#games marketing

[blacktabbygames]

"Visual Novel" is a medium, not a genre. Most bad takes from both players and devs are from getting that backwards. But there's a reason for that: VNs are one of the few subsets of games where broad/common mechanics do ~not~ denote genre.

To use an example from a category that is a genre, when you say something is a FPS, you're immediately saying something about the core unit of interaction. Let's get even more specific and say something is a boomer shooter.

When you hear something is a boomer shooter you know:

1. You'll be spending a lot of time shooting. 2. That shooting will be fast-paced. 3. Aggressive movement

You can also generally assume the aesthetic theme will be something adjacent to sci-fi or horror.

When you hear that a game is a visual novel you know: 1. That you will read. 2. You might make narrative choices (but you also might not)

That's it. That's all you know. It's the equivalent of writing a book and then telling people "this is a book." Lots of things are books!

This is because the core unit of interaction in a visual novel is ~not~ a mechanic. It's the narrative. Which means that as a dev, you need to sell the fantasy of your VN, not its loose identity.

And as a player, "I don't like books a lot of books are smut" isn't substantial.

But because most categories of games do sell genre, it means a lot of devs market their work poorly and miss out on a large cut of potential players, and a lot of players miss out on some great narratives they might have loved.

#visual novel #vndev #interactive fiction #games marketing #scarlet hollow #slay the princess

[blissy91]

Ya en Youtube un repaso cronológico con gafas moradas a la historia. del videojuego A lo largo de media hora hacemos un repaso cronológico a cómo se han vendido los videojuegos para mostar que el marketing ha sido clave para alejar a las mujeres del medio.

Es uno de los vídeos más ambiciosos que he hecho en los últimos años, espero que os guste.

#marketing #gaming #marketing videogames #games marketing #feminism #feminism in games #video game feminism #gaming feminism #retrogaming #sega #nintendo #gaming ads #anuncios videojuegos #Youtube

[prokopetz]

So, let me get this straight. Blizzard's plan for regaining audience goodwill with the 1.0 release of Overwatch 2 is to open with a heavily promoted PvE mission pack (i.e., thereby reminding everyone of the vapourware PvE campaign they built Overwatch 2's entire marketing strategy around, then quietly axed once they had everybody's money), and the premise of this PvE mission pack is basically doubling down on the broadly disliked "our heroes put down a slave rebellion" PvE storyline from the first game? Have I got all that right?

#gaming #video games #overwatch #overwatch 2 #blizzard entertainment #activision blizzard #marketing

[retrogamingblog2]

#animal crossing #new horizons #nintendo #switch #acnh #nintendo switch #villagers #funny #lol #humor #meme #relatable #blathers #fossils #museum #flick #turnips #daisy mae #stalk market #gaming #video games #ac

[alicenpai]

i love...wanpee...........🍊🍶🧡💚

#one piece #nami #zoro #one piece live action #opla #my art #alternate caption: dum dum fruit #im so happy that more and more people are getting into op it truly is the series that keeps on giving #op is a series easily misunderstood by its art style and goofiness but at its core are themes about abuse of power. its so well written #AND IM SO HAPPY I FINALLY HAVE TIME TO DRAW FANART FOR FUN AND NOT FOR LIKE. A CON OR STH AND WORRY IF MY ART IS “SELLABLE” OR “MARKETABLE” #*checks watch* apparently i havent drawn fanart for fun since december so thats like. 9 months #i had the biggest difficulty with this drawing #i actually drew this first in a lineless style. i attempted it lineless TWICE. with 2 diff brush sets/techniques #then i lined it and i was like hmm . i dont like this its too stiff #so i tried it with a lighter hand and im like !!! it clicks #i honestly do think im pretty rusty and bc of not drawing for fun in a while i dont really know what #to do with my art style direction as of late #so i may try a bunch of different things. and i hope people enjoy em regardless! #ill try to do a screencap redraw every few days this is really fun #i also havent had time for video games in months so im also relieved ill have time for more games n game fanart hopefully

[heartscrypt]

they're girlfriends and they kiss. what of it

#twst #twisted wonderland #azul ashengrotto #jamil viper #jamiazu #azujami #ashenviper #jamil x azul #azul x jamil #jazul #heartscribbles #rule 63 #? maybe. idk i just like thinking of them as girls sometimes #they dont look that different to me as girls tbh #they are exactly the same as they were #its so funny i literally didnt change anything about them their designs are still the exact same #not because o lack creativity but genuinely i think if twst was a game with only girls every character would look pretty much the same #anyways can a stock market girl and a basketball girl fall in love (the answer is yes)

[shadowed-dancer]

"Look! it's Adeptus Xiao and his 3 very normal human friends!"

(If someone wants to draw something based on this concept please tag me so I can see it. I need these 4 to interact this coming Lantern Rite)

#genshin impact #xiao #zhongli #genshin impact memes #venti #xianyun #genshin memes #cloud retainer #when I learned cloud retainer was basically pretending to be human this was the first thing that came to mind #on the one hand the fact that I have to use her drip marketing art for this instead of an in game model is annoying #but on the other hand it makes this picture 10 billion times funnier

[night-market-if]

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Welcome to the Night Market. Book 1 in a series. The Night Market is an interactive fiction novel in which you awaken to a lantern filled world with no memory of how you got there. Desperate to get home, you must find the gate that leads back to your world, while navigating a foreign land, rife with political intrigue, arbitrary rules and secrets designed to keep you distracted. Nine barons rule the market , a place so vast that not even they can truly know its scope. But, one baron holds the key to your safe return home. Yet, no one has seen or heard from them in over a decade.

