Promoting your covers elsewhere.

[PieMonster]

We've got a great little community of talented cover makers here. Unfortunately not everyone knows about Steam Game Covers. I'd like to share a few ideas for getting more exposure our site and covers. Please feel free to share your own ideas if you have any.

1. Social Media - Facebook, Google+, and Twitter are great ways to spread the word. If you're a part of any of these services then feel free to use them. We even have buttons for them below each cover you upload.



2. Steam Community Hub - every game on Steam has a Community Hub page which is filled with user generated content - discussions, screenshots, artwork, etc... Feel free to post some of your covers under the "Artwork" tab as I have done below.



3. Other Game Cover sites - there are several other game cover sites out there - VG Box Art http://vgboxart.com/ perhaps being the largest. You can upload your work to those sites as well. Below is a sample of one of my covers on another site:



There are many other ways to promote your covers. Please post some of your own and I'll add them to the list above.

[Kexikus]

Promoting your covers on Steam is a great idea, especially for covers of small indie games.
I did so with my Monaco cover but was too lazy to make any more presentations to share

Another place to publish them would be vgboxart.com. I think I've seen that you uploaded at least some of yours over there PieMonster. I was thinking about doing the same but as I said, I was too lazy to make the presentations.

[Nephilim983]

Cool, will do that

[PieMonster]

Thanks @Kexikus, I've added it to the list.

I haven't been on VG Box Art in a while. You do need to make fancy presentations to get noticed. Like you, I've also been too lazy to that.

[Kexikus]

Well, I had planed to do those presentations once I'm done with my exams for this summer. I just hope that I'll really do that

[scopp]

Great idea
I immediately start work, but first a question: how can I create a presentation for the covers like this?



or, for example, like that of Nephilim983

[Kexikus]

I'm not that experienced with creating presentations but the basics are fairly simple.

First you need to find a box template. VGBoxart has a lot of them over here: http://vgboxart.com/browse-resources/
Then you need to stretch the single parts of your cover (front, spine & back) to fit into that template. If you use Photoshop you can press Ctrl to distort (not sure if that's the right word) the image, so that you get the impression of a three-dimensional box.
That's all I can tell you but I think it should be enough to at least give it a try.

[scopp]

I'm not that experienced with creating presentations but the basics are fairly simple.

First you need to find a box template. VGBoxart has a lot of them over here: http://vgboxart.com/browse-resources/
Then you need to stretch the single parts of your cover (front, spine & back) to fit into that template. If you use Photoshop you can press Ctrl to distort (not sure if that's the right word) the image, so that you get the impression of a three-dimensional box.
That's all I can tell you but I think it should be enough to at least give it a try.

Thanks
Here is my first presentation of Batman AC cover

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... dsuccess=1

[PieMonster]

Awesome @scopp! I just upvoted it in Steam!

[Kexikus]

Great work.

And since I won't upload new presentations anytime soon, here's a link to the one I made ages ago. Btw: Go play Monaco, it's amazing
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =209107956