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Next Fest Q&A May 2024
Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Topics covered in this presentation:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:17 What are the deadlines to register
00:02:50 Recommendations on running a live stream - partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/broadcast
00:04:16 Demos vs playtests during Next Fest
00:05:18 Can demos be released before Next Fest
00:07:30 Can the demo build be updated after being uploaded
00:08:19 Press Preview event prior to Next Fest - partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/upcoming_events/nextfest
00:10:03 Submission deadlines
00:11:10 More about the Press Preview
00:12:02 Official Marketing Material inclusion deadline
00:13:17 What is the popularity of Next Fest by region
00:14:47 Can demos be posted places in addition to Steam for Next Fest
00:15:21 Does the livestream version of the demo need to be the same as the store page version
00:16:30 Is there a deadline for the Steam Store Page
00:17:25 Are Next Fest participants required to be a Steam exclusive
00:17:54 October Next Fest demo deadline
00:18:17 How to be confident of Next Fest participation status
00:19:54 Are there regional restrictions for Next Fest participation
00:20:27 Deadlines for Press Preview
00:20:56 Registration deadlines
00:21:55 Store page deadline
00:23:07 Will the demo be available to the public at the same time as the Press Preview
00:23:52 Are there any special considerations for being included in Next Fest
00:24:54 Testing demos on Steam - partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos#5
00:25:38 Can livestreams be a pre-recorded video
00:27:08 Is the Press Preview list the responsibility of the developer or Steam
00:28:36 Is inclusion in Next Fest based on the store page and demo
00:30:02 Can demo builds be updated after initial submission
00:30:48 What restrictions are there in Next Fest participation
00:31:52 Multi-player servers
00:32:40 Multi-player demos
00:33:58 Should a livestream be looping for 24 hours
00:34:52 What should a livestream or trailer look like
00:35:51 When should the store page go live to the public
00:37:03 Can a demo be updated after initial build review
00:37:33 Registration deadline changes to be aware of
00:38:46 How does the press know a demo is available
00:39:20 What happens during press preview - partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/upcoming_events/nextfest
00:39:49 Official Next Fest Asset Kit
00:40:15 When should a game release after participation in Next Fest
00:41:27 How long should a demo be available for Press Preview
00:42:24 Is promoting a previously released game allowed during Next Fest
00:43:56 Number of Steam Festivals allowed for a game
00:45:04 Are there bast practices for Next Fest and Early Access launch timing
00:46:12 Is there a limit to the number of games participating in Next Fest
00:47:16 What type of content drives the most engagement
00:47:52 Next Fest Press Preview opt-out deadline
00:48:38 Steam games language support and visibility
00:50:08 How long should a demo be
00:51:33 Is there data available for the size and reach of Next Fest
00:53:16 Should a game have multiple trailers or a single trailer that gets replaced
00:53:45 Using the Next Fest Press Kit
00:54:12 Best practices for showing up on the front page of Next Fest
00:55:43 Is there data on the impact of livestreams during Next Fest
00:56:34 Does Steam highlight specific games for the Press Preview
00:57:19 Wrap-up
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Best Practices: Developing an audience while developing your game - GDC 2024
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Join Kaci as she walks through important concepts to remember while developing a game and launching on Steam. 00:00 - Intro 00:15 - The best marketing tool for your game 01:19 - How Steam is built 03:13 - The right way to market on Steam 05:04 - Two questions to ask 06:06 - Marketing examples 06:17 - Three phases of development 07:40 - Have a home base 08:16 - Building the store page 08:41 - Tr...
Next Fest Q&A March 2024
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest. Topics covered in this presentation: 00:00:00 Open 00:00:05 Intro 00:00:58 What's the difference between the two livestreams 00:02:13 How does the press preview work 00:04:14 Are you guaranteed to be featured in the Next Fest you sign up for 00:05:42 How can you max...
Next Fest Q&A January 2024
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest. Topics covered in this presentation: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:55 How long does it take to approve submitted pages 00:03:44 Does your game have to be finished in order to participate in Next Fest 00:05:18 What is the best time to do a live stream and do you need to creat...
Next Fest Q&A December 2023
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest. Topics covered in this presentation: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:03 - Do you recommend two livestreams 00:02:16 - Where to schedule a livestream 00:02:59 - When will the schedule be posted about the broadcast 00:03:58 - What are good tags to use for my game 00:05:39 - Wh...
Steam Visibility: How Games Get Surfaced to Players
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This video focuses on how Steam works to connect players with games they are likely to enjoy. Learn about the discovery mechanisms at work behind the scenes on Steam, which inputs matter, and how Valve approaches the operation of a PC platform where any kind of game can find its audience. You can download an English PDF of the presentation here: steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/ima...
Next Fest Q&A September 2023
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest. Topics covered in this presentation: 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Support tickets 02:27 - What if I don't have a Steam Store Page live yet 03:42 - State of assets and Steam Store Page for registration 05:12 - Registration deadlines 07:12 - Do I need to have additional appr...
Next Fest Q&A August 2023
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Next Fest Q&A June 2023
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Next Fest Q&A April 2023
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Next Fest Q&A March 2023
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Next Fest Q&A December 2022
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Next Fest Q&A October 2022
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Steamworks Quick Tips - Bulk Pricing Tool
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In this video, we walk you through how to use the updated Bulk Pricing Tool to update your game pricing and also explain recommended pricing conversion. Questions? Feel free to reach out to us at partner.steamgames.com/contact
Next Fest Q&A July 2022
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Members of the Steam Business Team answer developers' questions about registering for and getting the most out of Steam Next Fest.
Next Fest Q&A May 2022
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Next Fest Q&A May 2022
Next Fest Q&A March 2022
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Next Fest Q&A March 2022
Steam Deck Hardware (an Overview)
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Steam Deck Hardware (an Overview)
Development Without a Dev-Kit
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Development Without a Dev-Kit
Steam on Deck
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Steam on Deck
Proton Support
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Proton Support
APU Deep-dive with AMD
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APU Deep-dive with AMD
Steam Input
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Steam Input
Steamworks Quick Tips - Introducing Steam Deck Verified
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Steamworks Quick Tips - Introducing Steam Deck Verified
Steamworks Quick Tips - Steam Deck
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Steamworks Quick Tips - Steam Deck
Steamworks Quick Tips - Collaborative Bundles
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Steamworks Quick Tips - Collaborative Bundles
Hands-on with Steam’s Communication Tools
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Hands-on with Steam’s Communication Tools
Let Updates Do the Talking
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Let Updates Do the Talking
Communicating With Players Part 2, with Joe Tirado from System Era Softworks
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Communicating With Players Part 2, with Joe Tirado from System Era Softworks
Communicating With Players Part 1, with Jenny Windom from Rose City Games
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Communicating With Players Part 1, with Jenny Windom from Rose City Games

