How do you advertise your stories? (was: What do you do?)

[SelLi]

When you do put your finished VN on VNDB, I notice that a lot of them have NO description, and some even have NO tags, and a lot have NO screenshots. If you're going to put your VN up onto VNDB- or anywhere really- say something about it! Put the extra effort into it so that people will actually care about it!
It makes no sense to me @_@ why would anyone who spent all the love and time into their game not bother to write a description or try to lure people into it. Whenever I see a VN with no description or anything, I just keep hitting the "random" button.

[bunbun]

When you do put your finished VN on VNDB, I notice that a lot of them have NO description, and some even have NO tags, and a lot have NO screenshots. If you're going to put your VN up onto VNDB- or anywhere really- say something about it! Put the extra effort into it so that people will actually care about it!
It makes no sense to me @_@ why would anyone who spent all the love and time into their game not bother to write a description or try to lure people into it. Whenever I see a VN with no description or anything, I just keep hitting the "random" button.

I totally agree with you
It's a huge turn off when there's little or no description and screen shoots of the game.
I tend to get off a post when there's too many words and no image at all.
I think posting some screen shoots and feature of game anywhere you advertise would increase the audience.
making an opening and posting it to youtube will help too ;;;

[teacup]

Updating frequently on Lemmasoft seems to be the best method for me. Updating your work in progress thread consistently with images and previews can really get you a large following, so that by the time you release your game, you already have several fans waiting to play it. Also, having a blog has definitely helped me in gaining fans/popularity. Tell your friends about it, too. Word of mouth is really the only thing that's got my game, (P)lanets, to spread outside of lemmasoft.

When you do put your finished VN on VNDB, I notice that a lot of them have NO description, and some even have NO tags, and a lot have NO screenshots. If you're going to put your VN up onto VNDB- or anywhere really- say something about it! Put the extra effort into it so that people will actually care about it!
It makes no sense to me @_@ why would anyone who spent all the love and time into their game not bother to write a description or try to lure people into it. Whenever I see a VN with no description or anything, I just keep hitting the "random" button.

In my case, other people put my VN on VNDB, when I wasn't even aware of it. =__=
Someone even put my game on there before I offically announced it. My game Circum[N]avigate, which is still in its early, early stages, is already on VNDB. Someone put it there when I really didn't want it there yet... sigh.
Someone also put my WIP (P)lanets 2 up, which already got two ratings by someone and I haven't even released a demo yet (what the hell, seriously. don't rate a game before you've even played it). VNDB is a really good site, but the fact that other people can edit pages as they please makes it a little unreliable (kinda like wikipedia). So I wouldn't always trust VNDB.