Hello fellow developers,
I advertised my game with around 50k robux, and it gave me a decent amount of visits for a few days. Once the ads stopped, the player-base completely died!
The game is quite a popular style of game (that being cart ride). Despite this, I feel that the game has lots of adventure elements that I feel make it far more refined than others.
My issue is that I have no idea how to grow this game and get it picked up by the algorithm. I thought ads would help, but they didnt do anything really.
Does anyone have any advice? Does anyone see any glaring issues with my game? Feedback would be greatly appreciated!
The algorithim will put games on the front page if it thinks the game has potential to make them money. The things you want to make sure are perfect are
Retention (player coming back)
Monetization (player spending money)
Play time sessions (player staying in game for long)
Clickability (player seeing game sponsored on front page and clicking it)
You will want the icon to make the player want to see the game and you want the name to explain the entire game idea very simply like “Grow a Garden”, player already knows entire game idea and can tell if they want to play it or not.
Yeah probably
Text is too basic, it needs to be bigger with a more 8 bit font (most people like 8 bit font) and with a black stroke on white text color. The white outline on the noob just looks too plain and like anyone could do that if they spent 5 secs in photoshop so I recommend making it bigger with a black outline then a white outline after that which also a lot of people like. Make the entire icon more bright since it just looks too dark and dismul
Yeah,
The game does seem very 2008 styled so most people wouldn’t overly like it but some who really like nostalgia would love it. It depends on who you want to please.
I think the issue is the fact that someone will find the game, play it, and then never come back, it isn’t advertising that is the issue, it’s that cart ride games aren’t retainable, the ones that are – contain buyable admin and other things to make players come back, Cart ride games aren’t fun because you ride a cart. It’s because of the crazy gamepasses, gears, and other things at the end of the cart ride that make the game retainable.
Cart ride games are only retainable, because of gamepasses/gears that are used to troll other people.
Ah I see, when players get to the end of this cart ride, it causes a disaster that destroys the map. I see your point though. I should really advertise this point more
