Berin

@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 🤔

@gamejams I would love to participate in Spooktober this year but I'll be too busy with my other projects to start a new one 😩

@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

@cevn I'm happy that they could go all out with the CGI this time around but I didn't agree with the art direction and some of the characterization. Reinhard and Kircheis' designs I especially dislike, where are their luscious locks... they look like run-of-the-mill ikemen now :BlobhajSadReach: And since they decided to continue the plot with a movie series I kind of lost track of it

@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 🎉

@literalgrill @anime

The last 100+ episodes anime I've watched must've been all of the original Legend of The Galactic Heroes! It's a classic :blobcatcoffee:

Apart from that, Hunter x Hunter and Naruto

@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