r/IndieDevelopers

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m Brad, founder and creative director of ByCherryMedia.

We’re a small creative team specialising in trailers, gameplay editing, devlogs, social content and other video/creative work for games. We’ve just finished rebuilding our website, so I wanted to share it here and introduce ourselves properly.

We’re a small group of friends who have known each other for a long time. We originally met online playing Call of Duty: Ghosts back in 2014. Over the years we all went in different directions, built different careers and picked up different skills. But gaming was something that always kept us connected. Eventually we thought, why not put our skills together and build something around gaming? And that’s basically how ByCherryMedia happened.

Today we’re a small team covering video editing, game capture, motion graphics, music, sound, and localisation. I’m personally responsible for most of the creative/video side of things, with the rest of the team helping across the different areas.

We’ve had the opportunity to work and build relationships with some really amazing game developers from all over the world this last year:

VaultBreakers Map Overview (now unlisted)
VaultBreakers Playtest Showcase (we’ve helped amass over 1 million views for VaultBreakers on YouTube!)
Slumber Realm Trailer
Swimpossible! Launch Trailer
Relooted Demo Trailer

And our new website is finally LIVE - bycherrymedia.com

We’ve tried to make the process as transparent as possible, particularly around pricing. One of the things we’ve added is a pricing estimator, where you can select the type of work you’re looking for and build up an estimate based on the scope and requirements of your project. So rather than having to contact us just to ask how much a trailer or social edit would be, you can get an estimate yourself before even reaching out!

We’re currently taking on a limited number of projects over the next month or so. We’re deliberately keeping the number limited because we’re still a small team, and we’d rather work with a handful of developers and give their projects the attention they deserve than take on everything that comes our way.

If you’re working on an indie game and need a trailer, gameplay video, devlog, social content, motion graphics or something more custom, please check us out!

And if you’re not looking for anything right now that’s completely fine too, we’re always happy to meet other developers and see what people are working on!

Thanks for reading if you’ve gotten this far :)

- Brad

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I recently published the first public prototype of my first game on itch, and I’m trying to decide whether it is worth developing into a larger game.

It’s a mining and kingdom-management game. You start with a small dwarven settlement, automate miners, construct buildings, place soldiers, explore the mountain, and uncover hostile encounters and relics.

The purpose of the demo was to validate whether this core loop was fun.

The demo has been public for 19 days. So far, the itch analytics show:

Views	Downloads	Browser Plays	Ratings	Collections	Comments	7d Imp.	CTR
6,603	22	4,834	11	26	20	2,331	1.16%

The views and browser plays are declining a lot, in the last 7 days I got less than 300 plays.

Marketing so far has consisted of Devlogs and some posts on X. I’ve also posted on incrementaldb and my numbers are 53 upvotes and 18 downvotes.

What I’m struggling with is interpreting these numbers. A low number of plays could mean the game is not attractive, but it could also mean that hardly anyone in its intended audience has seen it.

For developers out there, how would you interpret these numbers? Should I move on to the next project? Try to market the game on other platforms?

I want to know how other developers interpret their numbers and how they validate their demo/prototypes.

Thanks!

Just curious — how many people here actually use a new tab extension in their browser?

I’ve been wondering whether they’re something people genuinely find useful or if most people just stick with the default new tab page.

If you use one, what extension are you using and what do you like about it? Would love to hear what everyone’s setup looks like.