Hi, Ells&Pills is here!
In this news we want to pay attention to such a habitual thing in our daily life, like social networks. If big texts tire you, you can skip the entire text until "In general..".
Stupid or not, we didn't originally plan to actively manage social media or promote our games on them. The only thing we find useful and actually use is YouTube, for posting our game trailers. Sure, we have a half-dead account on Reddit and Twitter (X, sorry), but we log in there, like, once every 3-9 months, lol.
Recently, we connected with another developer and even agreed to join him in a Collaborative Bundle celebrating the release of his first game. We'd never done anything like that before, so we were curious to gain new experience and check out what it's all about. But the point is different, the developer asked us: "why don't you create your own community on Discord? It's the coolest platform, definitely do it!". After mulling over his inspiring words a bit, we figured it's worth a shot.
Honestly, we'd like to gather people here on Steam, as this is our most important platform. But even though players love Steam, and it's not just a game store but a whole ecosystem (profile, game library, achievements, badges, trading market, and so on), as a social network, it's just awful. There are many basic things missing here that could be organized simply, accessibly, and intuitively for both players and developers.
In general.. We'll try to gradually develop our Community on Discord, although it will take a lot of time and there's no idea if it will be worth it or not. There we'll have the opportunity to:
- Conveniently share news regarding the development and updates of our games, so that everything is in one place.
- Periodically show our works in progress, various funny things that don't belong here.
- Hold polls. Yeah, sometimes you really want to know the opinion of your audience, but here in Steam there are no such features.
- Occasionally hold free giveaways of our games in honor of some events. We all love freebies and gifts.
Moreover, for you there will be the opportunity to ask something from other players or us directly, seek help, share found bugs, suggest something funny regarding games. And overall, it will be easier to keep up with our news.
Link to join: Ells&Pills Community
Best Regards,
Ells&Pills