@Kelly @gamedev Chris went through the numbers in this blog post and the one before and apparently, yeah.
https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/08/21/valve-just-took-away-a-valuable-visibility-tool/
According to one developer quoted in that post, about 75% of trackable wishlists of their sequel were achieved through crosspromotion from the first game’s page.

@savvywolf @gamedev That doesn’t really serve the purpose these cross promotion methods were devised for. These are meant to help you gather wishlists for your upcoming games, which is supposed to ensure a successful launch by getting you into steam’s promotional algorithms (e.g. Popular Upcoming) as quickly as possible.
I agree that most of these techniques are too intrusive from a player perspective, though. I’d add a link in the main menu and heavily discount old games at most 🤔

@yuri Synopsis:

Magical girls are a specific class of worker that has spent years mastering the drawing of magic from their planet’s five moons. They use this magic to fight creatures of darkness that congregate in the no-man’s-land between cities. Kotori, a plucky new magical girl, hopes to find a job in one of the famous guilds of Larimar City. During a test for a guild, she and her familiar Brie Butternuggets will meet Kaida and Gigi, who are on a mission of their own for the Songbird Guild.

@visualnovels

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/sW9Zo6l4Rs8

@renpy

Some of these templates would look right at home in a VN for the upcoming spooktober jam 👀

Skolaztika also has a bunch of other high-quality templates, so taking a look at their profile is worth it

@ezlin @visualnovels yeah it was one of my first “proper” VNs as well :blobmiou:

@Kiosade @Drusenija Today was early access, the official release is July 2

@Drusenija This is one of my favorites so far!

@Drusenija pls squeenix…my crops are withering and ravens are eating my mustard seeds…just a few more glamour plates 🥺

@Drusenija the increased armory bonus 👀

@Drusenija @Berin Your glam is really cute!! I really dread cleaning out my inventory 🫠 I plan to play picto so, i should prepare some gear as well…

@ffxiv Also story-wise, Yoshi-P recommends to take a look at the Alliance raids and the convocation… 👀

@ffxiv My takeaways so far:
- Chat bubbles are on the way!
- 2-Dye channels look pretty good
- Yoshi-P mentioned multiple times that they want to get more experimental with mechanics again, and I can’t wait to see what they’ll come up with!
- I’m still unsure if I’ll like PCT or not - the paint mechanic looks kind of annoying to use with the cast-time, still gonna try it though

@teft @test Thank you for your contribution! ❤

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@TheCrimsonSpark @test @NIGHTEN :0 you’re right, that must be it! good to know~

@test
All in all you could somewhat easily “crosspost” in your home instance and lemmy as long as you don’t overdo it with the tags as they don’t look that pretty in a lemmy post body 😏

i’m kinda curious why some communities boost your posts and others don’t though

@test Final observations: Emojis do not federate :(

comments do now, but so far I only see my convo with Rubi and not Nighten’s comment.

Tags are also clickable in the lemmy version of the post, and they lead to the tags of my home instance.

Likes show up as upvotes as expected, links work as well.

The main post also shows up in the regular home platform search under the used tags.

@TheCrimsonSpark @test Yeah, you have to manually crosspost on lemmy instead, theres a button for it 🤔 Just wanted to see how much you can do without leaving your home platform

@test This one shows up on feddit properly! Conclusion: don’t tag more than one community I suppose :blobcat: