@Elevator7009sAlt
“@ [website] @ web.brid.gy” for each!

@Elevator7009sAlt bridged accounts don’t show up in the search for me either unless I search the whole account name, it’s really weird 🤔

BTW these here should populate soon-ish as well:

@otomekitten.com
@otomeology.com
@noisypixel.net
@vnstudioelan.com

@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 🤔

@Elevator7009sAlt I mainly play on PC but I’d love to play more on mobile, just so I can play more on the go. I have long commutes so that would be ideal…The thing is that most mobile games are freemium or gacha and searchability on the google play store is absolutely awful. It’s hard to find good games ; v ; Maybe I should check itch for possible games first, you can filter by platform there 🤔

@Boomkop3 Yeah I guess 🤔 I wish they could provide an optional image-button UI for the socials widgets so theyre easier to see at least…

Chris also wrote that his next blog post will be about alternative strategies to cross-promote games. I’m curious what he’ll come up with

@Elevator7009sAlt Her actual fedi-account is inactive but she’s sharing her blog posts automatically via webmentions at @/blerdyotome.com@web.brid.gy

@otomegames Half of the LIs are male, and you can pick the protag’s pronouns, so this counts as an otome according to the rules, right? 😁

I also discovered that BlerdyOtome is now mirroring her blog posts on the fediverse, so keeping up with the news will be a lot easier 🎉

@Elevator7009sAlt I think it might be the latter, judging by the steam page and apparent number of wishlists🤔 But I’m happy to see more JP indies regardless

@visualnovels

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/sW9Zo6l4Rs8

@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

@lorty I’m trying to clear Eureka Orthos (which would be my first Deep Dungeon clear) for glam. Apart from that I’d like to finish the raid tier as well, I’ve only cleared P8S :/