When promoting your game, finding the right streamers to contact is key to increasing the chances that they’ll play it and help you gain visibility. By following this strategy, my first game (The Ouroboros King) reached over 4.5 million views on YouTube. In this post, I’ll walk you through my methodology to identify the most… Continue reading How to find relevant streamers and youtubers for your game
Category: Data Science
How to email streamers to get your game covered
Hi, I’m Oriol, and in February 2023 I launched The Ouroboros King (a chess roguelike). Its success allowed me to quit my job and become a full-time indie developer. The most important external factor for the game’s commercial success was getting covered by content creators, reaching over 4.5 million views on YouTube. In this post,… Continue reading How to email streamers to get your game covered
How much should you pay streamers to play your game?
Having a streamer play your game is probably the most effective way to market your game. One way to increase the odds of this happening is by sponsoring them. But how much should you pay a streamer to play your game while still making money? In this post, I’ll analyze sales data from periods when… Continue reading How much should you pay streamers to play your game?
The Ouroboros King, content and aesthetics update
Since these posts aren’t getting much traction, I haven’t made any in what feels like an eternity. Since I last posted, I have made lots of improvements to the game: You can check out all these improvements on the Steam demo and on itch. Additionally, I’ve participated in a couple of festivals, getting to ~250… Continue reading The Ouroboros King, content and aesthetics update
HS Battlegrounds, optimizing your late game Naga board (post-nerf)
In May 2022 the Naga tribe was introduced to HS Battlegrounds. From the start, the tribe was completely OP with decent early-game units what and crazy late-game scaling. Since then they’ve been nerfed twice, lowering both the initial stats and scaling potential of some minions. In this post I’ll help you build a Naga board… Continue reading HS Battlegrounds, optimizing your late game Naga board (post-nerf)
How to use simulations in data science
Simulation is a very potent tool that is often lacking in many data scientists’ toolkits. In this article, I will teach you how to use simulation in combination with other analytical tools. I will be sharing some educational and professional examples of simulation with Python code. If you are a data scientist (or on the… Continue reading How to use simulations in data science
13 essential tips for learning machine learning and data science
When you start learning, it’s very hard to have a clear direction. You often waste time on uninteresting, useless, or outdated topics. You wander and run in circles. However, once you’ve mastered the topic, it’s easy to look back and see the fastest path from noob to pro. If you only could go back in… Continue reading 13 essential tips for learning machine learning and data science
How to self-learn data science from scratch
When I learned data science I didn’t know where to start, so I wasted many hours learning only tangentially useful stuff. Now, after more than five years as a data science consultant, I know what I would’ve done differently. In this article, I will offer you a roadmap on how self-learn data science with links… Continue reading How to self-learn data science from scratch
How to get a job (in data science)
In this article, I’ll give you a structured approach to getting a data science job. In fact, I’ll be sharing all the techniques that have helped me get offers from startups and management consulting firms, along with examples of my own resume and project portfolio. Additionally, I’ll talk about what I look for when screening… Continue reading How to get a job (in data science)
How to estimate the impact of algorithms
You’ve just finished training a credit risk tree model with a whooping 57 AUC score, and you feel great. And you should. But let’s dig deeper. How much better will this model be than using no model? Or than using the previous model which had an AUC of 48? Have you ever wondered what the… Continue reading How to estimate the impact of algorithms