Hi fellow devs,
I am launching my game Prison Life RPG on 26 Feb. I just found out about thunderclap last week and thought this is a cool idea to help announce the launch. Unfortunately I only had 6 days to advertise so probably not going to get 100 supporters.
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/22653-prison-life-rpg-game-launch
Here’s a little review of blast campaign so far
Thunderclap
What it does is you ask other people on twitter to support you, the supporters will tweet a message on your selected date. https://www.thunderclap.it/faq
Obstacle
It’s not that easy to get people to support you though as they need to authorize thunderclap to post tweet on their behave, many are not conformable with that. Also, its already hard enough to get people to retweet, the click on link percentage on twitter is even lower.
I have 1 post that reached 846 impression but only has 8 link clicks and 0 supporter.
Effect of the campaign
I have yet to complete the campaign. Since I most probably can reach 100 supporters, I’ll pay $50 dollar to upgrade the plan. But as read from other sources, the effect is more of social awareness than actually earning. I am guessing maybe the same effect as being reviewed by a game site?
I do get alot more twitter followers because I am spamming and adding people like mad. Most of them will retweet or fav the msg, but not support the campaign. I gain more than half of my supporters by offering a free promo code on toucharcade. I have yet to ultilize friends as I want to find out how hard it is to get strangers to support you.
What I wish I have done
Start earlier, 6 days is really not enough.
Try out other similar sites that are dedicated to games only, such as http://epocu.com/discover/ (one of the followers told me abt this site)
Some successful campaigns
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/22706-s-o-s-nora-requesting-aid ongoing
http://epocu.com/campaigns/blackhole/
does anyone has any experience with this type of campaign to share?
Thanks for reading!