What indie game publishers do you recommend?
Hey guys,
I'm working on my first game that I plan on publishing once it's ready.
I was wondering how everyone here publishes their games?
Self published or publishers?
If you're using publishers I'd love to hear about your experience and who you recommend publishing with.
Thanks :)
I'm working on my first game that I plan on publishing once it's ready.
I was wondering how everyone here publishes their games?
Self published or publishers?
If you're using publishers I'd love to hear about your experience and who you recommend publishing with.
Thanks :)
Comments
What platform/s you are planning to release and what genre game is it?
I'm mainly focusing on PC (Windows) and I guess it's Genre is Board Game / Adventure.
For which publishers to look at, I suggest you do research in 2 ways: 1) search for lists of indie-friendly publishers and research the publishers in those lists, and 2) look for other games that are similar to what you're making, see who published those, and research them. Then, do your research on what those publishers are looking for and what they can do for you - it's a two-way street here. Ask other game devs they've worked with how the experience was. Once you have a short list of publishers you want to reach out to, polish your pitch (lots of resources on this), and reach out to them. If you can arrange an introduction from someone else that goes a long way. Then send those pitches on and be prepared to follow up and take the discussion further.
If you do get a publisher make sure they will atually mean something, like do marketing.
I've done some research and there are many free to publish platforms that only take 15% - 30% from the sales.
Publishers seems to take a high % of the sales but handles all the advertising and marketing, resulting in higher sales, and thus making allowing a person to get his name/brand out there a lot faster.
Thanks for the input though. :)