{"id":159,"date":"2021-09-23T06:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2021-09-23T06:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:49:22","slug":"so-you-want-people-to-wishlist-your-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/so-you-want-people-to-wishlist-your-game\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want people to wishlist your game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re a smaller-scale indie dev, &#8220;the algorithm&#8221; can be very important to your game&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Signal State made it to the &#8216;Popular Upcoming&#8217; list on Steam&#8217;s frontpage (don&#8217;t ask me how), and this is what our daily wishlist graph looks like now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n-1024x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"160\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=160\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n-1024x404.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n-768x303.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n-1200x473.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/240219767_10226523598139914_8782211727746042138_n.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For comparison, the first spike was from the playable demo during Steam Next Fest.(this is a linear scale graph)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a smaller-scale indie dev, &#8220;the algorithm&#8221; can be very important to your game&#8217;s success. The Signal State made it to the &#8216;Popular Upcoming&#8217; list on Steam&#8217;s frontpage (don&#8217;t ask me how), and this is what our daily wishlist graph looks like now: For comparison, the first spike was from the playable demo during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}