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Victoria Tran is the Communications Director at Kitfox Games (Boyfriend Dungeon, Moon Hunters, Dwarf Fortress, and more!) and half of the game dev webcomic, Peachbutt Comics. In her spare time, she speaks at and/or organizes local game events and has worked as a social media consultant for various games such as Omensight and Leap of Fate. Previously, she was a social media specialist for a large mobile game with over 5 million active weekly users. Find her on Twitter @TheVTran for more shenanigans.

 

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Making People Understand And Care About Your Game
Posted by Victoria Tran on Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:53:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Indie, Social/Online
An exploration into the customer value proposition, AKA the full, persuasive explanation as to why someone would want your game and what they’d get if they bought it.

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Designing Communities for Kindness
Posted by Victoria Tran on Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:37:00 EDT in Business/Marketing
How to better set up your (game) communities for kinder user experiences.

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Fashion in Games: Why It Matters
Posted by Victoria Tran on Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:03:00 EDT in Design
Fashion in games is one of the most downplayed parts of the medium, yet it provides a sense of immersion, comfort and identity in their characters while simultaneously empowering gamers of all kinds. Let's talk about it.

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Boyfriend Dungeon’s $272k Kickstarter Postmortem
Posted by Victoria Tran on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:26:00 EDT in Business/Marketing
A look at the success, failure, and strategies that went into the Boyfriend Dungeon Kickstarter.

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Boyfriend Dungeon's Kickstarter: Week 1 Social Stats
Posted by Victoria Tran on Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:33:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Indie, Social/Online
A dive into the social numbers behind Boyfriend Dungeon's Kickstarter, which reached it's goal of $50k USD in just over 6 hours.

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Fashion in Games: Why It Matters
[Blog - 07/14/2019 - 09:03]

I touched on it very ...

I touched on it very briefly, but yeah, microtransactions are a great money maker Ethics of microtransactions debateable, but that 's a whole other thing.