I have made a lot of games and have about four years experience in Unity.
I think my latest game is finally worthy of publishing.
Ideally i would want to publish on steam, but it’s quite complicated and expensive.
What is a good platform for first time publishers?
I do not want to pay more than $10 and i do not mind my game being available for free.
And no, i do not have my own business (as many platforms require you to have).
I am using assets from the asset store and will be mentioning them in the credits.
I would love steam too! My fingers are itching to implement Steamworks and make some cool and funny achievements.
However it costs $100 to publish a game even if it will be available for free
I’ve even heard roumors about them shutting steamworks down.
First, don’t wait until you feel your work is “ready” to publish it. Put everything you make out there. You never know what people may like, and you won’t get real useful data until you do. Also, seems like every beginner artist has huge lack of confidence in their work, and this stymies them in a lot of big ways. Forget all that crap, and publish all your crap. Just keep charging forward. Every time you slow down or retreat because of insert emotional reason here, somebody else is getting ahead of you.
Second, if $100 is too much, I’d launch your games everywhere possible that is free and keep doing so until you are making enough money to be confident that you next release will make ROI if you go with steam.
Think about it like this : take every knockout swing as aggressively as you can, but don’t lower your guard until victory is certain.
