Matt Hackett 📙
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Author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: Working on Pixel Washer: @andraconda 's husband (he/him)
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Game devs:
Are these spot on? Or way off?
What else should go in here?
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📈 Steam Dev Cheat Sheet (first version)
Got any corrections or ideas on stuff to add?
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Game devs: ROUND TWO!
Are these more or less accurate?
Anything missing?
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🔥🎮🔥🎮🔥🎮🔥🎮🔥🎮🔥
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Game devs, this is for you:
🚫 Show it to those who try to blow up your scope.
🪞 Use it to remind yourself to keep it simple!
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🏪 Game Marketing Cheat Sheet (rough draft v1)
Any corrections? What else should be in here?
#WIPwednesday
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💰 Steam Discount Cheat Sheet
It's all in the Steam docs, but I made this for your convenience. Share with your fellow game devs! ❤️
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Game Development Map (rough sketch)
What do you think?
Do you mentally map any places while making games?
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Steam devs, RIGHT NOW --
➡️ Go to your Steam page. Click on DEVELOPER or PUBLISHER.
If you see a search results page, follow this tutorial to create your professional-looking homepage: 🧵/6
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Steam developers --
🖼 Here's an infographic that shows (most of) the capsules/banners that Steam requires. (Includes an example capsule for Witchmore, my game.)
Do you have any tips for making images that fit within the very different image sizes?
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game dev is 10% making a fun prototype and 90% cleaning up the damn mess you made
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📈 Steam Dev Cheat Sheet (v2)
More magic formulas, fixes, tweaks & improvements!
What do you wanna see in the next version?
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It's
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; take this game marketing cheat sheet with you. Good luck out there fellow devs! 🛠🎮
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🏁💀🏁
The prototype phase is my favorite part of gamedev. Getting something to work the way you want it always feels so magical. Finishing a game however...
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I spent every weekend for two years writing in Google Docs, drawing in Clip Studio Paint, and other tools... and by combining all of them, published a
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book written by hand and also illustrated by hand!
Here's how! 🧵
I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools… and by combining all of them, published a children’s book co-written and illustrated by AI!
Here’s how! 🧵
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🖼️ Steam Asset Names & Dimensions
Gonna need these for your Steam game!
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Happy
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Steam devs, have a
💰 Steam Discount Cheat Sheet 📈
Share it with your
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friends!
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📅 Steam Game Release Timeline
How do you prep for a Steam game launch?
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Let's have some fun --
⏯️ Press play/pause on these. What'd you get?
Would you play that game? Or maybe make it??
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5 viral hooks for your game:
1. Animal fantasy
2. Mashup
3. Specificity
4. Automation
5. Genre twist
Includes 2 examples of each + their estimated Steam revenues:
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Thanks for 7,000 followers! 📈
As a treat here's a handful of my marketing comics:
💰 Steam Discount Cheat Sheet
🗓 Steam Game Release Timeline
🖼 Steam Asset Names & Dimensions
(also a little comic about me if you're new here)
Happy
#MarketingMonday
good luck out there devs 🛠
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Your Steam trailer should begin immediately with gameplay -- omit the intro logos etc.
You can include them at the end if you want!
(sry the cheat sheet makes this unclear ✅⛔️)
📈 Steam Dev Cheat Sheet (first version)
Got any corrections or ideas on stuff to add?
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Read more about How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself and pre-order right here:
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Found this rough doodle on my hard drive --
How many Steam games do you think you'd need to release to pay your bills? 3? 5? 500? 😅
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Which way do you go --
If you had to lean towards the game idea you're passionate about, or the more marketable one?
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💥 NEW
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BOOK RELEASE 💥
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself is a guide for anyone who wants to make their own video game.
It's OUT NOW for paperback, Kindle, and digital platforms. I wrote and illustrated it myself over the last 2 years.
Spread the 📙❤️
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3/ Iconic imagery
The world is vast and noisy; how will anyone remember your game? Find some eye-popping visuals from your game (or key art) that you can show when you talk about your game.
Try to get noticed! Go for big, bold, and high contrast.
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How do you design your games? On paper? In a digital document?
Or do you go straight to code (or your editor)?
If you have a template you use I'd love to see it 🔽
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So I absolutely LOVE the game I'm working on, but --
I'm not sure how marketable it is 😅 Do you have this problem? Where do you put your game on this chart?
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