Quick question for all my fellow smalldevs (1K followers or less) that wanna get big:

What ideas do you have for promotion of your games?

Mine usually just include participating in events, showing off game features, and drawing extra art like this.

#Advice The analytics will tell you "how", "what" and and "where"....but they can't tell you "why".

And the knowledge of "why" may be one of your most powerful tools in growing as a creator.

Deep dive in the long article below.

I feel like this needs to be said more often.

Deep dive on this down below, plenty of it drawn from personal experience.