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @verycoolseth
    @verycoolseth 10 годин тому

    womp womp

  • @danm3573
    @danm3573 15 днів тому

    Did he just dox his own password?

  • @Strongfinger777
    @Strongfinger777 17 днів тому

    If Early Access is not a marketing tool, then why do you unfairly promote and market "some" early access games and not others?

  • @Thorninjag
    @Thorninjag 20 днів тому

    He looks like Gordon without Glasses.

  • @northrak
    @northrak 21 день тому

    To anyone still having problems with this: at 6:51 when he runs the app_build, what you want to do instead, is run the new file called simple_app_build. Make sure you alter the depot and idapp values inside this one too.

  • @aFewBitsShort
    @aFewBitsShort 22 дні тому

    What's the best way to tag cross-genre games? Accurately include all major tags? This seems to confuse steam about what type of game it is. Or pick one of your genres and focus tags on that?

  • @bonkmaykr
    @bonkmaykr 24 дні тому

    If only UA-cam would take notes and be this honest with us.

  • @Bigfoistchannel
    @Bigfoistchannel 25 днів тому

    I was just told by a marketing company that I should relaunch my early access game (with a different name) as it didn't have 7000 wishlists at luanch... Can I assume this is rubbish then ?

  • @Citizen1482608
    @Citizen1482608 26 днів тому

    There is one flaw with STEAM that needs to be addressed someday. Hopefully soon. Is this one... You work on a project for a year or 3 and release it on Steam. You start seeing sales and income... You're happy because your work has paid off. Then the day to get paid comes (one month latar) In this example you are expecting 17K, why 17K because it's a great number? 17gross will now shrink to about 12K, then shrink further by STEAM magic (30% cut for STEAM of your work) to a total of about 4500-5500 in your bank depending on refund percentage. Imagine if STEAM paid for those refunds all by itself, I bet it would become just like Sony on those refunds. Bottom line, they really need to stop kicking down indie devs and small studios who can't reach that epic sales threshold to generate billions of juicy $ for STEAM to chew on and then give them a discount from 30 to 10%.

  • @FiveOwlsGames
    @FiveOwlsGames 27 днів тому

    I feel Valve is one of those company, which really take care about game devs.

  • @Jackfromshack
    @Jackfromshack 27 днів тому

    Any tips on how to fix tf2?

  • @BeyondImaginationzz
    @BeyondImaginationzz 27 днів тому

    please bring back Steam dev days

  • @Tbjbu2
    @Tbjbu2 27 днів тому

    thanks for the timestamps as always

  • @ChibiM11
    @ChibiM11 27 днів тому

    #saveTF2 Valve, you have no excuse and the company should be ashamed of themselves for letting things get as far as it has. #fixTF2 already!

  • @carlthewinner
    @carlthewinner 27 днів тому

    :)

  • @Strongfinger777
    @Strongfinger777 28 днів тому

    On the topic of secret handshakes, I find interesting that shortly after I posted my comment here, that a Freemason gave me my first negative review after playing my game as badly as he could. After checking his other reviews he gives a mix of recommended and not recommending games, even when his comments contradict his score.

  • @iamarugin
    @iamarugin 28 днів тому

    12:05 thank god you are talking about this. I am tired of games that don't show UI on their store pages. You will never know what the game is if UI is not included.

