Josh Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 The popularity of small Leadwerks games with consumers has always surprised me. Furious Frank, for example, got over 20,000 downloads. That's what led to the idea of building a consumer-facing application for Leadwerks developers to distribute their games: http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=384856486 The Greenlight campaign for Leadwerks Game Player started strong but has slowed down considerably. The benefit for players is they can safely try out small free games that are in development or concepts. The benefit for developers is that you can reach a broad audience and start building a customer base to move forward with on Kickstarter or Greenlight. Only a small subset of Steam players are willing to browse through IndieDB and risk running an executable from the web. With the Leadwerks Game Player, you'll have a safe and convenient way to share games with your friends, and games will be playable in the living room on Steam Machines. It's like our own version of IndieDB built into Steam, but it will reach a wider audience than IndieDB can. It's a new concept, and the Greenlight campaign is going much more slowly than the one for our engine. The campaign started above the #5 item, but has fallen below that level. It's still above the next item I have data for, but it should be higher. I'm kind of surprised it's so low considering how many users we have. Please vote for this on Greenlight and share it with your friends on Steam and Facebook. The most effective method is to simply message all your friends on Steam, give them the link, and tell them to vote for it. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamecreator Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I upvoted it immediately after you announced it. I don't use Lua but I know this would benefit the community (and so also me) a ton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtom Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I put another tweet out and shared on facebook. Unfortunately I don't have that many gamer friends but I guess the more it's out there the better. Quote Check out my games: One More Day / Halloween Pumpkin Run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyPython Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I upvoted it right away when you first posted about it, this will help developer's greatly. Quote OS: Windows 7 Processor: AMD A6-3420M APU integrated Radeon HD Graphics 1.50 GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 The most effective method is to simply message all your friends on Steam, give them the link, and tell them to vote for it. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtom Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I just messaged everyone in my steam friends (only about 20) most are offline but two have already said ok so that's something Quote Check out my games: One More Day / Halloween Pumpkin Run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Thanks! Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyPython Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Oh don't worry josh I've been telling people to vote for it 1 Quote OS: Windows 7 Processor: AMD A6-3420M APU integrated Radeon HD Graphics 1.50 GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 We got 12 additional votes in the last hour or so, but it will take a lot more than that. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtom Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 What about mass emailing all forum members. There's bound to be some members that are unaware. Quote Check out my games: One More Day / Halloween Pumpkin Run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 I put a mail blast out through MailChimp on the first day. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyPython Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 @Josh How many votes so far in total josh? Quote OS: Windows 7 Processor: AMD A6-3420M APU integrated Radeon HD Graphics 1.50 GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 +15 now. There might be a delay before they show up. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonan Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Do you get the same stats that we get for our Green Light campaigns for game submissions, like % of the way to top 100. I have left the Green Light community to respond to my campaign without using any other marketing routes, other than the initial Leadwerks update and my graph looks a similar shape but not as steep as yours, making 2 announcements on development progress on Green Light, didn't seem to make any noticeable difference to the number of visitors. after 3 days I had 263 yes votes, 6 289 11 300 25 308 Though my % to the top 100 has kept climbing in the last 2 weeks from 6% to 10% and I can only assume this is because other campaigns have been Green Lit, and are no longer in the top 100. In the last 4 days I have only had 3,5,5,3 visitors compared to 1013,596,178,67 in the first 4 days of the campaign. Looking at the way the graphs grow, I think that there is an active pool of Green Light community members most of whom will have visited your campaign in the first 3 days, then you pick up the pool who check once a week, then after that you might get 10 visitors or less per day. Not sure if this is steams algorithm for presenting your Green Light campaign to the steam users, which might present new campaigns to Green Light visitors more frequently than ones that have been going for longer, sharing them out more for those receiving recent yes votes, I suspect it might weight this into its algorithm, or if its simply sharing out the new visitors across all the remaining Green Light campaigns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyPython Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 check this article out guys about steam greenlight by kotaku http://bit.ly/1EWOhrV Quote OS: Windows 7 Processor: AMD A6-3420M APU integrated Radeon HD Graphics 1.50 GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.