Game Progress Update #91

Hello world! And welcome to the ninety first Dev with Dave Game Progress Update!

I honestly never expected that this project would have taken this long to do. As I’m sure I have said a few times already, a few rather large problems have presented themselves along the way.

I’ve got to admit also that I’m not particularly enjoying the marketing side of this project, and I will be glad when it’s over. I am first and foremost a coder, and I am happiest when I am sat at the PC coding away.

Still, we are in the final stretch, so hopefully it will all fall into place soon.

Let me tell you about what I have done this update.

Marketing strategy

As I mentioned in the last update >here<, I am still planning on publishing the marketing strategy, but it is taking me a lot longer to finish than I thought it would.

I have been mostly checking all the elements of the strategy are ready to go, and I have noticed a few things which still need doing.

I have not yet configured the email sequences to start. Although I have written the copy for the emails, I have not yet added any visual assets to them.

I also need to create a lot more assets for the adverts and social media posts. (Which I actually had planned to do this week, but circumstances were against me)

Website changes

I reviewed the Flappy-vaders website. This involved tweaking the colours, and also editing the text copy a little.

I reversed the black/grey colour scheme of the background. As I felt that the previous grey gradient didn’t look quite right. Especially with the black bar across the middle for trhe

The website is a simple landing page made with WordPress, demonstrating my Jack-of-all-trades abilities with computers.

I am using Nelio Software’s testing plugin to run A/B tests on the website once the advertising goes live. This will allow me to determine if changes made are effective or not.

If you want to check out any changes made, the flappy-vaders website is >here<

Asset Creation

I was hoping to take some new photos and videos of the game, and people playing it, using a DSLR camera instead of a phone camera.

But, as is always the way, the camera had been left on and the battery was completely flat by the time I went to use it. I charged it up, but I didn’t have time to do anything much with it before I had to write this blog.

I’ve never shot video with the Canon, so I would like to compare the quality of the footage it takes with the footage my phone records.

And thats’s all for now

That’s all I have managed to do this time round. The down side to this marketing stuff is it’s mostly planning and not the easiest thing to write a blog post about.

I will be back as always next week with another update.

In the mean time, I will try and think of a way to make it a little more exciting 😉 lol