Commission: SirTapTap avatar by @mi3li!

Along with the Nath commission, I also got a little TapTap buddy from @mi3li! Isn’t he adorable? Is it weird to say that about my own avatar? Oh well, it is. I’ve started using it on YouTube and Discord lately.

Here’s a transparent background version too:

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The Minimalist Game PR Email: A GIF, A Link, & A Steam Key

Not everyone can hire a PR person, especially indie game devs often working as a one-person-team. That said, I often get a lot of…rough emails from devs.  As an example, here’s a barely edited sample directly from my inbox:

A game PR email containing nothing more than "new game, do you want keys"

The obvious issue here is…I know nothing about the game. Sure, I could click that link, but it’s just as easy to click the ‘archive message’ button, and with 50+ emails in my box, that’s probably my first reflex nine times out of ten if you don’t make an impression. I wish I could say this is rare, but I get a lot of these. A few very basic PR services even send out emails that are basically this with better formatting.

And I get it! Almost certainly you’re a gamedev first and a PR person second. Or third. Fifth. Sixteenth. That’s fine! But even solo or hobby game devs still need to do a little homemade PR too.  Let’s take a look at creating a Minimum Viable Product for game PR that gets people to actually look at your game even if we can’t pay someone to just do it for us.

Game PR as a Minimum Viable Product

You’ve probably heard of Minimum Viable Products before; it’s all about making the simplest, easiest, cheapest thing that (you think) will actually solve your/your client’s problem. And hey, there’s something to be said about minimalism in general for PR—I’m no big YouTuber, and even I get 10+ emails a day most days. I’m sure major review sites are getting many, many times more than that. You’re going to need to assume anyone looking at your email is getting dozens of similar pitches.

Here’s what helps me the most, as a gaming YouTuber with far, far more emails than time:

  • A GIF of the game
  • A link to the Steam/itch.io/etc page
  • A review key to actually play the game right now

That’s it. You can and probably should give me a little text snippet describing the game, but really, a good GIF can really sell that on it’s own. Show me just enough of the game to give me a sense of the gameplay, the setting, the mood. Something your target audience will see and think “yep, I want that!”.

Yes, GIFs are huge, but people know what GIF means. You should probably use a webM, an MP4, you can even use a YouTube video instead if you like; when I say “GIF” I mean something short, small, and punchy. Even if it’s a video, think Vine, not RedLetterMedia.

Editor’s Note: RIP Vine.

GIFs are Magic

What’s so great about a GIF? Let’s use an a (fake) copy example, pretending I’m pitching Assault Android Cactus.

Assault Android Cactus is a score-based Twin-Stick Shooter available on Steam featuring full controller support, multiple game modes, and 9 selectable characters with unique weapons.

If you got that in your email, would you be interested? Maybe you really like Twin Stick shooters, but there’s a lot of those. Let’s try a GIF that takes as about as long to watch as that took to read, this one from Alex Coccia’s review:

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Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium March 2020 Retro Event All Hidden Fish Guide

This is a guide for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the 2020 March  Retro Event information. Please consider supporting my Patreon (and get perks!) if my guides help you. See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information and for links to other events.

Updates

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2020-03-09: Event is out! All hidden fish unlocks are already found. Video Guide.

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Commission: Bunny Suit Nath Chibi by Kinoglossia

Wasn’t expecting this one so fast! I commissioned Chen aka @kinoglossia a bunbun chibi Nath from 100% Orange Juice! We’ve been playing 100% OJ a lot in our Discord Server and I ended up liking Nath a ton (I blame Coffgirl and Mythology). I ordered up two versions, one with more realistic prostheses (Nath lost her arms) and one with the Extension weapons Nath starts with ingame, and they came out great! Continue reading “Commission: Bunny Suit Nath Chibi by Kinoglossia”

Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium Valentine’s Day 2020 Event All Hidden Fish Guide

This is a guide for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the 2020 Valentine’s Day  Event information. Please consider supporting my Patreon (and get perks!) if my guides help you.

See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information and for links to other events. The event is live! Big thanks to Farmerlesbian as always for helping compile info on the subreddit!

Updates

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You can support me and my guides monthly on Patreon (and score some rewards like cute cat pictures)! The more I earn the more time I can spend on improving guides like this. My PayPal is a thing too if you can’t do monthly subscriptions.

