For context : have no idea how they found about it, but I love that they are illuminating indie games. And VICE.com has 12 million monthly readers. This is insane for me , because for a long time I was struggling for the game to be noticed. (If you want to follow how development of the game is going, a simple wishlist on Steam will be well appreciated.

  • Electric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    It’s cool you guys allow it. I find banning self-promotion is such a stupid rule for a games community. It’s cool seeing people make games, too!

    • Dremor@jlai.luMEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Rule 3 is about “excessive” self-promotion. Self-promotion is allowed, spamming is not.

      I understand it isn’t verry clear (I’m working on that), but as a mod, I usually do not remove if the following conditions are met :

      • OP do not spam his game, once every 2 weeks is fine, once every two day is not.
      • OP post objective is to spark a constructive discussion around said game. Good post forms are :
        • A video trailer that accurently depict gameplay (to filter those low-effort games whose trailers are 100% cinematics)
        • A text post that talk about the game without being just a steam description.
      • OP ask for mods permission to advertise his game. @[email protected] (sorry for the ping 😋) didn’t at first, got removed, but was nice enough to ask the mod about it, thank to what we found this arrangement.
      • OP engages in the conversations. Those 1 day account that post their games, never to be seen again, will be removed without mercy.

      All those implicit rules helps to keep this community free of advertisements for low-effort cash-grab games, and preserve everyone enjoyment of this community.