What is the indiepad ?

Hi guys!
Thanks to indiexpo community, now is out a new way to play the indiegames on indiexpo.
It's a "new gamepad".
If you have an android smartphone, go here and download the app (it’s free and always will be).

In this way your smartphones will be the gamepads and your browser will be your own console.

Are you a developer?
You're probably wondering "How to add it at a games of mine?"
It's very very easy. It works only for the games in html5 or webgl (so, made with Game Maker, Construct 2 or 3m Unity 3D and other).
Upload the zip of your game (like each html5 game) and click on "Enable indiepad support".
It's all. Easy and fast.

No script, no code!

All the features of indiexpo 2016... !

What're the features added by indiexpo during the 2016 ?

Here they are:

• Added Goals
• Improved Swedish and Portuguese Languages
• Added Netherlander Language
• Improved SEO of the game page
• New Email to contact the Staff
• Subreddit about indiexpo
• Added how many users follow a game
• New chart about the most followed games.
• Added new Statistics about your game
• Added Smile Game Builder and Twine Engine at the Tool List
• In the game pages, now you can click on the left and make a search.
• Added a red label about the games that you can play online.
• Now you can add hashtags in the description or in the comments
• Added Stencyl Engine at the Tool List
• Added the preview of the youtube-videos when you put a link.
• New Chart about Most Downloaded Games (Last 30 Days)
• New Language: Russian and Polish
• Added AMP Game Pages
• Added Russian language
• Levels, Points and Powers
• Added Swedish language
• E-mail Notifications
• Added Superpower Engine at the Tool List
• Feed Rss about every game
• Badges in the Game Page on Mobile
• Improved Mobile View
• Added Indonesian language
• QR Code of your game
• Added Share Buttons (Facebook, Google + and Twitter)
• Feed Rss about indiexpo
• Added the Site Map Area
• Improved Notification Area
• Added Godot Engine at the Tool List
• Added Polish language
• Use the gif like screenshot of your games
• Events Area
• Added Footer
• Added Info Page
• Improved Most Downloaded Query
• Moved "Set Language" from top bar to footer
• Fixed bug with website in game creation

And other big news are coming !!

6 Tips for using hashtags in a Game Page

A hashtag — written with a # symbol — is used to index keywords or topics on indiexpo. This function was created on Twitter and now we use it also on indiexpo, to allows people to easily follow topics they are interested in.

Using hashtags to categorize Games by keyword:

• People use the hashtag symbol (#) before a relevant keyword or phrase in their Game Description to categorize and help them show more easily in indiexpo search.
• Clicking or tapping on a hashtagged word in any message shows you other Games that include that hashtag.
• Hashtags can be included also in the comments.

Example of a Game with a hashtag:

Tips for using hashtags:

• You cannot add spaces or punctuation in a hashtag, or it will not work properly.
• We recommend using no more than 2 hashtags as best practice, but you may use as many hashtags as you like.
• Type a hashtagged keyword in the search bar to discover new games based on your interests.

6 Tips to Get More Subscribers on your Game

How many time you thinked "Oh! C'mon player click and subscribe!" ... ?

We already talked about how the first players of your new game should be the players of your previous game, inspired by several posts and books of Seth Godin.

If the player click on subscribe it's easier and faster. In fact when you will put a news/update on your indiexpo game page, every subscriber will receive an email about it.
And the 85% of subscibers open their emails on smartphone and check/open them.

So... how to increase your subscibers with news/updates ?

1. Create remarkable content. Your content needs to be amazing if you want people to stay subscribed and forward your games to their friends, family, and colleagues that aren't already on your list;
2. Promote an online contest, like a free giveaway (and don't forget to promote your contest on social!);
3. Add a link to your followers' signatures that leads people to a landing page where they can sign up for your game (you can also use the image that you can see in the Statistics Area)
4. Promote one of your lead-gen offers on Twitter or Facebook. Create a "Sociali Campaign" to promote your free resource to your followers;
5. Run a promotion on a partner game page or social page that targets a new but appropriate audience to collect new followers;
6. Add a QR code to your print marketing collateral (you can find it also in the Statistic Area) that people can scan to opt in to your "database".

Search September 2016 - infographics

indiexpo features - infographics

New Features : hashtags, video preview, new charts and new statistics !

New Features !

- Too easy to "read" the feed rss of a game. Now you just put the link of the game page in your rss reader and it will works automatically !
- New chart about Most Downloaded (Last 30 Days)
- Added how many users follow a game
- New chart about the most followed games.
- Added new Statistics about your game
- In the game pages, now you can click on the left and make a search.
- Added a red label about the games that you can play online.
- Now you can add hashtags in the description or in the comments
- Added the preview of the youtube-videos when you put a link.

Indiexpo Infographic

New Features ! Feed Rss, E-mail notifications, New Games, AMP Pages, New Languages and so on !

New Features !

- Feed Rss for your News !
See the News-Area of a Game page and click on the icon to see the Feed Rss and follow it.
If you're a developer, read here how to link your feed at twitter.

- E-Mail Notifications
Added the email notifications and a Setting Area to customize it.

- Levels, Points and Powers !
Click on the icon on top-right and discover your level and powers !
Read here about how to earn points.

- Added AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) for each game.
- Added new Languages : Russian and Polish.
- Coming soon new games in exclusive. Stay tuned !

Indiexpo Magazine - Adolfish

Indiexpo Cover #6

Once a month we're going to draw a cover with the free indie games of the moment and other references!

Here it's : Adolfish !

The Badges also on Mobile

The badges are very important for a game. They show the goals and the successes achieved.

We're still improving the mobile version of the website... so now the gamers can see them also on their smartphone !

New Mobile Design

Improved Mobile View of the Games !

We improved the view of the games on the mobile version. Now, if you see a game from your Smartphone... you will see the games like the pictures posted up !

Astral Heroes - An Amazing Card Game

Astral Heroes is a Collectible Card Game that's simple to learn, exciting to play, and deep enough to challenge even the greatest strategists.

The developers promise players that "Astral Heroes uses a truly fair Free-to-Play model that never hides the best content behind “pay walls”.

Download & Vote it here !

Over 1,000 Games

The QR Code of your Game !

Do you want a QR Code for your game ? Upload it on indiexpo and now you can see, in its stats your QR Code.

QR is short for Quick Response. You may soon see QR Codes in a magazine advert, on a billboard, a web page or even on someone’s t-shirt.
It can store much more data, including url links. The potential for QR Codes is limitless.

What’s most exciting is how they take what social media is doing well now, bringing people together with technology, and extending it to enhance the experience.

Wanda ! A sci-fi adventure !

Play to Wanda ! A nice sci-fi adventure about two robotic lifeforms finding happiness, companionship and hope in a lonely post-apocalyptic world !

Indiexpo Original Game-Series : Ikku

Ikku is a surrealistic platform game. The Players can explore a fantasy book, travel through its pages and control a mysterious character. Each page will be the scene of riddles and puzzles . The title will be divided into episodes, with the aim to evaluate, step by step, also the liking of this idea. So the first release will be the pilot chapter to discover the impact with the players.

 The purpose of our protagonist will be, apparently, to escape from the book before it reaches the end.

 It will be an exclusive of indiexpo.net

Developed by Ryoku & Freank

Logo indiexpo inspired by Overwatch

New Share Buttons !

New Share Buttons on indiexpo ! They are always about Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus... but now they are also Faster, Easier and Coolest !

.. they are FEC !