Linux Game Development Part 5
Marketing and Distribution
by Troy Hepfner

Getting the Word Out

Here are some Linux gaming sites where you can post announcements about your newly released commercial game. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it does contain some of the more popular hangouts for Linux gamers.

These next news sites are not specific to Linux games, but any commercial game release for Linux is still big news, so it may be worth submitting your press release to them. It helped Dirk Dashing distribution a lot. Linux.com actually published an article that featured Dirk Dashing!

Lastly, these sites provide links to lots of open source and commercial software for Linux. You should definitely submit your game and get linked in their game listings!

Selling Your Game

Contents

	Introduction
	Getting the Word Out
	Selling Your Game
	Other Ideas

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The Series

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Distributable Binaries

Part 3: Installers

Part 4: Testing

Part 5: Marketing and Distribution