I put together an interactive picture/video slideshow showing off Aces High 3 in order to test an authoring tool (for the work that I do). It occurred to me that, though HTC probably has its own marketing ideas in the works to promote their game, the AH players' community could assist in this too by using this slideshow to help attract new players through a bit of grass-roots marketing, if you folks out there think it's useful.
For instance, if/when we players mention AH3 in discussion forum posts (e.g., Reddit or elsewhere) or tweets, emails, or whatever, rather than just
describing the game, we could
show our audience what AH3 is visually, by linking the slideshow into posts or embedding it on web sites to expose the game to people who don't know about it or have been away from AH3 a long time. To do this, we grab and post one of the links (below) or its embed code:
Slideshow short link:
http://bit.ly/2nWdFJySlideshow long form link:
https://www-drv.com/site/v451ngnjv7for7o2f8anaq/AH3Slideshow/Slideshow Features/Benefits:
- FULLY based on HTML5 and JavaScript (NO FLASH WHATSOEVER!).
- Can be embedded into other web pages, just as YouTube videos can be (the embed link is on the left, beneath the images pane)
- Generally responsive to screen sizes and should be usable on mobile devices
- Based on players' posted screenshots (web-optimized), credits to them on last page
- Includes links to YouTube videos about AH gameplay, links to HTC sites and HTC Oculus Store page.
- Is a freely available, open resource to benefit our AH community
Note to HTC: Again, I'm sure you folks have your own plans for more professionally developed marketing, but if you think this is good enough to help promote your game using a bit of quick, low-cost guerrilla marketing, by all means use it too.
FWIW,
