I've spent the past few days promoting Catastrophe X. The best results came from making an update post on reddit, where people seemed to be pretty enthusiastic about the game. After posting on Saturday, I spent most of the weekend playing against the redditors that came online. At one point there were nearly ten players online with multiple battles going on, including a three-player battle for the first time -- exciting! Things have now died down a bit, but I have reserved a sponsored link on reddit's /r/gaming for later this week that should help generate some more buzz.
This week I will continue to focus on promotion. It's time-consuming, but there is no point focusing solely on features until more players are around to use them. To make the game playable despite the lack of opponents, I have set up an alarm on my computer that alerts me when a new player signs on. When anybody comes online during the day (in North America), I should usually be online within a few moments for a match.
Expect new features to be deployed over the next few days – more soon!
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