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Friendly advice: Getting a simple site up and running describing your game with a few screenshots or a gameplay vid and providing download links takes no more than 2 hours. Personally I hesitate to download anything from another person's dropbox.

Since you've worked a lot on your project don't let it fail due to poor promotion :)

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Yeah I definitely agree. I actually had a website up once but I had to let it go because I couldn't afford the domain and server costs. Currently living off of government assistance so it's rare to have more than a few dollars extra.

I also tried to contact some publishers for a bigger version but I've never received a reply. It is how it is. I'm hoping the game is good enough to travel through word of mouth :)

You could use itch.io or Github pages.

Oh wow I've never heard of itch.io! I wonder if they allow games in beta.

Have you considered publishing on Steam? Its a good avenue to monetise as well.

It's actually pretty hard to get on Steam without a publisher. Without a publisher, you have to go through the Greenlight process which requires a ton of people voting "Yes I'll buy it if available" for your game.

Surely with the audience here on HN you could get some upvotes across there. Worth a try.

Yes they allow games in beta.

Amazon S3 static sites are not that expensive either, but as far as I know you would be needing a credit or debit card.

I'm happy to give you credits to host it on Google Cloud Platform :-) Shoot me an email campoy@google.com

If hosting costs are a problem why not just make use of the wiki you have on BitBucket?

It's already there but empty: https://bitbucket.org/ZayWolfe/boxbyte-lyte/wiki/Home

It's that time of the year where I'm feeling altruistic, so I just registered boxbytelyte.com for one year. Just let me know where you want it to point, and then I'll transfer the ownership to you in a year's time (or sooner if you like).

Also, have you thought about open-sourcing the game? That would definitely relieve people's qualms about downloading an anonymous binary blob.

Edit: Forgot that there are no direct messages on HN. You can reach me at domainname@boxbytelyte.com

Good on you, this is a great gesture. Hope they take you up on it.

I'm sorry that it took me a while to reply. The response has been so overwhelming that I honestly don't know how to react.

I wish I could show gratitude better through text. Thank you so much for that. I'm fixing up some important bugs at the moment but I'll send you an email as soon as I can.

you're awesome!

Why not use Github Pages?

I run a web hosting business and have servers to spare. Email me and I'll get you one for as long as you need it (see profile for email address).

Congrats on the release. We'd love to help promote and showcase it on www.indiedb.com we are community run and here to help. We also have VRDB.com In the pipeline which would be cool for this. Keep up the fine work!

I second that. YouTube channels are free. Why not post a 3-minutes gameplay demo?

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