Okay, guys(and maybe girls, if such a thing exists). Only about...3 other people aside from me respond to these posts. We need to brainstorm ideas of how we can increase popularity of Sugar Shooter, Dudedle Studio, and the Dudedle Studio Forum. Any ideas?
lol Welllll, one of the main problems is the people who already have joined just aren't active for some reason.
Quote from: AlexRexx on August 01, 2011, 08:42:00 PM
lol Welllll, one of the main problems is the people who already have joined just aren't active for some reason.
Then we need more stupid posts. Honestly, I felt really self-conscious about posting something on here. But now, I really want to help, cause you all aren't douches :3
But yeah, we need a lot of stupid & silly posts that can invoke thought or inside jokes
Quote from: Reiga on August 01, 2011, 08:46:56 PM
Quote from: AlexRexx on August 01, 2011, 08:42:00 PM
lol Welllll, one of the main problems is the people who already have joined just aren't active for some reason.
Then we need more stupid posts. Honestly, I felt really self-conscious about posting something on here. But now, I really want to help, cause you all aren't douches :3
But yeah, we need a lot of stupid & silly posts that can invoke thought or inside jokes
Yeah, that'd really suck if we were all douches. lol?
No one's stopping you from doing something to attract more people to post, but I honestly don't know what to tell these people.
There are many people registered, so I'm wondering where they are as well lol
Unfortunately, it's hard to be active when I'm working on the game though. >_<;
Also, Reiga, post your highscore! There's a highscore thread :D
Quote from: punipen on August 01, 2011, 08:55:20 PM
There are many people registered, so I'm wondering where they are as well lol
Unfortunately, it's hard to be active when I'm working on the game though. >_<;
Also, Reiga, post your highscore! There's a highscore thread :D
If one thing's obvious the best thing to do to attract men to anything is porn. Or just erotic things in general. I really want to start doing some SS fanart and comics, but I'm a huge procrastinator when it comes to art. Which is ironic considering what I'm going to college for. lol Nevertheless, I have a few ideas up my sleeve.
Aside from fanart, what about post ranks? Ya know, after a certain amount of posts, you'll earn a ranking title with a cute pic beside it :3
Quote from: AlexRexx on August 01, 2011, 08:58:49 PM
If one thing's obvious the best thing to do to attract men to anything is porn. Or just erotic things in general. I really want to start doing some SS fanart and comics, but I'm a huge procrastinator when it comes to art. Which is ironic considering what I'm going to college for. lol Nevertheless, I have a few ideas up my sleeve.
Do it do it! We don't have enough fanarts/fanfic :3
What I have in mind currently is this...
1.) Screenshot contest : Capture a screenshot of bullet pattern in Sugar Shooter and then let people vote.
2.) Highscore contest : Randomly pick a stage and difficulty, then we'll see who score the highest on that stage.
Winners'll get some goods send to your house, like, Sugar Shooter mug,t-shirt, mousepad , etc. Or maybe a chance to ask Takezamurai to draw something you want to see. What do you guys think?
Quote from: Reiga on August 01, 2011, 09:01:53 PM
Aside from fanart, what about post ranks? Ya know, after a certain amount of posts, you'll earn a ranking title with a cute pic beside it :3
I personally don't like the idea of post rank, but that could be because I've seen people abuse it and there are communities that can grow without it. I'll have to talk about this with my team again. We are currently based the rank on how you support our group.
Currently, anyone who help us will get Pioneer Support. EDITED : Mogmog and mokamoka think that there should be a clearer requirements for Pioneer Supporter so we'll announce more on this later.
The rank is only for bragging rights and accessing to our secret forum that we will show progresso of our future games and even let you play with some demo/beta.
Quote from: punipen on August 01, 2011, 09:03:23 PM
Quote from: AlexRexx on August 01, 2011, 08:58:49 PM
If one thing's obvious the best thing to do to attract men to anything is porn. Or just erotic things in general. I really want to start doing some SS fanart and comics, but I'm a huge procrastinator when it comes to art. Which is ironic considering what I'm going to college for. lol Nevertheless, I have a few ideas up my sleeve.
Do it do it! We don't have enough fanarts/fanfic :3
What I have in mind currently is this...