2020-02-15: Video Guide is live

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Fan Art: MLG Kermit the Squire By IzzyItADream

Hooooooooo boy. Okay. So. I was streaming AI Dungeon 2 and roleplaying, as one does, as an MLG Gamer Kermit the Frog in a medieval Fantasy setting, raiding Gamestops and throwing Gamer Keyboards and drinking Gamer Girl Bathwater. Then IzzyItADream pops into Discord with this amazing interpretation of our amphibian capital G Gamer hero. Enjoy. Yes, those are Ahegao pants. No, you shouldn’t Google that if you don’t know what it means.
Fan art of Kermit the Frog with a sword and chainmail helmet, wearing an MLG Gamer T-shirt, Ahegao sweatpants, and a Gamestop(TM) shield
Long Live MLG Kermit
See more fan art in the Fan Art Gallery and don’t be shy to send your submissions to my email ([email protected]) or share them in our Discord! I try to post all fan art I receive here as long as the artist is okay with it.

Let’s Play AI Dungeon – YouTube Playthrough by Sir TapTap

Here’s Sir TapTap playing AI Dungeon on YouTube, previously known as AI Dungeon 2, this incredible program is an Artificial Intelligence story writer that has absolutely hilarious results. Even when it’s bad it’s great.

If you enjoy Sir TapTap’s videos make sure to subscribe and comment on the videos! See all my complete playthroughs here.

Tap Tap Fish AbyssRium Pole – Hidden Fish & Gameplay Guide

Tap Tap Fish AbyssRium Pole is the newest AbyssRium series game, so here’s a guide to find Hidden Creature Unlocks and other gameplay information! Come chat about the game in our Discord and check out my Ko-Fi!

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2021-05-10: There’s nothing of interest left in this game and this guide won’t be updated any longer.

2020-09-10: AbyssRium World is out, guide out.

2020-08-27: Summer Festival Event guide is out.

2020-07-25: Greek Myth event out. Fish/Creatures are now called “Friends” (not food). 3 new Penguins, Explorer Penguin, Detective Penguin, Bear Hat Penguin (hidden).

2020-06-29: The Tropical…? Theme Event is live! Guide up.

2020-05-27: The Ancient Egypt event is live, guide up.

2020-04-26: Temperate Forest Event is live! Guide is up with most info.

2020-03-12: They randomly changed a ton of unlocks again.

2020-02-25: New video guide for the new fish.

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Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium Pole releases on mobile platforms

Editor’s Note: Abyssrium Pole is no longer supported or updated unfortunately.

I’ll have a guide on this site soon just like the highly popular AbyssRium guide, but first a simple announcement: Flero Games has released Tap Tap Fish AbyssRium Pole on iOS and Android!

Stay tuned for a guide, though the gameplay seems to be highly similar to the original AbyssRium where I have  a guide right here. The AbyssRium Subreddit is already talking about the game too.

You can see my first impressions of the game here in an extensive live first play session with commentary:

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Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium New Years 2020 Event Guide

This is a guide for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the 2020 New Year’s Mini-Event information. See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information and for links to other events. The event is live! All unlocks have been found. Big thanks to Farmerlesbian as always for helping compile info on the subreddit!

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You can support me and my guides monthly on Patreon (and score some rewards like cute cat pictures)! The more I earn the more time I can spend on improving guides like this. My PayPal is a thing too if you can’t do monthly subscriptions.

New Year’s 2020 Event Fish & Expand Items

Like last year’s New Year’s event, it’s just a mini-event with rewards distributed once per day. All you have to do is long in to get the reward, and it seems likely even if you miss a day the event will go a bit longer than the 12 days it will take to get all rewards. Some items are fish, some are Expand items, I’ve noted which each is.

More Gachapon fish were also added. As always, the event is in a slow rollout so it might take a few days to appear. AbyssRium Pole is supposed to launch soon, look for a guide here soon.

FishUnlock
Lucky Frogfish
Fish
1 Day Login
Maneki Dumbo Coral
Expand Item
2 Day Login
New Year Lantern Jellyfish
Fish
3 Day Login
New Year Lion Dog Sculpture
Expand Item
4 Day Login
New Year Daruma Dumbo
Fish
5 Day Login
Golden Pig Statue
Fish
6 Day Login
New Year 2020 Fireworks
Expand Item
7 Day Login
New Year Nautilus
Fish
8 Day Login
New Year Temple Bell
Expand Item
9 Day Login
Cheongsa Lantern Jellyfish
Fish
10 Day Login
New Year Mouse Coral
Expand Item
11 Day Login
New Year Kite Ray
Fish
12 Day Login

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