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A topic by beamsplitter created Jul 25, 2022 Views: 840 Replies: 13

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HELLO ⌿

If you're developing a game, a bold and beautiful game, and are looking for help to ensure it goes GANGBUSTERS, maybe we can help.

beamsplitter is a game label and awareness machine that combines scouting, publishing and promotion. If you want the muscle of a publisher but don't want any of the attached strings, we should chat.

We're going to be spending a lot of time here on itch, trawling through all the great new games, and picking the boldest and best to spotlight on our channels. Each month we'll be sending a round up of the most interesting and notable via our rapidly growing newsletter - which you can sign up to here.

If you'd like to submit your game for consideration, you can do so here.

We’re looking to chat to devs about helping to bring their titles to market with FANFARE. beamsplitter can help with brand strategy, comms and messaging, PR, influencer, store page optimisation, community and a bunch of other publishing-flavoured stuffs.

We’re still spinning up our full suite of services, but right now we’re just keen to see some great games, meet some great devs, and offer some free advice and consultation on the publishing side of things where it's needed.

Chat soon ⌿
beamsplitter.

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firecat2 years ago

this seems sketchy, you don't say what you will do and you only seem to only say things that are possible in Steam store and not in other stores like Epic, consoles, mobile, HTML and here at itch.io website. You then claim you have experience older than Atari which is a very very unlikely possibility , you would have to be 80 years or older by this time. The sign-up form is claiming to only get games in newsletter, 30k in followers but less than 5 replies on twitter does not build trust.

It does not seem you have the followers or influence to get games into popular youtubers or do anything to the public to make people see a game. Your "newsletter" is just a mailchimp 3rd party program, This is scam written all over, the only thing i know you'll ever do is just post a tweet for only a few real people to see and spam people on your email list.

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beamsplitter2 years ago(+1)

Ha, yowch.

In truth this is just a 'feelers out' type of post for now. But if it's coming across scammy then there's work to be done! (not quite sure what the scam would be given we don't want money. Or information. Or anything. Well I guess we want content to fuel our growing channels in the shape of interesting games. But that feels like a fair trade?)

Lots in the beamsplitter pipeline as the platform spins up, but right now we just want to put ourselves in front of some cool games and chat about any publishing worries or obstacles folks have so we can help curate solutions for the future.

(What's your beef with Mailchimp? Genuine question. If you have a better CRM solution I'd be keen to hear - I've worked in marketing for over a decade and Mailchimp is one of the better CRM solutions. Keen for your take on it. All CRM solutions are 'third party' unless you're developing your own!? Which would be bonkers. But fair play)

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Midnight Spire Games2 years ago(+1)

not quite sure what the scam would be given we don't want money. Or information. Or anything.

Not strictly true. You're collecting email addresses on a weird site, which I'm not comfortable providing. Your websites (why do you have two?) also list an e-book, marketing packages, and publishing services for sale.

Incidentally, I don't trust giveaways in general, I definitely don't trust "no strings attached", and it bothers me that Konami probably has a copyright claim against one of the games you've retweeted recently. Also, your Twitter account is ten years old with 30k followers, but I can't seem to find any information about you online. Who are you? What's your history?

I'm not saying you're up to something, I'm just saying there's no verdict 'til we know you. Since your expertise is in marketing and brand awareness, you definitely won't be surprised by skepticism.

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Midnight Spire Games2 years ago(+1)

More peculiar things that I noticed:

1) I made a mistake: the e-book is actually sold on the Superstring web site, not the Beamsplitter web site. However, that's... not better. Superstring is the publisher of your current game of the month, Acolyte, which just came out at the end of June. Promoting two products by the same company at the same time, especially when one is brand-new and the other appears to be a competing product, makes me think that you have some undisclosed connection to that company. Even moreso because:

2) The Twitter link at the bottom of your site links not to the Beamsplitter account, but to the account for some web design firm called Squarespace. What's your connection to that company? It seems that Superstring's web site is also running on Squarespace infrastructure, since pressing Escape on their website prompts me to log in to Squarespace.

3) Speaking of Twitter, why are you following 18,000 accounts? I don't do social media, but I still find that very weird.

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Evolutionary Games2 years ago(+1)

Squarespace is an independent website hosting company. It means that they used a template from Squarespace and did not correctly update all the fields. (In other words, it's an honest mistake.)

The twitter one I can answer too - if you follow someone there's a good chance they will follow you back, so the more people you follow, the more followers you get. It's one of the ways to get followers quickly.

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Midnight Spire Games2 years ago

Squarespace is an independent website hosting company. It means that they used a template from Squarespace and did not correctly update all the fields. (In other words, it's an honest mistake.)

Sloppy, but fair enough. I had hoped it was only something like that.

The twitter one I can answer too - if you follow someone there's a good chance they will follow you back, so the more people you follow, the more followers you get. It's one of the ways to get followers quickly.

I see. I find that distasteful, but I guess it's expected behavior for a marketing firm.

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firecat2 years ago

Mailchimp is a known risk for email newsletters, it has been on the news over the years for failure to protect customer emails. Recently got hacked again by someone targeting crypto email listers. So it's very suspicious that you who is older than Atari did not know such thing and don't even know how to set up basic email list like other normal companies.

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Indie Horror Games No Commentary2 years ago

This is straight up SCAM written all over! I have checked this Beamsplitter and it seems your own Twitter, which has 30k followers does not get any likes on your tweets! Your pinned tweet has less than I get normally when I tweet about a game! And I have less than 30 follwoers! Yeah! You ain't fooling no one by collecting emails this way! I have seen enough scams and this one is just straight clear scam!

I had my shares of hacks and scams, you guys are the worst kind of ppl and have no mercy, no understanding! Imagine your own family and kids gets scammed when they get older! Imagine your grandchildren gets scammed just like you are doing now! But... agian, you are the type of ppl who have no compassion and no mercy!

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Eldwood2 years ago(+1)

This does not strike me as a scam. It strikes me as an amateurish start-up, but this is itch, where almost everybody is either an amateurish start-up or a straight-up hobbyist. They're probably hoping to grow their subscribers by promoting games for free until their subscriber base is big enough that they can sell their services.

I wouldn't give them an email address that I don't want to be spammed, but I wouldn't give one to Amazon or eBay or Paypal either. Email addresses are free. There is no reason for using the same one twice.

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firecat2 years ago

That's where you fall for the scam, they can sell your email, spam your email from scammers, track you by email with facebook or twitter, attachment virus and using your email as another scam until your email is reported for scam.

Do not trust these scammers.

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Eldwood2 years ago

Like I already said, my email address has no value. I create a new email address for each service I sign up for, then I delete that email address when I am no longer interested in that service or I start getting spam. My email address cannot be linked to any other account.

It baffles me that other people are not doing the same.

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technicat2 years ago (1 edit)

I usually do this, too. A side benefit is that when I get spam, I know where they got (bought, harvested, hacked) the email address.

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technicat2 years ago

I agree, it looks harmless, at least no worse than any of the so-called publishers I've made the mistake of working with, and maybe even helpful, but it's weird there's no identifying or company info. It could be an AI trained to tweet and make extravagant promises (again, no worse than any other publisher).

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