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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013 15:52
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As my game is getting closer to Alpha I am thinking of getting feedback from people that play a lot of indie games. I like the game and I have received some positive feedback. But I have no idea what kind of reception it will get. Anyone got a suggestion on how I should do that?

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Jimpo
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013 20:11
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If it's a DBPro game, the Work in Progress board has always given great feedback. If your game isn't made with a TGC product, then I'd also be interested in finding a place similar to this site where you can showcase games and get quality feedback.

http://degorpg.blogspot.com/
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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013 20:48
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It's made in AppGameKit, link to my WIP thread in my sig. But I want to reach a larger audience.

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Jimpo
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013 22:26
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My biggest source of feedback has always been this forum. For one of my bigger projects, I tried to put it up on several different sites. 90-95% of my feedback came from only three sources: this forum, the game's personal blog, and rpgmaker.net (which is only relevant for RPGs).

You could try indiedb.com. I just checked my game's page and it got an okay amount of views and downloads, but very little in terms of comments.

http://degorpg.blogspot.com/
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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013 23:10
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I have thought of indiedb. But I don't know much about the site or how to get noticed there.

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Blobby 101
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IndieDB's quite good, news updates get posted on the home page (which most people tend to check) so they best way to get noticed there is to just have a good game and post decent news and updates about it fairly regularly.

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 21st Apr 2013 13:57
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Thanks Blobby.

Anyone got any experience with the Tig Source forum?

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greenlig
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Yeah, I'd suggest Tig Source. A lot of people go there, and it's a very involved, indie crowd. You'll get good, although very blunt, feedback. They can be a rough bunch sometimes, but are generally a good community. Another place is the IGDA communities on Facebook. We post a few of our games on our local chapters page, and always get good feedback.

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2013 08:51
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Thanks for the tips Greenlig

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