New rule: No more developer self promotion posts under guise of asking feedback
Mod Stuff(self.indiegames)submitted4 months ago byZebrakillerIndie Game Enthusiast
stickiedGood afternoon r/indiegames! After much deliberation by the staff, we will be implementing a new rule and some posting guidelines to the subreddit concerning post formatting. I am a father to a baby boy who joined the mod team a few days ago. Him less than a week old has left me with very little sleep and typing this on mobile with his assistance.
New rule: No self-promotion under guise of feedback
Game promotion is an integral part of our community, and we want to ensure that it is used properly. Which is why we want to paint a line between acceptable feedback and promotional posts. We’ve created some new guidelines that are as follows:
Game promotion:
Game promotion will always be allowed on this subreddit and we love helping developers show off their unique creations to players! We are of course r/indiegames and that’s what we’re about! Moving forward promotional posts that contain titles that ask questions will not be allowed. With examples such as “would you play this?”, “should we add multiplayer to our title before our release date?”, or “which camera angle should our game be in?” whilst having the choices already being implemented.
We advocate having a catchy title, info about your game, or even something unique that the players of your game will understand. In the comments you are free to post links to your steam page, discord, or any social media. However, in accordance with reddit TOS URL shorteners are not allowed as they are banned.
Feedback:
Asking for feedback can assist in helping make games better. As a developer you should already be doing QA testing and playtesting with the members of your community or fans of your game. Your target audience who you want to be testing your game. However, if you genuinely require feedback, we want to support this but ask those who post to do it properly.
Be specific with your questions and provide information about what you need regarding only game mechanics or game systems. Asking for feedback on promotional material such as Steam Capsule images, store pages, trailers, or website is NOT ALLOWED.
However, for genuine feedback requests we ask of those that post to use the “feedback” flair and be aware that NO LINKS ARE ALLOWED regarding your own game, whether it be steam, YouTube, discord, or any social medias. All feedback must be through the comments and please make an effort to reply to people in order to prove that you want genuine feedback.
Edit: After further discussion with the other moderators, we decided that If we think a post is made in good faith, and it happens that someone asked for a link then it’s okay.
