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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? "

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  1. 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.

  2. 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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