Hello everyone,
I recently had my game request for Innovation Labs approved (I did a bit of adding levels to adding full game things bad, I'm gonna sort that out later). However, I am struggling to get the game noticed to speedrunners. The game itself has been played almost 17,000,000 times but I can't seem to get its speedrun.com page noticed. Anyone know how I can promote the page to get more people attempting for World Records?
I just want to actually have fun speed running, going by the "clock" (the world record time). Any good tips? Also, I do not own the game so I cannot advertise the page on the game itself.
From what I can see, the game has been up on the site for only one day. Unless you're a brand new Nintendo game you aren't going to magically get a speedrunning community in one day. Also, I'd make sure you set up everything properly before trying to get other people into it (I don't know what you did or were trying to do with the full game leaderboard, but you should get that fixed ASAP).
Even those aside though, all you can really do is run the game yourself, and show it around to people that might be interested. Other than that there's not really much you can do. If people aren't interested in running the game, they're not gonna run the game. It's unfortunate, but not every game is going to be a good or popular speed game.
Thank you, ShikenNuggets. I will fix this then perhaps try to advertise it on all my social medias (which isn't much, but I'll get a couple hundred views combined on all of them so I may get a couple). I'll fix it later, I can't be bothered to do much now. XD
^^ That tends to be the way most people do it. However in a TON of cases, after that, all interest immediately leaves because the record ends up being something decent and nobody has motivation to stick around.
Depends on the game completely though.
@Eggwink I agree with your point of interest being lost and it depending on game. Know any way I could keep the interest going?
@PresJPolk - like the idea, but I'm only a kid and couldn't hand out a cash prize. Most I could do is shout out on my YouTube channel but that's meaningless as I'm not even popular.
Why are you so intent on creating a community around this particular game? Trying to do that is like trying to force a meme to catch on.
Just run it yourself, stream it, improve on your speed, and over time, if it truly is a game people would enjoy, it'll get more runners