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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Social Media & Online Presence (part 4 of 7)

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So, you’ve begun committing yourself to making your indie game and are making good progress. You have a website representing your company and game’s development. But no one knows your game exists unless they look up your site directly.

Thankfully, the wonderful world of social media can help you raise awareness on your game.

Honestly, I detest social media for reasons most people already state. It’s silly to have such a desire to exist and be seen online, often when you don’t really have anything to say. But for companies and business and products, this sort of thing is invaluable, and only because of the people who already use it.

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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Making Your Game & Company “Official” (part 3 of 7)

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By this point, you’ve probably begun making your game. You’re pleased with the results so far, and believe you can commit yourself to seeing this project through to the end.

Then it’s time to get serious and go over some legal stuff you should think about.

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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Make The Game First (part 2 of 7)

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So, you’ve been thinking about that game you want to make. You’ve thought about it for a long time, and you think you know exactly how you would go about doing it. You decide you’ll post your idea on Kickstarter.com so you can get funding to start making the game…

…yeah… don’t do that. Your first step for getting funding to make your game is to make the game.

Doesn’t make sense? Hear me out. Kickstarter projects often succeed on credibility, about how much backers trust that you can make what you promise you can. Also, it’s difficult to understand exactly what the game would be without seeing the game in action. Even if you think you need money to make it, you won’t get any money without making it first. It’s a classic Catch-22 scenario.

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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Why? (part 1 of 7)

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So, you’ve been thinking.

You’ve been watching television. You’ve been reading internet news. You’ve been reading the local newspaper and magazines and books.

You’ve seen that Kickstarter is a great way to get money directly from fans/customers for you to use to create your product.

You’ve seen that many indie games have achieved success on the site.

You’ve decided that you will make a Kickstarter campaign for your game!

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So You Want To Make A Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter…

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Most of my blog posts revolve around personal views on how you should make games and how to sell them (based on my own personal views and mistakes after a tiny bit of experience). I’ve meant to do this next bit for a long time, and here it is…

A multi-part guide on “how to make a successful Kickstarter campaign for your indie game!”

A handful of you know that I had a (failed) Kickstarter campaign for my first indie game, “James – Journey of Existence.” It certainly doesn’t give me too much credibility to give you advice after only one attempt (a failed attempt at that), but I’ve learned a lot about crowdfunding and the indie community in general, and you can never have enough advice on the Internet!

Also, I know I haven’t followed this advice myself… but I wished I did, and will try to from now on. My mistakes are what led to this series.

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