QOTD : Where to post?

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Socoder -> Question of the Day -> QOTD : Where to post?
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 17:04
Jayenkai	Every Tuesday I finish off a game, and then have to start doing a multipost to a few other sites. So far on my list is.. 1. AGameAWeek - The Jay Archive - because, this is where I upload it!! 2. AGameAWeek - Blog - because that's the whole point of it! 3. Here, obviously!! duh!! 4. TIGsource - I have a 4 page (and growing) forum post that gets extended each week, but that I'm about 99.9% sure nobody bothers to read. 5. RetroRemakes - If the game has a retro feel, I'll occasionally post it there. 6. Curly's World of Freeware - Sometimes, if a game's turned out really well, I'll post it there, too. 7. 2BeesInDePub - And if it's really really good, it gets posted over there.. Those are my regulars. But.. What else is there?! Where else can a guy post his warez, without being one of those git'ish spammers.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 17:19
HoboBen	reddit's /r/gamedev is full of awesome people (though if it's not open source they might bite your head off!) There's also /r/gaming. In fact I did submit JNKPlat 2010 to /gaming (hope you don't mind!) and it was well received considering all /gaming usually cares about is Valve and Team Fortress 2! -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 17:33
Jayenkai	I always felt that reddit was a "I found" as opposed to "I made" kind of place. Would feel a bit spammy posting my own stuff there. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 17:55
HoboBen	Well, it's not spammy if you're actually a part of the community there, i.e. contributing and commenting too. But it varies from subreddit-to-subreddit, i.e. the gamedev subreddit is probably happy enough if you're just a indie game dev. The focus is often less on the links and more on the discussion around the content (you don't even have to link to anything; you can do a "self" post) and the most important part is actually submitting to the relevant subreddit (/programming probably wouldn't care). You could perhaps give it a try for just a week to see if you enjoy it enough (it's really not like Digg - the user comments are (usually!) actually worth reading and the comment system is actually good!). You only start subscribed to the top 10 subreddits, so you might want to add others such as /physics, /gamedev, /bacon, /whatever -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 18:09
HoboBen	If you feel like paying money for the privilege, you could try the GameProducer.net / GameRelease.net Indie Press Release Service - the releases are sent out even to sites as big as Yahoo. It's limited to once a month though - for a game a week you might have to argue something. -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 18:15
Jayenkai	I wish! I'm not in any kind of position to start paying for this!! sux -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 08 Jun 2010, 18:47
HoboBen	Heh Jay, we'll have to have a SoCoder fundraiser! Perhaps even a communal account there might be interesting! -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code