Share Your Games
summary
Shared the game as a playable prototype from day one and a public devlog on TIGSource and Twitter, then sells preorders through a Humble widget and reaches 100 preorders in six months. The build is a tile‑laying dungeon crawler released July 2015, gets greenlit, signs with Versus Evil, peaks at #6 on Steam top sellers, sees ~5,000 concurrent Twitch viewers on launch day and a YouTube video with ~400,000 views, later lands on the iOS front page.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 7:41Drinking Rampage
- 8:37Captains of Industry
- 9:18Futility Rpg
- 11:19Guild of Dungeoneering
- 13:20No One Is Going To Steal Your Idea
- 17:35Early Days of Sharing
- 18:31Asking for Pre-Orders
- 20:23Sharing Your Work
- 21:15Pick an Interesting Visual Style
- 26:41Finding a Publisher
- 27:05Pitching a Publisher
- 28:59Co Optional Podcast
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