Hi fellow developers! I am in need of game visits and retaining players in my game.Its a battlegrounds type of game so it won’t function when there are no players.However to combat this I have added a dummy that will respawn an infinite number of times.
I have tried promoting my game on TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram but it appears I am only getting a few people actually trying my game and a few hundred views per video.I currently don’t have the budget to advertise it so Im sticking with the organic social media route.
If yall have any idea on how to promote my game,get people playing it and hopefully buying the gamepasses I would be extremely grateful​:sob:
Upon first glance, the thumbnail looks not the best. I’d either suggest creating your own thumbnail by drawing or creating a render, or include a video trailer of the game instead. The samurai is not cutting it.
This is what players will see when they join the game. I think there are two main problems with this screenshot alone:
The starting ability for any game should be something cool or fun. Hooking players in with something interesting to use would entice them to actually use its moveset. Be honest, would you really want to play with a wood block when you can join other games which offer every cool character for free?
The empty server. The battlegrounds genre, in my opinion, is one of the hardest types of games to succeed in. There are two reasons for this - first, it is because it heavily relies on fun PvP. But if there are no players to fight against, then what’s the point? The second reason, not related to the screenshot, is because there are a plethora of other battlegrounds games to choose from made by a team of highly talented developers. It’s very hard to stand out from the top games if you don’t offer anything unique.
Overall, while the VFX and sounds are pretty cool, I personally would stray away from the battlegrounds genre in general and look towards a different form of fighting to achieve success. Hack and slash roguelite dungeon crawlers could be something you could go for? Anything can go, as long as it is unique and something that stands out from other games.
1)I’ll fix the thumbnail.Is taking a screenshot of my game then adding a logo fine? Lmk how you would do it
I do agree with you that other battlegrounds game offer cool and unique characters for free upon joining and that’s where my game defers from theirs.In my game, you would have to earn some money to buy better weapons which have cooler vfx and more damage.You can argue it doesn’t have the characteristics of other battlegrounds games but to me a few differences would make it stand out.Let me know what you think about this!
Yea the empty server hurts.I would probably need to team up with an animator to make better skills… But I’m working towards promoting this game so it would occasionally get players all the time so the server isn’t always empty . Any tips on this?
I also just finished the global leaderboards and I’m working on the ult bar as well as 4 new skills for each weapon.
for the thumbnail probably just take of a screenshot of a cool/big skill, as someone seeing the cool skill might make them want to grind so that they can also use the skill
Maybe do what some other games have done, like when you come in there is a fun “page” for like 10 seconds and display your highest/
strongest characters or swords.
I also recommend adding like 1 or 2 robux items you can buy
by fun “page”. do you mean TikTok and posting a 10 second clip of my game?
And yea I do have a gamepass item which is the rifle for 699 robux.The rest are dev products and gamepasses tho
And what I meant by “fun”. I meant that there will be like the game logo and name with a few of the best levels I don’t think doin doing a video would help really. but if you’ve ever played jailbreak if you go on it once you join the game it goes through the game like I got like a drone view and you can see what the game is about. And attracts players when they see what it’s about.
