[ SECRET POST #7009 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7009 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1001.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1. That's awesome, OP. I agree with others -- you should be proud of what you've done!

2. Not to be all "diagnosing the problem" if you're not interested in that, but... Is your fandom small...? Because I got the impression from the secret that you're kind of toiling privately on your own project without knowing if there would be an audience for it at the end, rather than you're someone posting in a big and active fandom where you KNOW there will be an audience for it and it's just a matter of getting people to look at your stuff and weigh in with their feedback, but I couldn't tell. But if you are posting in a small fandom, unfortunately, making something big and impressive and high-effort won't draw in any more fans than, like, a short drabble would, because there just aren't any fans to draw in. I've experienced this many times -- it's nothing wrong with you or your work. It's just the fandom not having enough fans to generate any kind of sustained attention on your work no matter how interesting or good it is.

3. If you are in a big fandom, I think another thing I've learned that is helpful is that big works (like a "retail length fan game"!) take a while for people to find time to sit down with and time for them to finish/consume. With a game, too, there's going to be people who don't have the computer/software, or the skills, needed to play it. I doubt there's anyone who can play through a game like that in less than a week. Assuming the fandom isn't dead, you'll probably get some feedback on it, but the size of the work is going to make that feedback REALLY long tail. If you want to get lots of feedback very quickly, dropping an epic game on people is probably the worst way of going about that. But I think you will get the feedback you want eventually, and I hope you deservedly bask in it when you do!

[(Anonymous)]

OP of secret: it's a big game fandom, I won't specify which, but fan games are pretty common, just not the genre that I made. After almost two weeks still nothing sadly but as you said it's probably the length. I released one fan game already but it was only about an hour long and more of a VN and it took a lot less time to get feedback.

I also haven't done very much promotion which was also kind of intentional. It's still at sub 100 views with around 12 downloads. I only posted it on Ao3 and backdated it by 1 day because I wanted to avoid it being seen by antis while remaining at the top of the slower ship tag. I don't use Tumblr anymore (it's full of antis anyway though) and am not in any discords. While the game isn't nsfw sadly it's still got stuff on the itch io blacklist so that's not an option. I am going to translate it and hope it does better elsewhere though.