1.) Screenshot contest : Capture a screenshot of bullet pattern in Sugar Shooter and then let people vote.
2.) Highscore contest : Randomly pick a stage and difficulty, then we'll see who score the highest on that stage.
Winners'll get some goods send to your house, like, Sugar Shooter mug,t-shirt, mousepad , etc. Or maybe a chance to ask Takezamurai to draw something you want to see. What do you guys think?
Shoot, really? OH, and an art contest would be a good idea too. And good incentive for me to actually finish something on time! Good thinking both of you, I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight!
I'll watch some Extra Credits. Maybe we can find something in there to help us with gaining popularity? :3
Ah, you watch Extra Credits too? I love those ^ ^
As for popularity, I'm not really worried at the moment, though. I think it'll come with time, maybe after we release more games :)
To be honest, I'm not good at this stuffs. And making game is already quite handful, so I'm really happy to see that you guys are helping me with this. Thank you very much!
All I know is that if you want to gain customers you can only gain by the amount of work you put into not just the quality of the product, but also advertisement. So we'll have to do a lot of annoying spams and lots of word-of-mouth.
One way is icons used for IMs and forums.
Another could be having other similar game genres made by other indie game studios advertise Sugar Shooter on their website while we advertise theirs on our site
Quote from: punipen on August 01, 2011, 09:03:23 PM
Do it do it! We don't have enough fanarts/fanfic :3
What I have in mind currently is this...
1.) Screenshot contest : Capture a screenshot of bullet pattern in Sugar Shooter and then let people vote.
2.) Highscore contest : Randomly pick a stage and difficulty, then we'll see who score the highest on that stage.
Winners'll get some goods send to your house, like, Sugar Shooter mug,t-shirt, mousepad , etc. Or maybe a chance to ask Takezamurai to draw something you want to see. What do you guys think?
I'd be up for some sort of contest. I think I'd die to have Takezamurai draw me something. XD That or the fact that I need a new mousepad anyway.
I actually enjoy drawing but have been in quite a slump for a while now. Maybe my love for SS will be enough to get me drawing again lol.
But yeah, contests and smut are always a good way to attract the bara community so it's worth a shot! Although I think I'd be too much of a scaredy cat to use SS icons and stuff on forums that aren't porn related... eheh...
Well I'm still new here. ??? I'm no artist but a sprite editor not professional. I kinda help some Delga Sprites in mugen with Tes.
Ok If it's a high score battle and attract crowd...... ??? I can't believe that I am suggesting this.... I suggest that you make a contest with a prize. There will be 4 winners because there are 4 characters. Best high score on 1 character wins Bitter mode only. The winners will get the Sugar Shooter 2 free if their scores survived the week before the release of Sugar Shooter 2. They will try to post picture on their top score in here. But I am worried if they edited their score if it's done by photoshop. Best if they video the top score as realistic proof.
They will make a lot of post for it. ???
My idea is stupid right? :'(
Quote from: Wanfang on August 02, 2011, 08:34:02 PM
Well I'm still new here. ??? I'm no artist but a sprite editor not professional. I kinda help some Delga Sprites in mugen with Tes.
Ok If it's a high score battle and attract crowd...... ??? I can't believe that I am suggesting this.... I suggest that you make a contest with a prize. There will be 4 winners because there are 4 characters. Best high score on 1 character wins Bitter mode only. The winners will get the Sugar Shooter 2 free if their scores survived the week before the release of Sugar Shooter 2. They will try to post picture on their top score in here. But I am worried if they edited their score if it's done by photoshop. Best if they video the top score as realistic proof.
They will make a lot of post for it. ???
My idea is stupid right? :'(
Not at all! It sounds interesting actually, especially that 'topping their score' part. I'll see what can we developer further from this idea :)
Quote from: punipen on August 02, 2011, 09:58:10 PM
Quote from: Wanfang on August 02, 2011, 08:34:02 PM
Well I'm still new here. ??? I'm no artist but a sprite editor not professional. I kinda help some Delga Sprites in mugen with Tes.
