Sunday, August 1, 2021

Thank you to fans of MKM and Animation Gifs!!

 

Hello Everyone!

As the development of the game continues to move along nicely, I must make a confession: I'm very bad at marketing the game lol.

When I talk with fellow adult game developers, they are unanimous in saying that proper marketing is very important and vital for a game's success and of course that I can objectivity understand that notion, but... the truth is that I'm not really into it, and also I'm a solo developer so in order to dedicate time to make good marketing I have to stop coding/drawing and divert my time from these tasks that actually advance the development, in order to go around the web promoting the game.

It honestly surprised me how much time and effort it takes to do good marketing and draw attention back to your game without coming off as spam, annoying or pushy. I'll be honest, before making games I used to dislike marketeers in general and used to think that it must be easiest most effortless job in the word... well, I stand corrected and take back my words, and give a shout-out to marketing people because I personally don't have the energy for that task hahaha :-)

This is why the previous (and only) round of marketing postings that I did for MKM was more than a year ago, and even then they were mostly me posting a few gifs on reddit on their appropriate sub-reddits.

Now thankfully and despite my weak marketing, the fanbase and support for the game has grown beyond my wildest expectations, mostly due to organic growth via word-of-mouth; fans of the game make posts and comment on places and forums relevant to hentai game discussion. Some fans even have showed to me some of those, but a good portion of the growth comes from places that I don't even know about!

My dream is to become a full fledged indie game developer, working on it full-time 6 days of the week and to do that your support continues to be amazing as it leads me closer and closer to that goal, as currently I'm making games as a side-job, part-time hobby if you  will.

So I want to thank you very much to all of the anonymous (and otherwise) supporters who not only lend me their direct patronage, but also indirect by talking and posting about the game to help spread awareness of it. Your support, constructive criticism, suggestion and nice words of encouragement are the fuel that keeps my motivation burning at maximum capacity!

And finally as an answer to folks who send me nice messages saying that they love the game but unfortunately they can support me directly monetarily but they wish they could, a super helpful alternative is to help spread awareness of the game in the same way as the other fans do: simply by posting and commenting in discord, sites, forums and threads around the web you're helping spread the game around!

But please, only do it if you feel in your heart and if you genuinely like the game and want to help spread awareness of it. I really don't want to force people to be my marketeers when I myself I'm not doing it as I should.

With all of that said, I will link some animation gifs that I made of some of the scenes from the game, some of which I'm also using to do a 2nd round of marketing myself for a short while, so don't be surprised if you see a couple of them in the wild hehe and if you wish to use them as well or simply want to save them, it is all good!


Well this about wraps it up. Thank you again for your time, and I give you my best regards!
Laek

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