I spent a few hundred R$ on sponsoring my game and the CTR is INCREDIBLY low, if so, the player count didn’t even increase. I’m trying to increase awareness of the project I’m working on atm, being making multiple “showcase” like games around my hometown, based on real places but having some made-up extras, whilst maintaining their original look.
Would you play a game with this concept? I’ve only made one place and I’m considering whether to hire scripters & UI designers to help bring my concept to reality. Is it worth investing in this project? Developing solo is hard, yet I barely have the funds to pay others so my only option would be a percentage.
In future, it won’t really be a showcase anymore but its’ own category. I plan on letting people explore cities around Europe and places in them, such as visiting the airport using a tram, then flying over to there. I’d have to look to finding scripters and UI designers for that one. Maybe another builder who can help me. How would that idea sound of making it a showcase with a twist. I had this idea for 2 months now.
I’d be glad to have at least 10 concurrent players at once. I am planning to make it more interactive/making the user want to do more such as earn ingame currency and make a housing estate soon where you can decorate your home, but thats in LATER LATER stages. at the moment, i’m focusing on creating the base first.
Most people will join a showcase game check it out and leave, it just happens. The game is nice but you may not have concurrent players because they joined said “Wow! This is cool!” and then left. Try and make people want to stay in the game add something that is more interactive.
Most of the Showcase games are meant to show people who visit your profile how good you are at building or scripting or even both. In case you want to create a game to keep players coming back make something action based or adventure based who can be understood by any nationality. For an example, i’m pretty sure a Russian player would not understand how to play ur game if everything in it is write in english and it doesnt have Localization.
Back to your game, if you want people to explore the showcase and find the beauty of it, add secrets or music to it. People nowadays are looking for Badges, try to hide things in your game and offer badges if somebody found a secret or a number of secrets.
With that being said, i want firstly to tell you that the game looks amazing so far.
Exactly! I added 1 easter egg so far which refers to a music band. It’s not really a “showcase” game but something in that style. More like a “realistic”-ish game with aspects of exploration, interaction and etc.
Work for money,
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Explore
Explore being the main part. I don’t believe this sort of game type has been tried before. For the first stages of development, I will make multiple places you can explore first with a UI or so.
