I don't like to make too many negative posts, but here's a list of the funniest things I've heard recommended in the Game Maker Community forum, Distributing Games subforum.
- Burn a handful of copies of CDs with your demo on them, and leave them in places where somebody might discover them.
- Sell games to trick-or-treating kids who come to your door on Halloween.
- Sell games outside by standing outside of grocery stores and trying to sell them to whoever passes by. "Games, fresh games!"
- Give copies of your games to game stores, and ask them to sell them for you.
- Put 100 Game Maker games on one CD which are normally available for free and sell that.
- Come up with a good idea for a game, make an example of it in Game Maker, and sell it to a big company for millions, and let them distribute it for you.
None of those will work very well.
Halloween
I like the idea of the "Sell games to trick-or-treating kids who come to your door on Halloween.".
I noticed in Berkeley that
I noticed in Berkeley that there are a ton of misc. vendors selling beads and stuff in booths on the side walk. They are mostly on the famous Telegraph Ave and one of them is actually located right outside of a popular GameStop. I wonder if instead of selling beads, they'd mind selling $30, $20, and $10 indie games to customers who are leaving GameStop :)
-Jeff
Someone else saw the trick or treaters post lol
I wrote the same type article for a blog a few weeks back. Missed the grocery store one though, nice catch!
http://selling-games.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-not-to-sell-games.html
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