If your only indie game marketing strategy is posting on social media, you're playing a losing game from the start. Being popular online can kickstart a game's popularity, but actually selling it is a different matter. Posting a few dozen SNAKE FARM keys into the Cohost void pre-launch helped a ton for day-one success and getting those first essential positive reviews, but the vast majority of sales came from sending the game to streamers, playing steam's algorithm game, etc. Social media is only a useful tool if you recognize its limitations and have other methods of driving success!

ALWAYS remember the difference between flashy marketing and effective marketing. A post going viral feels great; annoying fifty streamers into playing your game doesn't.

i don't have interest myself right now, but i want to boost this because i think it's a really cool idea :3

disclaimer: i am not a doctor and i cannot "prescribe" anything; i'm just an artist who's trying to find stretches to help them deal with their own tendonitis flare-ups

i recommend looking through and trying any that you're interested in, and be careful with yourself as you try them. you know your limits best and you should heed them

"Exercises for Fiber Artists"

"Hand Exercises for Artists"

"Hand, Wrist, Neck, & Shoulder Stretches & Exercises for Artists"

"Gamer stretches: 8 exercises to reduce injury risk"

"Finger, Hand and Wrist Stretches to Prevent Gaming Injuries"

"Tennis Elbow: Exercises"

"Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Exercises"

"9 Repetitive Strain Injury Stretching Exercises"

you don't need to check all of these out, of course. i just wanted to give a few resources in an easy-to-access format to get folks started!

as always, do what you can and don't push yourself too hard. take lots of breaks when drawing, typing, gaming, knitting, crocheting, or anything else that involves a lot of fine motor movement of the hands/wrists

as someone who gets tennis elbow often, i wish i had taken more steps to prevent it early on. it's never too late to start though! my body deserves the care i can give it, and your body deserves your efforts too

let's all take better care of our arms, hands, and wrists together :D

you should pirate shit

you should download files. it's fun, free, and better for the world than streaming services. "but it's hard" this is a guide. i promise you don't need to be a computerhead. i believe in you.

why should i pirate shit?

• streaming services suck. in every industry, they make their money by financially ruining the people who make the art they profit off of. their algorithms, instead of helping you "discover new art", funnel you into what they want you to watch/listen/play. they're janky & inconsistent & are all missing things. fuck em.
• having your collection of files rules. remember how dads would get excited about their cd or dvd collections? they were right. that shit rules. trust me: knowing your collection represents your tastes, and you're in control of what's in it feels sick as hell.
• it's free! spend your 10 bucks a month buying music from a broke artist on bandcamp instead. easy.
• using media library server software, you can stream your own files to your tv/phone/etc, like streaming services.
• pirate streaming sites also exist but tbh they also suck and I'm not trying to sit through "try not to cum" ads to watch a show in questionable quality with no subtitle options.

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