LAN gaming parties

[S2P]

If you have a game, and its easily playable over a LAN or the Internet. Locate your nearest LAN gaming party, join in on the fun and promote your game, you will then start to see an increase in sales over time. Even if your game is not playable over a network of some sorts, you can still plug your single player game :)

[MrQ]

Is this something you have tried yourself? Somehow I don't think my casual game will go down to well at the local LAN Party. :D

[S2P]

Is this something you have tried yourself? Somehow I don't think my casual game will go down to well at the local LAN Party. :D


LOL - Yes and No. Although I am good at developing games, I am not that good at challenging the most experienced players in some of the FPS type games, plus do not have the time! Although it does not matter what type of game you have developed, there will always be some interest, whether it be for another family member. You will have to look at the social circle as a form of Networking (not in the technical sence of the word) but to promote yourself and what you do, to others. Afterall, what you do is a business, unless of course you only do it as a hobby :)

Why be in issolation as a games developer, and market yourself outside of the internet too?

[GBGames]

I was reviewing a game for Game Tunnel a few years back, and I went to a LAN party. I was having a blast playing that game while waiting for other people to setup their machines.

No one really paid much attention to it other than to find out what it was. They were waiting for either Starcraft, Soldier of Fortune 2, or Quake 3 Arena games to startup.

I don't believe anyone there remembered the name of the game I was playing, let alone became a customer.

Then again, it was a group of hardcore, mainstream gamers. I've been to a different LAN party that was much larger and had a much more diverse group of players, and maybe they might have decided differently.

[S2P]

Yes - you're right. The hardcore gamers that are only there to see the action and nothing else would not be interested. Larger LAN gaming parties tend to have a variety of people from all ages, rather than just friends piling round someones house with their suped up machine, while the wives and girlfriends have a night out, the lads stay in!

I was reviewing a game for Game Tunnel a few years back, and I went to a LAN party. I was having a blast playing that game while waiting for other people to setup their machines.

No one really paid much attention to it other than to find out what it was. They were waiting for either Starcraft, Soldier of Fortune 2, or Quake 3 Arena games to startup.

I don't believe anyone there remembered the name of the game I was playing, let alone became a customer.

Then again, it was a group of hardcore, mainstream gamers. I've been to a different LAN party that was much larger and had a much more diverse group of players, and maybe they might have decided differently.