance for your input!

In the sea of indie comic, sticker artists, and zine booths I found Indiepocalype!

Seems like a fun way to get some of your more unique games published:

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Let us know if you submit something!

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First of all, let us introduce ourselves:

Hello everyone, we are the "Devil & Angel Studio" mobile game production team from Hong Kong.​

Like most game fans, we have a very important and indispensable position in our lives. Whether it is PC Games, OnlineGames or mobile games, they have given us many different ideas. Originally due to the fact that we does not know anything about the code, although have some ideas, we never thought we could "make" the games. However, in the summer of 2016, by coincidence, we discovered the “GameSalad”, an ultra-powerful drag-and-drop game-making software that provided an opportunity for people like us who would not have a program to make mobile games.

So far we have produced and launched more than 20 mobile games and are making money.

Through our efforts, we have successfully solved many GameSalad problems. For example, a developmental game with more data calculations has been produced.

We have also received the attention of fund owners this year. If successful, a substantial sponsorship will be available.

We would like to express our gratitude to GameSalad for bringing us an unprecedented opportunity to realize our dreams.

We also don't mind doing our part to promote GameSalad. If you have any ideas, please feel free to contact us.

Below are the relevant links of our team，If you have any questions or would like to cooperate with the project, please feel free to contact us!

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We know for a lot of you, publishing to the app store is a headache.

IAP, Ads, signing. It's all a drag!

- Don't want to deal with signing and submissions anymore?

- Don't want to pay for an Apple Developer Account?

- Let us handle it for you?

At least that's the idea... and we want your opinion on how this might work!

Just to be clear, if we do this, this will be completely voluntary on both sides.

You wouldn't have to publish through us and we can reject apps.

It's just a new service we think we'd like to offer to help get more GameSalad games out into the world!

So, please answer a few questions on your opinion on such a service.

Thank you!

https://forms.gle/AXYGZ7QqTZZJ9mWJA

If you're earning less than $1-million on the Apple App Store, you can apply to the Apple Small Business Program and get that 30% cut Apple takes down to 15%!

https://www.mobilemarketingreads.com/developers-can-now-enroll-for-reduced-app-store-fees/

I have had trouble making money from my games? I have used AdMob/Revmob in the past, but they have only brought me trouble and stress. In addition, how do you guys market your games and get them known? Is there a solid way to make money and/or get your app out on the top charts?

~G4L

For instance is it too different from the look and feel of the App Store images? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fusionx-tournaments/id1525566623

Humor is sometimes a difficult sport. What do you think about the "Game of the year" stamp? I think it's funny :)

I'm currently getting around 50 installs per $1 I spent on advertising.

Thing is I'm advertising in countries like Jordan, Iraq and Egypt which have very low CPM (about 60k impressions / $1)

So

Of course I'm not making any money from these countries but their good for downloads and perhaps organic Google Play store installs from neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait where there's potential for IAPs.

for this rate of CPI (0.02¢) do you guys think it's worth it to spend more on advertising in these countries with no IAPs for long term organic downloads??

I have a problem when it comes to adding my UNPUBLISHED IOS app to chartboost where it says that App ID is not found and i can't added it to the Dashboard !!

Is it necessary to submit my app to the App store first then submit another update contains the ads from chartboost or is there a way around this so i can publich my first version of the app WITH the chartboost ads on !?!

I was wondering if it was a good idea to put my own name on a splash screen when launching the app.
Like "created by john doe" or something similar.

Is it something people do?
or is it best that i find myself some sort of Dev name?

What do you guys think? and what do you guys do?

Thanks

The amount of money that they ask is also quite high, 3 zero digits at least....is that normal?
I mean, already the fact that they guarantee an award in important challenges brings me not to submit my game to any of them, everything is pre-organised.

Congratulations on your recent feature for your game, SOS Defense.
Amazon just launched a new service, Amazon GameOn, that enables game developers to add competitions and tournaments to your games. In addition, the service provides developers the opportunity to deliver real world prizes with minimal effort. After evaluating SOS Defense, I think tournaments could be a super interesting feature to think about adding to the games. If your team has 30 min, I’d love to give an intro to the service, in addition to some marketing opportunities that we may have available for your games.

I explained to them that I do not have control over the engine, but maybe this represents an opportunity for the whole community and that gives us a differential to those who work with this engine.

Hi @adent42 I send you a PM, what do you think of this? according to Amazon people this could be integrated in less than a week.

Regards,
Roque

So my question is, should I create a logic that destroys and re-spawns my banner ads every 5 seconds? in other words, are you losing money by having a banner ad just sit there through-out the game instead of creating a logic that restarts the banner ad every 5 seconds or so?

What is the truth behind these banner ads? do you get paid more for having it sit there 1 minute vs. 3 seconds? or does it all equally count as 1 impression at the end? and therefore you should have a logic that restarts these banner ads every 5 seconds because then you'd get 12 impressions in 1 minute vs. 1 impression in 1 minute.

I recently launched a marketing business where I do work for a couple of major companies. While this keeps me pretty busy, i long decided that when I break out on my own, I was going to spend some time in helping out my two passions - games and comics.

As such, i have started the AGi program (apps and games iniative) where i will choose some apps, games and services to help go to market stronger and get more traction - as marketing can be a hard game (excuse the pun)

You can read about it here if you so wish —> https://getgoodboy.com/agi/ - and submit your game for consideration if you so wish

Or ask me any questions here or contact me on Linked In - my name is Henning Brazer. Feel free to check my credentials

What I will focus on is monetization, through ad support or billing, marketing, licensing and a few other bits and bobs - basically anything to help your game get more exposure.

I can’t promise i have all the answers / and I can’t promise will be able to help a lot - but I’ll definitely try

Let me know.

Ps, I’ll be hopping around Europe for the next 3 months and will attend the Prague affiliate conference if anyvody wants to meet up

Thanks

• I'm not a programmer, I've been using GameSalad for about 2 years or more and created my game on it... it has some glitches.
• I'm thinking that if a publisher really digs it, their company will have REAL programmers that can remake it without glitches.

... or should I learn programming for 2 years and remake my game in COCOS2D or something...?

Opinion greatly appreciated!

I tried to discuss this with them but their answer was that: "they have so many users that its hard for them to remove all the users that don't follow all the process.
I try to contact them via the email they provide but they never responded.
They have a chat but they go offline in the middle of the conversations and without answering you questions.

Conclusion:
Nice concept but needs some work.
If you decide to use this site, just keep in mind that you might not get all the reviews you pay for.
In my personal experience, I received only half of the reviews I payed for.

Here is my link to kick it off: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rolling-joe/id875239377?ls=1&mt=8

THANKS!