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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:07:32 +0000

There’s no reason you can’t do both. You can still post updates in the forums, but perhaps leave some content on your site too, and encourage people to visit your site to see all the content. For example, share 1 screen-grab in the forum, and have a few others on the site too and let the forum members know they can see more on your site.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:06:12 +0000

If you’re familiar with blogspot, go with that. The only reason I suggested Tumblr was because I assumed you didn’t have a blog as you were posting on the forums, and Tumblr is a good, simple blog that is easy to set up.

If you already have a site, then no, you shouldn’t create a seperate place. I don’t think the site sucks at all. But I do think you should persevere with the site. It may not be getting many visits at the moment, but you should aim to increase traffic. We’ve written a few posts about quick tips you can use here:
http://wootcomms.com/2011/11/4-places-passive-linking-indie-game/
and here:
http://wootcomms.com/2011/10/telling-people-about-indie-game/

We’ve also written a guide on SEO here:
http://wootcomms.com/2011/09/seo-guide-indie-games/

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By: ANtY

ANtY — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:34:43 +0000

I’m not familiar with tumblr, I’ve only used blogspot (and using it atm), is it good? I remember one time that I tried to use it but wasn’t happy with the lack of possibilities to put what u want on the side of website and couldn’t find good theme.

Also: do you think that making a separated place for the game is good when we already have this – http://codedaemons.com/ website, I know it sucks, but noone visits it so we didn’t want to waste time to make it better. Also we’re not so good website admins and don’t know how to make it look better :p

By: Shelby

Shelby — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:26:08 +0000

I primarily use forums when I start a development diary because it’s hard to garner traffic otherwise.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:57:41 +0000

Hey AntY, really good progress you’re making on the game, seems to be coming along very quickly! And it’s great to see people already commenting on the artwork etc. Have you considered giving the game it’s own home, such as on tumblr, and linking out to your site from the forum thread? Forums are great for conversations, but less than ideal for running a diary or blog.

By: ANtY

ANtY — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:28:20 +0000

Hmm, I’ve started a devlog week ago – http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=22878.0 ;d