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Game Company Startups And The Linux Community?

Posted by Cliff on from the on-getting-noticed dept.

jeremy_d_peterson asks: "I've been having some trouble advertising my company and our game. How different is the Linux community from the computer game community in general? How do you advertise your game? How do you get the news passed around? Having had difficulty getting information posted on sites like Slashdot and linuxgames, what other forums are there for this kind of info? "

4 comments

  1. Re:More Information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    We should start but hiring a webmaster :)

    FYI. You're not required to download any of those libraries in order to play the game, they're included in the download. They're provided separately as source for the convieience of users who want to play with them and to fufill the obligations of the LGPL.

    Jeremy Peterson.
    Lead Programmer, Past Tree, Inc.

  2. More Information by nathanm · · Score: 1

    You might want to include more information on the games. The screenshots look good, but I couldn't tell what platform it was for until I looked at the demo download page. Also, are all those libs req'd for the Linux version, or just to enable sound, etc?

    Hope that helps. Good luck!

  3. Freshmeat, Game Tome, Linuxapps by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 2

    You should start by submitting your game to the various software repositories. Most of them also list commercial software and I have found such places a great medium for people to find your software. Worked for me.

  4. What to do by brank · · Score: 2
    The trick to letting people know you have a product is to distribute a lot of information to a lot of people. So your goal should be to create as much useful information (screenshots, complete specs, etc), organize it nicely, and then seek out places that will either post this information or link to it. Freshmeat is good for announcements, or you can get a whole project hosted at SourceForge.

    Also, do things like adding yourself to search engines or putting ads on DoubleClick. It's the Internet equivilant of the YellowPages ads.

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    it's green.