Posts Tagged ‘game promotion’

Aside from submitting the game link to blog sites, I’ve also been submitting the SWF itself to flash game sites, such as Newgrounds and Kongregate. Actually, the sponsor submitted it to Newgrounds. I think they’re also going to submit it to other sites, so I don’t have to do a lot of the SWF propagation work.

So far, OrbBlaster’s garnered pretty positive reviews, managing to make front page on Newgrounds. It’s doing okay on Kongregate, which I think is because it doesn’t have any badges or achievements tie-ins for the site. Kongregate players love the achievements so I might have to implement some sort of it.

Spreading the SWF is a great way to reach other players, but I probably should have put a more visible link to doogog.com. Currently, it’s inside of the Credits button, which seems like not many people check out.

I also submitted my site to the Yahoo and Google directories, and am going to try linkdumps, too.

In this post, I’m going to talk about my experience in promoting OrbBlaster through flash blog sites. Hopefully, it’ll be helpful for developers who are looking for ways to promote their flash games on their own sites.

Before I completed OrbBlaster, I figured I needed a good looking site to present it. So my brother over at phuson.com designed and set up the site for me. Then how would people know to visit my site? Well, I’ve been submitting the link to flash/web gaming blog sites such as jayisgames and thegameslist.

The best case scenario is that those blog sites enjoy the game, and make a post about it like Mark Hurst over at goodexperience. OrbBlaster was also featured over at Jonas’ blog at wearegame. So far, the link made its way to European sites somehow, and I’ve been getting a lot of hits from ollo. Awesomes!

I realized I didn’t know that many other flash gaming blog sites, but I’ll probably find more as I dig around. If you have tips or other gaming blog sites I could submit to, please leave a comment about it or contact me!