Didn’t follow my usual task planning/breakdown/real-time notes as per the last few days. Probably because I spent half of today procrasto-pondering what to do next.
Kickstarter plans
I spent a few hours thinking about Kickstarters, PR/Marketing, trailers, then shared the latest build, wrote some emails etc. I have a few friends in game development whose opinions I really trust, so I’m going to talk through my plans for 2017 with them and see what they think. I wrote a pretty lengthy email, which doubled as a way for me to get my thoughts straightened out, and it’ll ease my mind if I get some positive feedback on that.
I’ll be thinking about my timeline from now until a Kickstarter launch and how I can get a big enough audience to support a successful Kickstarter. Currently, I have a grand total of 52 email/newsletter subscribers, 100 Facebook fans (TBH, I bought some likes on this to play with some ads and look at some other Facebook features that required 100 fans!), 830 something Twitter followers and 16 Youtube subscribers! Not huge numbers! I believe I’ll need around 5-10x these numbers prior to launching a Kickstarter, to make sure I don’t waste my time.
I’ll probably do a trailer prior to the Kickstarter, but I’m not exactly holding my breath that this will help all that much, as the teaser last year fell a bit flat with 1200 views. On the other hand, I’ll have a playable build to share with press at this point, which may spur a lot more coverage than the teaser, which was overly light on gameplay footage.
Sent Out Build to Testers
I just shared the Rezzed build for EXO ONE with a fairly large handful o’ testers as it’s such a stable build, and I’m fairly happy with the energy system etc, so looking for hopefully a lot of feedback on it before legit starting planet number 2!
Planet 2
This will be almost the opposite of the warmer first planet, and I look forward to sharing my first steps of the creation of this dark, super cold planet! It’s been ages since I’ve started a new scene and started working on a new planet so I’m super keen to get stuck into it. Probably lots of screenshots coming soon!
Short blog post for today but that happens if I haven’t done much! Unsure whether to call today a big procrastinating, lazy failure or ‘necessary down time for thinking’.
*Shrug!*