  • @christopher.nguyen
    @christopher.nguyen 29 днів тому

    This is like Valve's sending me a DM to keep making games, as I just started working a Steam release!

  • @rekware9320
    @rekware9320 Місяць тому

    I think i like Biscuit the cat.

  • @tonkanveedgames1085
    @tonkanveedgames1085 Місяць тому

    Excellent advice, thank you.

  • @Tumbolisu
    @Tumbolisu Місяць тому

    i assume leaks are also a great way to develop an audience while developing a game

  • @export2file
    @export2file Місяць тому

    ❤ kaci

  • @bathi1953
    @bathi1953 Місяць тому

    Thanks a lot.I will add to my wishlist once the cat game Store page is out.

  • @JackCarver_Reporting_in
    @JackCarver_Reporting_in Місяць тому

    This is incredibly well done.

  • @clearsky4049
    @clearsky4049 Місяць тому

    A talk on Localization would be amazing.

  • @mikeb3172
    @mikeb3172 Місяць тому

    About keeping your audience; Many games with a poor experience offer "dress up kits" to personify a second life for you to come back to. When a game is good people ignore this completely and still come back.

  • @wolfsnow711
    @wolfsnow711 Місяць тому

    I had zero interest in this video, but Kaci’s manner of speech somehow hooked me and I watched till the end, and even took useful notes. Valve knew what they were doing, right? Also, poor Biscuit, DON’T SILENCE HIM!!!

  • @kirpich158
    @kirpich158 Місяць тому

    Kaci should have her own series about tips for devs on regular basis. also this 6 hour talks seam very needed and I would love to watch it, soooo you know :)

  • @0x8080
    @0x8080 Місяць тому

    These tools have been super easy to use. The level of thoroughness here has been making my title very stable, very quickly, and I'm having a ton of fun developing with steam.

  • @chairshoe81
    @chairshoe81 Місяць тому

    I'll definitely be using these tips prior to release of my new up and coming AAA title Jiggly Catgirl Futa Dungeon 6 Thanks Vulve!

  • @ussul6524
    @ussul6524 Місяць тому

    This as education video was really well made. Learned a lot even I am not a dev. Thank you.

  • @andrewstaidmn
    @andrewstaidmn Місяць тому

    ༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ VOLVO GIVE DOTA DRAGON'S BLOOD BOOK 4 PLEASE ⊂༼ ◕‿◕ ⊂ ༽

  • @andrewstaidmn
    @andrewstaidmn Місяць тому

    ༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ VOLVO GIVE HEAVY UPDATE AND TOURNAMENTS FOR TEAM FORTRESS PLEASE ⊂༼ ◕‿◕ ⊂ ༽

  • @andrewstaidmn
    @andrewstaidmn Місяць тому

    ༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ VOLVO DON'T CHANGE NAME CSGO FOR CS2 PLEASE ⊂༼ ◕‿◕ ⊂ ༽

  • @andrewstaidmn
    @andrewstaidmn Місяць тому

    ༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ VOLVO SAVE ARTIFACT PLEASE ⊂༼ ◕‿◕ ⊂ ༽

  • @gemshards6062
    @gemshards6062 Місяць тому

    so, when can i buy shut up biscuit? 😢

  • @sunbuYT
    @sunbuYT Місяць тому

    #SaveTF2

  • @ChibiM11
    @ChibiM11 Місяць тому

    Maybe take these practices and actually USE THEM, Valve! Fix your games already!! #FixTF2

    • @XDRosenheim
      @XDRosenheim Місяць тому

      Give them an actual reason to fix it...

    • @memereview1337
      @memereview1337 Місяць тому

      TF2 is nearly 20 years old. Let it die before you do.

  • @plainsofpainthegame
    @plainsofpainthegame Місяць тому

    Great video! Thank you!

  • @plainsofpainthegame
    @plainsofpainthegame Місяць тому

    Really great video! Thank you for it!

  • @SonicSonedit
    @SonicSonedit Місяць тому

    Videos like this honestly deserves more views

  • @Strongfinger777
    @Strongfinger777 Місяць тому

    And none of these things apply to early access users, because Steam are now snubbing them.

  • @Strongfinger777
    @Strongfinger777 Місяць тому

    How can you get your word out about your game on other platforms before it launches, when other platforms shadow ban you or openly ban you , while accusing you of advertising?

  • @niolonq
    @niolonq Місяць тому

    Thank you for the free knowledge

  • @TopMeadowInc
    @TopMeadowInc Місяць тому

    Great video! Really nice to get a sense of how the black box of visibility works on Steam

  • @GameUnion
    @GameUnion Місяць тому

    Why is the video delisted? 😱

  • @imaidenx
    @imaidenx Місяць тому

    Steam is a trash

  • @imaidenx
    @imaidenx Місяць тому

    Steam is a trash

  • @imaidenx
    @imaidenx Місяць тому

    Steam is a trash

    • @aricelli6066
      @aricelli6066 Місяць тому

      let me guess, you only play fortnite, rocket league and fall guys?

    • @XDRosenheim
      @XDRosenheim Місяць тому

      Going to elaborate on that, or just talk shit?