Heres the trailer for my game:
I haven't been seeing many trailers about, Post yours if you have one.
want people to get interested in your game, then dont be dump like me.
but seriosly though, i think people might just ignore it like i did (sorry), but i think people want a faster way of getting info about your game, and that is exactly what i didn't have, you see......after i finished my game i was too lazy to put pictures about the game, i just pulled a stuped photo of google and put the name of the game on it and thats it, didnt put much effort in it as well as i didn't in puttin gany form of pictures about the game, after 4 days of the rating period i had 7 ratings, then i put a picture of the game (was the best that i could get) on the submission page of my game, then the next day i got about 6 ratings, jut because of that, so dont be dump like me
I don't think that it really helped get more players who are part of the game jam but there was a spike of almost double people viewing the page after I put up the trailer, it helped with downloads as well from what I can see on the analytics page.
I make trailers for all the games that I make so it's just something that I do, it only took me a few hours (not sure how many maybe 1.5-3) to edit so I think it was worth it.
Thanks for the info! We didn't make a trailer but did make animated gifs. Seems like making a trailer may attract more attention from the broader itch audience. Plus, I see jams as practicing for the real thing - making a commercial game someday. And trailers are definitely required to do that. So, I'll definitely be taking the time in future jams to throw together trailer. True, if you're doing a commerical game, hiring a professional to do the trailer makes sense, but I want to understand the process so I know what to ask, etc. Plus, you never know, maybe I'll turn out to be good enough at it myself.
