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[motorsep]

I am excited to report that Steel Storm Episode II beta 1 is out and available for immediate download for those who pre-orders the game.

Episode II beta 1 consist of:
- complete Episode I
- 2 new environments
- 3 new sp / coop missions
- 2 CTF missions (capture the flag)
- new wepaons
- new enemies
- achievements
- Sand Storm without entity limits (real-time mission editor)
- gamepad support
and other small coolnesses

Also I would like to say thank you to all of our fans and supporters. We would not be able to make it into Top 100 for the Indie of the Year 2010 competition without you, gamers.
However it's not over yet, please continue to vote as Steel Storm really wants to be in Top 10

[motorsep]

That's how I test people awareness of the game
Apparently awareness is not there yet. The game's site is at:

http://www.steel-storm.com

[Dragonmaw]

Here's a tip: Don't "test awareness" by leaving out important information such as screencaps, links, or basic gameplay info. Assume nobody has ever heard of your game when making a promotional post.

As for the game itself, looks okay. The art style has an interesting hyper-colorized feel to it. Besides that, the gameplay looks pretty standard.

[zratchet]

Steel Storm just got over 10,000 downloads and featured on the front page of a site from Chinese sources - our issue now is that we are unprepared for Asian market. Does anyone have any tips?

[AuthenticKaizen]

Steel Storm just got over 10,000 downloads and featured on the front page of a site from Chinese sources - our issue now is that we are unprepared for Asian market. Does anyone have any tips?

you could upload the free episode 1 to an external server like filefront, mediafire etc.
http://www.pixelprospector.com/2010/02/free-file-hosting-for-your-games/

for episode 2 you could use an ecommerce payment processor like fastspring, bmt micro etc.
i have listed some of them over here:
http://www.pixelprospector.com/indev/2010/08/the-big-list-of-indie-marketing-and-business-tips/#ecommerce