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📈 The Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🏆

A dense collection of best practices, magic formulas, and Steam knowledge to help #indiedev folks like me.

📺 PLUS a 5:40 video! (see the 2nd post)

Save it for reference & share it with your dev friends!

Good luck with your Steam games 🛠 #gamedev

STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas: THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM Maximize your game's placement in Steam widgets Earn 7,000+ wishlists before launch (some folks say you need 10-50k!!) Translate your Steam page (game later) (start with Japanese, Chinese, Koreon) Get 10+ reviews as soon as possible! (positive or negative, just need 10) WISHLISTS About 10% of wishlists could convert to sales in the first week (this number varies wildly!). ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch! -Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch. STEAM CAPSULE The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most. Clear, Readable, Game name, Genre/mood Steam's background color is #162838 TRAILER Steam users SKIM through trailers!! Start STRONG! Direct to gameplay 60 seconds or less End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it Logos: omit or move to the end STEAM'S MAGIC FORMULAS Beware these numbers are ROUGH! They just give us guesses about the data. One review represents about 20-55 sales. It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold. Guesstimate wishlist counts: Followers x10 = wishlists (e.g. 100 followers = 1,000 wishlists) First year sales can sometimes be roughly: First week sales x 5 = first year sales (e.g. $10k first week = $50k first year) Matt Hackett valadria.com
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