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Help us in creating a fair and equal game marketplace!

A topic by K Storm Studio created 3 days ago Views: 244 Replies: 22
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Dear devs,

after months of hard development, ideas, design, failures and so on, and despite we are still working hard on our idea of a new game marketplace more fair and equal, we can finally have several features done, and we can start to see some light at the horizon.

But we now really need your help again, and please let me personally tell you thank you so much for all the previous help that many of you gave us before.

We listed several key points we were working on, devs side in our platform. Our goal is to have a marketplace able to let gamers explore and discover new games they want, both indie and commercial, instead of brutally forcing them to buy what is currently trendy. But please tell us some additional features that you want to have in a game marketplace.

Visibility & Community

  • Effective Discovery and Curation: no tricky algorithms will define how your customers will find your games. In addition, we are constantly working to clean the store design, add powerful search functionality, and curated sections for indie titles or specific genres.

  • From Indie to Major: feature indie titles equally alongside bigger titles, with fair discoverability (no burying small developers).

  • Data Analytics and Market Insights: access to data on player behavior, market trends, and sales performance enables developers to make informed decisions about their game and future projects.

  • Community Engagement Tools: features like forums, review systems, and communication channels allow developers to interact directly with their players, build a community, and gather feedback.

  • Marketing Support: we will run promotions and sales events, we are also running rotational sections based on game genres.

Business & Financial Key Points

  • 0 Cost Publishing: we don't charge you to publish products, we reward you with more points.

  • Fair Revenue Split: from 85% up to 93% split.

  • Transparent and Secure Financial Handling: we handle tax compliance (like VAT), and we also offer secure payment processing via Stripe.

  • Pricing Control: you can manage prices and run sales and promotions yourself, aside from our promotion bundles.

  • Monetization Support: built-in support for various monetization strategies, including in-game purchases, DLC, and microtransactions, helps maximize potential revenue streams

Development & Operational Tools

  • Ease of Use & Integration: creating a store page for your games/products is a very easy and fun process in K Storm Studio Marketplace. Also, integrating and protecting your game with KSS is easy, and we provide a small piece of code and example to use for many of the commercial game engines.

  • Copy Protection: connecting your game to the KSS System and the KISS DreamGate, your game can only be played by those who have purchased.

  • Efficient Patching System: gamers can easily update their games directly from the KSS DreamGate app. Vendors can manage their files from their store page product editor.

  • Customizable Product Page: easily customize your game store page with our creation tools.

  • Customizable Vendor Store Page: after registration, you will get your own store that you can customize with some best features to better engage with your customers and remain in touch with them.


Please get in touch, tell us your wishlist and feedback.

Thank you!

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(moved to the right category)

Thanks, apoligize for my mistake

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Nice project, will you accept NSFW?

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Well, some games contain nudity, violence, or offensive language. We will but limited to the same content in the industry standard. 

May I ask, which type of games would you like to distribute?

For example, I know my first game wouldn't be accepted on Steam, and I have my doubts about the second one. Maybe they would accept it since the kinks can be disabled, but I couldn't say for sure... it is taboo content.

We want to create a dedicated session, with a message for the audience. Just like a kind of PEGI system. The most important thing for us is quality. A curated project is always winning. What game genre your games belong to?

RPG

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Is there any other way to keep in touch with you?

Any Discord or something?

I think that if there is a possibility, I would obviously accept it, but with part two, which is for a wider audience, it is always content made responsibly and with added value (mechanics, combat system, etc.).

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Yes of course, I don't use Discord so much, even my colleague,for now we can use Facebook or Tiktok or Youtube, then soon even our platform. Please tell me what do you prefer so I can send you link to our profile

perfect, I can see you on youtube.

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Is Stripe the only payment processor? That company’s TOS is highly restrictive of game content and creators.

As an owner of an e-commerce store, the agreement with Stripe is only related to secure transactions. Our system is based on WordPress, plus required plugins, so we support many different payment methods, but we decided to start with Stripe (despite fees) , then soon also activate other methods.

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You should consider having some sort of networking system for multi-player games. Most people use the Steam API to bypass port-forwarding. This sort of thing is very important to have. Also, I would advise not having a 0 dollar publishing fee. This would increase the quality of games on the marketplace. Otherwise, you have to pay a lot more for storage of games that are low quality and that no one really wants to play. This would also be more appealing to bigger budget games because they wouldn't have to deal with marketing in a store flooded with bad games.

Thanks to get in touch with us and for all the advice. :)

For multiplayer, yes but not at the moment. Because we are still developing several functionalities for both website and the desktop app. 

About 0 dollar publishing fee. Right, but as a new and small webplatform we can't be so restrictive, at least at the beginning. So we don't want to charge developers to publish with us, at the beginning at least.

About game quality, well, this is crucial for us. First we won't publish everything. In addition, for everyone who wants to publish through our marketplace, devs need to implement  a small simple piece of code we provide for language and major game engines. This is for copy protection, and it is during this process that we will test games and eventually decide to unpublish some of those.

Our criteria is flexible, but of course we don't want to have trash games, otherwise the platform won't be attractive for gamers.

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I don't want to add platform DRM to my games.

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Good luck with multiplayer then.

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They didn't say it was only for multiplayer.  They said it was for everyone.

Correct, and then later on we will develop additional infrastructure for multiplayers.

But thank you very much indeed

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Hey! This sounds wonderful but you can't be fair for everyone. If you mean that new games would be put up on the front page, that is already happening on itch io. If you have thousands of games on your website and hundreds are posted daily, you can't be fair to all of them. That is just a sad truth and that is how it is. 

Here are things that I think could work:

-Personalized feeds that recommend you games that you could like without looking at it's popularity

-Resources for promoting games and communities integrated to the platform such as on itch io

-Quality ratings. Your game could get boosted in the algorithm by quality. Games could get quality points such as starts given by the gamers, moderators or AI reviewing the games 

Thank you very much for your suggestions dna yes... don't worry we will work hard about that.

The advice you gave us are fine, but we also want to make them a bit more advanced. For exmaples

Resources for promoting games and communities integrated to the platform... well, yes we thought about that very deeply. At the moment we have implemented a rewarding system based on credits/points that developers can spend later to promote their games.

Personalised feeds that recommend your games, yes! In several ways.

Further... we will open the platform and hopefully we will have the first developers start publishing games so as soon as we have more games, we can think about different personalised section in the front page. So each user can personalise their search.

We also thought about a real-time system to show new games based on the factors above.

Quality ratings. Ok it might sound discriminatory, but if done properly it might works

Please just stay touch, we will publish screenshots about our platform soon, so you can have a better idea about some sections.

Thanks and feel free to shhare your proposts and feedbacks

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Sounds good!

Thank you very much, stay in touch and join us as soon as we open the markerplace... soon for the first vendors in beta version :)