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[SaintXi]

Excuse my Spanish but this site (FMGames.es) seems to think I am controversial in being so secretive about my game so close to launch.
I can only hope a fluent Spanish speaker can put me right!

Is it wrong to focus on Indie sites and ignore the mainstream mags and websites? Have people had experience of getting Previews/Reviews alongside mainstream games?

I know it is a common problem for Indie games to get coverage in mainstream gaming media so I've not put too much effort in that direction - but by their reaction it seems I've been doing much less PR than I should have been.

[Eclipse]

Is it wrong to focus on Indie sites and ignore the mainstream mags and websites?

Yes.
mainstream press is not an enemy, also because indie only press is almost non existant!
If your game is not free you want to sell it and make money, and if you want that you need to advertise your game. So you need every possible way to adversite it, expecially site and mags that talks about gaming, even mainstream, because you know, those site are visited by gamers!

There's nothing wrong with that, it will not make you less indie send some material around or maybe even make it as exclusive to a big site before the others, it looks very cool!



PS oh I hate that damn techno music on the trailer, tell me it will not be featured on the game

[agj]

Here's a translation of that blurb:

For no apparent reason, there are some games that don't resonate in the media, while it has been recently proved that you don't need a big brand to make a game that makes the news. Maybe it's controversy what favors hype, but it's a shame that you have to get to almost embarrassing extremes to make yourself be heard in the scene. Something like that (going unnoticed) is what is happening to Light of Altair, an economics strategy game for PC, due this year.

[SaintXi]

Thanks adj, that was a lot clearer than I had been working with

I would suspect that 99% of indie games don't 'resonate in the media' so I'm not too glum, especially for a first game

There are 5-6 indie titles that I keep seeing everywhere, but the vast majority of indies are invisible save for the odd coverdisc appearance.

[SaintXi]

We've just had our first mainstream media plug - we got onto the coverdisc of PC GAMER :D