Yea that’s really interesting. I’m going to take a look at that “holy grail” list and see what happens. And you’re right, a lot of those sites are only seen by fellow developers, although that is better than nothing.
So I ask myself, what sites do people browse often and share often on facebook? huffpost and the verge come to mind. I’m sure getting a review or mention (with a link) on one of those sites would be a pretty big deal.
What I really want to know, is how people reach millions? 0_o
I mean, honestly, there are some terrible games out there, and I look at them and they have tons of downloads. Is it all just marketing or what?
I put out my first android game while I was in school a couple summers ago. It’s called paper runner. It’s absolutely terrible though! Full of bugs, very amateurish (all in written in java) BUT I made a decent trailer for it, and I think the keywords for the title were very good. It made about 80,000 downloads in the first couple months and then died out, but I never marketed it for one moment.
Why did that happen? I’ve been trying to figure it out ever since haha