Ok If it's a high score battle and attract crowd...... ??? I can't believe that I am suggesting this.... I suggest that you make a contest with a prize. There will be 4 winners because there are 4 characters. Best high score on 1 character wins Bitter mode only. The winners will get the Sugar Shooter 2 free if their scores survived the week before the release of Sugar Shooter 2. They will try to post picture on their top score in here. But I am worried if they edited their score if it's done by photoshop. Best if they video the top score as realistic proof.
They will make a lot of post for it. ???
My idea is stupid right? :'(
Not at all! It sounds interesting actually, especially that 'topping their score' part. I'll see what can we developer further from this idea :)
Lets hope if it works. But Donation comes first to your SS2.
I think we should use SS2 demo for highscore contest instead of the 1st one though. In the first SS, I focus more on how to tie gameplay and erotic part together and didn't focus much on scoring mechanic, so the scoring mechanic kinda suck (; _ ; )
Maybe we can do with SS2 demo and since it has 4 difficulties so we can have prize for each difficulty. This should be fun~
I thought the scoring mechanic in SS was fine but I'm not experienced in these types of games I guess. Either way a SS2 demo is always welcome. It would gives us all a fresh chance with the new mechanics as well.
Some random or interesting prizes would be cool like a mug, mousepad, art commision etc. Even though I doubt I would win anything since I'm not very good at it lol. Regardless, I've already preordered SS2 and I'm happy to support your studio by buying your games. So I wouldn't really want the full version of SS2 to be a prize. But that's just me. Maybe for others it could be I guess.
Quote from: punipen on August 03, 2011, 04:31:45 AM
I think we should use SS2 demo for highscore contest instead of the 1st one though. In the first SS, I focus more on how to tie gameplay and erotic part together and didn't focus much on scoring mechanic, so the scoring mechanic kinda suck (; _ ; )
Maybe we can do with SS2 demo and since it has 4 difficulties so we can have prize for each difficulty. This should be fun~
Well there goes the curiosity of guessing what's in the game. :-\
Lets hope if they will get excited and challenging other people to get the game.
Quote from: Wanfang on August 03, 2011, 09:06:20 AM
Well there goes the curiosity of guessing what's in the game. :-\
Lets hope if they will get excited and challenging other people to get the game.
If you're talking about game difficulty, it isn't really a secret though since I already posted about it on dudedle's blog :)
Quote from: punipen on August 03, 2011, 08:54:10 PM
Quote from: Wanfang on August 03, 2011, 09:06:20 AM
Well there goes the curiosity of guessing what's in the game. :-\
Lets hope if they will get excited and challenging other people to get the game.
If you're talking about game difficulty, it isn't really a secret though since I already posted about it on dudedle's blog :)
Ok. I was trying to say. They might after your first victe..... I mean boss to battle to armor break.
Hmm, I think a bit of smut is good to hook and sink potential customers lol. But that depends on how much is in the demo. I've never played the SS1 demo since I bought the game straight away. What does the SS1 demo contain? And will the SS2 one have a similar amount of content?
Quote from: Arthur on August 04, 2011, 11:20:58 AM
Hmm, I think a bit of smut is good to hook and sink potential customers lol. But that depends on how much is in the demo. I've never played the SS1 demo since I bought the game straight away. What does the SS1 demo contain? And will the SS2 one have a similar amount of content?
The SS1 demo is Stage 1 and you can unlock all of it's CGs. I don't know anything about what the SS2 demo is actually going to contain, but it'll probably be one segment of the game like the first demo.
Oh cool, that sounds like a good way to do it. At least you're only revealing the first boss that way.
Are we really going to have a high score contest when the demo is out to win a free game? Hope the number of people who posted the picture of their highest score shows how many people loves sugar shooter.
Quote from: Wanfang on September 30, 2011, 06:25:49 AM
Are we really going to have a high score contest when the demo is out to win a free game? Hope the number of people who posted the picture of their highest score shows how many people loves sugar shooter.
Yes, I'm still planning on it. But I need to finish the demo first!! :-[
Quote from: punipen on October 01, 2011, 10:47:09 PM
Quote from: Wanfang on September 30, 2011, 06:25:49 AM
Are we really going to have a high score contest when the demo is out to win a free game? Hope the number of people who posted the picture of their highest score shows how many people loves sugar shooter.
Yes, I'm still planning on it. But I need to finish the demo first!! :-[
It's ok no pressure. :-[ we can delay the contest.