It's lingering around already so just wanna clarify that yes I got roofied last night
I'm safe because I was lucky enough to be around a lot of incredible friends to keep me safe, but the entire process was real scary - so PLEASE stay safe out there
I saw a tweet asking how devs are able to have their game "pretty" enough to share for content/marketing while still in development
Honestly?? The answer is (usually) we have 1 or 2 semi-polished levels/areas and then the rest are still very unfinished LOL
Ok I've had caffeine SO
My biggest recommendation for building a community for your Indie Game on TikTok:
Create ALL content with the idea that no one knows who you are.
bro I should probably write a TikTok strategy for Game Devs already huh
Is there anything people wanna know about TikTok?? I really wanna see more Indies on there
As of like last week, I've been the Community Developer/Manager at Aggro Crab for a whole year!! 🥲
It's been sick as hell getting to work with the team to grow our brand and personality as a studio 🦀
(thread of my thoughts after a whole year of brand and community building)
Yo!! I'm Paige
I'm the community manager for
@AggroCrabGames
🦀 I focus on unhinged marketing tactics for our Studio 😈
+ a Motion Capture/Animation artist, latest work with the VR game
@wanderervr
(I also CM for them too!)
Plus I make stupid tiktoks
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
I like how we all put our actual job titles in our twitter bios. I could just lie. why dont we do that more. i officially made all the good video games out there. that was me. i did that.
It has officially been TWO YEARS since I joined Aggro Crab!!!
I've met SO MANY incredible people ever since from around the world 🥹 Really proud of this team and appreciate them a lot 💛😤
I also found this message I sent to friends when I got the job lol
I had a friend get ghosted from a job they applied for + went to an interview for.
3 MONTHS later they were like "do you want the job" and my friend was like??? it's been 3 months so I found another job??? And the employers were UPSET abt it??
Last night aside, this week has been one of the best in my life.
I got to finally meet many lovely humans, be with my team again, do a TALK?? So amazing!!!
Thank you to everyone who has been so sweet, I'm lucky to have all you incredible people in my life 😭💛 huge love
I haven't posted on my personal tiktak account in a WHILE since I've been busy making cool stuff on the AggroCrab TikTok
So I returned with this lol k thanks byeeee
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA I CAN FINALLY YELL ABOUT THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I got the chance to make this Trailer⁉️⁉️⁉️
Look at how COOL the game looks our team is so TALENTED and BASED wth 🥹💛
gonna go turn to dust now ok bye
🌊 ANOTHER CRAB'S TREASURE IS FLOATING ASHORE APRIL 25th 🌊
The crustacean-themed soulslike coming to Nintendo Switch, Steam, Xbox Game Pass, AND PS5
Your shell has been stolen, would you cross the whole ocean to get it back?
It's finally happening. See you in April 🫡
🦀 ANOTHER CRAB'S TREASURE IS OUT NOW 🦀
The world's crabbiest soulslike is available now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Game Pass and PS5‼️
We did it folks 🥹 Time for crab.
I once again cannot recommend repurpose io enough for reposting tiktoks to Reels and Shorts!! (You can also repost to a bunch of other sites)
It saves me literally hours a week, it removes the tt watermark and our engagement is still pretty good!
How did Another Crab's Treasure hit 250k copies sold already? We talk to
@SmashyNick
in the latest
@GameDiscoverCo
newsletter to find out: (Hint: crab guillotines are involved.)
One thing about marketing a game for so many years is I get shocked seeing OTHER people making content of our game now 🥹
What do you MEAN its not just me anymore??? That's so cool 😭 you wanna make content about it too??? What!!
Thank you for sharing Another Crabs Treasure 🫶
I think what I miss the most is that each social media used to be for specific reasons
Social media now is a cluster fuck of trying to do everything at once and it's exhausting
Creativity is getting buried in fighting to stand out amongst constant algorithm and format changes
From the bottom of our little hearts, thank you for the best game launch we've ever had 🫶 100k in under 4 days!
Aggro Crab no longer slept on?? new era?!?!
I'm gonna be doing an Indie Soapbox talk at GDC with
@SmashyNick
btw!!!
Shoutout to my official GDC bio that is just "idk"
COME ALONG AND LISTEN TO OUR BULLSHIT!!!
If you can find me around today and wanna try a stupid sour candy come say hello
They've been described as "sour to the point where it's no longer fun"
@Eating_all_the_
I cannot believe I have to write this but there's a room where the starfish are in a pile having sex so just dont go in there (+ there's some that just chill on rocks) 💀
"Another Crab's Treasure is too colorful and cutesy to be a soulslike."
We've heard the complaints. And we agree. So we've created an option for the REAL souls players. Introducing...
😈 DARK SOULSLIKE MODE 😈
Game 2 is: ANOTHER CRAB'S TREASURE
- An underwater soulslike -
🦀 Crab vs crab combat
🗑️ Wear trash as shells
🌊 Explore a corrupted ocean
📉 Dismantle crabitalism??
thanks for waiting y'all. we finally announced. i can go cry now 😭
I just wanna end this by thanking the lovely people that are in game dev. I don't regret coming to GDC and I refuse to let the shitstick who did this to define me.
I won't be making more posts past this bc it's a lot to be constantly reminded, but shit needs to get better.
THATS ME‼️
If you wanna have a look into how our entire team contributed to the community marketing success of Another Crab's Treasure, give it a read 🫶
Thank u for letting me scream and yell
@TheVTran
U DA BEST💥‼️
📰 New Community Dev Newsletter 📰
On vacation but honored to have the incredible
@NeoSolarius
from
@AggroCrabGames
guest posting! 🦀❤️
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