King driven opportunities for teams using Defold

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

While this nice thread is on a philosophy side now, maybe let’s try to talk about “what if” theories now?

What if… OK. Imagine. You’re working on a game, it is still like 3 to 6 months away from the release. And then you see a banner (AdWords or similar) on a random website with the screenshot of your game (you had submitted this screenshot to us a while ago for public use) and Defold logo. And there are other banners with screenshots of other games #MadeWithDefold. Clicking on these banners leads to a page at defold.com.

Would you be happy that (probably relevant) people on the internet see art from your game or would you be for whatever reasons unhappy?

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Okaaay, some teams were very much up for this. Here are the banners. Did you notice that on the internets?

Also here’s a demo of an ad at an industry event. The version with “Make better games” instead of “Build something” went to print.

[britzl]

Very nice! The banners are really inviting I think.

[viennarzc]

yeah! saw this lately at Facebook! It’s great

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

We’re tried out a new concept that we pay for a sponsorship that includes the booth, ad impressions and leaflets. Everything is given away to indies immediately. It all went well so far. We’re having another trial of this concept later this month.

[britzl]

I love seeing so many great Defold games literally covering the walls!

[AGulev]

It was great!
Thank you @Oleg_The_Evangelist and King company for this opportunity! It was a very useful conference for us!

[anon22845022]

Hopefully one day my game will be in a wall like that Thanks @Oleg_The_Evangelist, @britzl and King!

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Some of the game banners in the wilds. We don’t do proper redirects to facilitate game installs, as we’re just testing out the concepts. But at the very least, Defold devs get their game art/brand seen by people on the internet.

As usually, all comments and ideas are welcome.

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Well, be sure to keep your dev diary on the forums, so we know your Defold game is awesome.
Do post nice screenshots and art in your dev diary. Keep it alive.

We’re quite early in that “opportunities” thing and are just paving the way. So no processes, lots of pivots, give or take =]

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

This is a printed ad for a 15000 people game show gameon.lt happening in Vilnius next week. We’ve donated two expo spaces for Defold-loving indies - one on the expo floor, one on the developer zone.

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Defold indie booth at gameon.lt in Vilnius

Printed ad and a leaflet in the official giveaway. Printed in 10000+ copies.

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Here’s a nice retrospective on a White Nights conference where we’ve been with a booth. Explains some of possibilities in detail:

White Nights retrospective: we donated a big nice booth to indies and we liked it!

There’s a nice industry event in Moscow that builds bridges between East and West - The White Nights Conference or #wnconf. And King went there with a booth, gold sponsorship and a set of cool initiatives - all donated to the talented indies of the region for good. [image] [image] Look at this gorgeous booth space in central part of the expo area. It features screenshots from games #MadeWithDefold. We also had ads printed in the conference brochure and leaflets in the handbags - all featu…

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

The thread is silent, but we’ve been very busy. Below are the ads we made for games participating in our cross-promo. They’re on the first wave of getting players from King games.

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[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Suddenly Smash Bash is on the cover for TSA: http://www.thesixthaxis.com

And the article itself.

[Todor_Imreorov]

Thank you for the hard work and endless support. To Oleg and to the Defold team.

You guys will always meet some initial mistrust because of the King thing, but your actions and integrity will eventually win the indie dev community over.

It is a shame that such a great engine and group of people must have a shadow of a doubt hanging over them due to bad pr in the past, but is also inspiring to see the incredible support and generosity that king is willing to offer after all.

I think that once the offline mode and github mode become built into the engine, people will start to have more trust in king’s presents and stop looking for the catch

[sicher]

I think the best confirmation for us that we are on the right track and for new users to want to join in is that you all continue to build great games on Defold and that you are successful.

I am amazed by many of the entries to the GDC competition and really look forward to see what’s coming! Keep on keeping on (creating)!

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

Somehow I got into a whirlwind of everything and forgot to update the thread with what we’ve been doing. But then such approach probably shows we’re much more keen on tech than PR.

But here are two small things to keep the thread alive -

1. http://gdcvault.com/play/1024382 - our GDC talk with lots of Defold games mentioned.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XJmB56hSg - my dedicated talk about Defold games at PGConnects London. (Beware, I had too much coffee before leaping on the stage)
3. http://toucharcade.com/2017/03/06/gdc-2017-games-from-the-defold-competition/ - Defold games reviewed by Eli from TA at GDC.

[codecloak]

I had forgotten about this thread. Is there any opportunities i could use for my recently released game? I could really use some help spreading the word.

[Oleg_The_Evangelist]

We’re about to announce developer grants. Also there’s a #CoronaDefoldJam where you can get to some events. Then we’re planning more events for Q4 and eventually GDC SF.

We just need to finalise some of the commitments to announce more incentives.