MegaBlueBall
patreon
A thank you to fans of MKM!!!
🕑 Added 2021-08-01 19:37:53 +0000 UTCHello Everyone!
As the development of the game continues to move along nicely, I must make a confession: I'm very bad at marketing the game lol.
When I talk with fellow adult game developers, they are unanimous in saying that proper marketing is very important and vital for a game's success and of course that I can objectivity understand that notion, but... the truth is that I'm not really into it, and also I'm a solo developer so in order to dedicate time to make good marketing I have to stop coding/drawing and divert my time from these tasks that actually advance the development, in order to go around the web promoting the game.
It honestly surprised me how much time and effort it takes to do good marketing and draw attention back to your game without coming off as spam, annoying or pushy. I'll be honest, before making games I used to dislike marketeers in general and used to think that it must be easiest most effortless job in the word... well, I stand corrected and take back my words, and give a shout-out to marketing people because I personally don't have the energy for that task hahaha :-)
This is why the previous (and only) round of marketing postings that I did for MKM was more than a year ago, and even then they were mostly me posting a few gifs on reddit on their appropriate sub-reddits.
Now thankfully and despite my weak marketing, the fanbase and support for the game has grown beyond my wildest expectations, mostly due to organic growth via word-of-mouth; fans of the game make posts and comment on places and forums relevant to hentai game discussion.
Some fans even have showed to me some of those, but a good portion of the growth comes from places that I don't even know about!My dream is to become a full fledged indie game developer, working on it full-time 6 days of the week and to do that your support continues to be amazing as it leads me closer and closer to that goal, as currently I'm making games as a side-job, part-time hobby if you will.
So I want to thank you very much to all of the anonymous (and otherwise) supporters who not only lend me their direct patronage, but also indirect by talking and posting about the game to help spread awareness of it. Your support, constructive criticism, suggestion and nice words of encouragement are the fuel that keeps my motivation burning at maximum capacity!
And finally as an answer to folks who send me nice messages saying that they love the game but unfortunately they can support me directly monetarily but they wish they could, a super helpful alternative is to help spread awareness of the game in the same way as the other fans do: simply by posting and commenting in discord, sites, forums and threads around the web you're helping spread the game around!
But please, only do it if you feel in your heart and if you genuinely like the game and want to help spread awareness of it. I really don't want to force people to be my marketeers when I myself I'm not doing it as I should.
I've created some animation gifs that I'm using for this 2nd round of marketing, and I've linked them in a recent devlog on itch.io's MKM page, as well as a in my blog (both are a copy-past of this post, but have links to the gifs at the bottom).
Well this about wraps it up. Thank you again for your time, and I give you my best regards!
Laek
Comments
Ashton Oley
Not the dev but you can't go past the Lizard Town yet. All of the new stuff was added through the Abandoned Mine > Crystal Cavern > Swamp
Benjamin Campbell
i very much enjoy your game, but how am i able to transfer saves? i downloaded a new version of the game that said there was new content. the game i played before ended at the lizard town, and when i opened up the new version of the game, it still wouldn’t let me go past the lizard town and said the levels were in development
Vik Virtue
Oh, I just noticed it, but congrats on making it past the 1K mark! Glad to see more people chipping in to the support pool.
Artem
Just as a FYI it might be worthwhile to market the game in Eka's, given its large amount of vore content, and maybe in F95.
Mega Blue Ball
haha indeed Vik! You're one of the OG's following me form the very beginnings , and I've enjoyed every single talks and discussions we've had about ideas and designs. Your support is deeply appreciated!!
Mega Blue Ball
Thank you for the nice words and encouragement!
Mega Blue Ball
Thank you! It's always nice to get to know more fellow game devs Hit me up on the dms! Always love to hear about favourite characters as well, I'll keep aiming to make more fun ones!
HenBor
But in short 1) report the game on the thematic forum, in your case, because there is a many vore - Eka's portal 2) create accounts on pixiv/devianart and publish descriptions of updates there (with thematic tags) 3) make the releases public, but add a connection to patreon to the game (there is the necessary package on the assetstore (although I can give a modified one, there are shortcomings in assetstore solution)) and for a subscription, open locations that are in development. Thus, the game will be constantly updated not only for patrons, but in the public field and will attract more people 4) create a roadmap so that subscribers can see what they are paying for
HenBor
Hello from another developer of hentai games, in general, in our case, marketing is quite simple, if you want details, write to me on patrion or we can link in discord, I would be happy to help a colleague Although, looking at $ 1000 a month, everything is going very well for you, even with your current efforts
Vik Virtue
So far from humble beginnings, huh? Well, I personally think you deserve every bit of recognition you get. If it wasn't for the fact that your game is already talked about on the couple places I frequent the most, I'd definitely spread the word more. I'm glad I found out about your patreon when you started it out, cause it's been a really fun adventure from day 1, and I'm excited to see where it'll go from here. I hope you do get to do this full time in the future.
Omnibreed001
On behave of your supporters, your game is pure art and we all love it, thank you for making it.
Zawkian Puppy
Yes! I support you on here and also keep your game links in my game's own discord! Really love the your work and dedication, I will spread even more the most I can. So people can see this amazing piece of art. Coding is quite hard, and man I'm doing a visual novel! So I'm not even using the more complex stuff, I would like to talk to ya on discord or anywhere really, just a bit of chit-chat and share ideas. Maybe a crossover who knows! Hahaha! Anyway, keep it up. I'm really stunned how fast you do these updates, I'm a vig fan of the mushroom girl, the ghost, the kobolds and God the werewolf! Hehehehe have a great day!