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#the night market #interctive fiction #book 1 #twine game #twine fic #angst #original characters #writers of tumblr #lgbtq #poly #small author

[hccupit]

YOUR TELLING ME BETHESDA MADE A CEL-SHADED STYLIZED ACTION RYTHM GAME AND THEY JUST SHADOW DROPPED IT ? ITS SICK AS FUCK ????

#hi fi rush #THIS GAME IS SO COOL? #SHARING THIS BC XBOX DIDNT MARKET IT BYE #but if you liked nsr please this game is for u

[cemeterything]

YA novels these days are always named some cool sounding shit like "queen of blood and bone" or "the dragon assassin" but then contain neither goth necromancer royalty nor dragons, just the same cut and paste characters and tropes in different situations. it's like clickbait for books.

#🐉 #needless to say this isnt all ya lit but ive noticed among ya especially #theres this tendency for books to sound amazing in theory and then be a disppointment in practice #probably bc the market is very oversaturated there especially when it comes to anything that was done successfully once like death games #and its sad! i dont even read much ya anymore but it makes me sad when i go to the library and see whats on offer

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

#pr manager is like: andrew… this is the last time i’m gonna tell you #andrew: whats the point of democracy if i can’t exercise freedom of speech #pr manager: andrew it’s no longer about your image #at this point we are concerned the fbi is going to show up #andrew: neil has connections. i’m fine #they thought marketing andrew on social media would be good #they were sooooo wrong #because now andrew has a place to share every insane thing he’s ever thought #for instance—a tweet that just says ‘an alien googling: human clothes’ #he’s on there advocating for lgbtq+ youth you KNOW HE IS #he’s cursing and mildly threatening members of congress for imposing these disgusting bills #one day he tweeted ‘does mitch mcconnell know he’s dead yet’ #when mitch mcconnell stepped down from senate andrew tweeted ‘hopefully next he steps down from life’ #unsurprisingly: this endears him to some people and makes others fucking hate him #and he’s such a shit. he does not care either way #he’s kind of just like: pr manager. you gave me a twitter and told me to tweet. i’m just doing what you asked me #they’ve threatened to change his password so many times #they actually did once but andrew reported the account so many times for defamation and fraud that it got suspended #and he made a new account out of pure spite #his pr manager is like: andrew nobody is going to want to sign you because of your public image #and andrew is like: ?? ok. they can lose every game then #(he knows he’s the best goalie) #ok i think that’s enough for now. however i will probably be back #andrew minyard #aftg #tfc #trk #tkm #the foxhole court #all for the game

[yrlocalghost]

REJOICE. REJOICE

#apparently this is real? #hollow knight #silksong #also for the sake of clarification i am not on the side of ‘’hurry up and release the game’’ they absolutely should take their time #and i am very much glad that they are. making a game is A Lot! #this is their marketing/pr person for anyone that may not know

[prokopetz]

Techbro marketing's conflation of generative language models with the term "artifical intelligence" to the point that many laypersons now think that's what AI is definitely sucks for, like, literally everybody who's working in genuine AI research, but I have to grant the way it's gotten tangled up with other historically inappropriate uses of the term "artificial intelligence" is a little bit funny. I've seen multiple unconnected discussions involving people seizing on the "AI is inherently unethical" talking point and getting heated about bad guys in single-player video games having "AI", and, like, I'd be fascinated to know what the alternative is. I'm trying to imagine a world where it's feasible for every individual goomba in Super Mario Bros. to be directed by a human operator, and I'm not sure I can, but it's definitely a place I'd like to visit.

#computers #technology #artificial intelligence #ai #generative language models #gaming #video games #marketing #nomenclature

[retrogamingblog2]

Animal Crossing Postcards made by Stephology

#animal crossing #art #illustration #nintendo #switch #villagers #acnh #new horizons #celeste #blathers #daisy mae #dodo #able sisters #stalk market #leif #gaming #video games #cute #kawaii #artists #drawing #posters #prints #animal crossing new horizons #ac

[rainbow-taishi]

Kaveh

#shitpost #cioccolatodorima #my drawings #anime #drawing #manga #game #genshin #kaveh #i drew this during the drop kaveh's drip marketing #late post is late

[saltyfinalboss]

i really hope dead cells fans do not buy the 'windblown' game by motion twin just because it's "by the creators of dead cells", since motion twin actually cancelled evil empire's* plans for future dead cells content which was planned for at least until 2025 including at least one dlc.

(*evil empire have been developing dead cells since 2019/patch 1.3 of dead cells, for those unaware)

in this announcement post MT claims that they decided the game is finished as it is or whatever and don't want any more updates as to not make the game 'bloated', which sounds pretty reasonable until you remember that all the updates from evil empire are unique and distinct & that motion twin doesn't even make the game anymore as of 2019. so personally i think this 'reasoning' is just random shit they made up to not sound as evil as they are.

not to mention that the whole "by the creators of dead cells" thing they put in their marketing is VERY misleading. obviously motion twin initially created dead cells, yes, but by now there are only about ~3 ppl at motion twin who worked on dead cells. there are ~50 names in the credits of dead cells.

of course i can't stop anyone from buying whatever they want, but i urge people to at least read this blog post by a former dead cells dev. i feel like it's important context a fan might want to know before potentially buying motion twin's new game.

#i really want this game to suck & flop just because of what they did to the developers of dead cells (evil empire) #idk if it even needs saying but the fact they use 'by the creators of dead cells' in marketing after doing that is just sickening #dead cells #windblown #txt #evil empire #motion twin