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[frolacosta]

What is IndieGo?
IndieGo Magazine is an indie gaming magazine which has been created to preview/review indie games and our goal is to spread the word of indie gaming to the world.

A new magazine will be released every month and in the magazine we will have some previews/reviews, a feature of a new or up and coming indie game, tips and tricks on great indie games such as Minecraft, Competitions to win free indie games or gaming software, free giveaways and more!


Issue #1 - Release Date: 22nd September 2011
In the first issue we have reviews of Avatar Farm, Metropolis online and Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Minecraft tips and tricks. Awards for this months best indie games. A feature of Team OverReacts A Shapians Tale. And a lot more about indie gaming.

There will also be two competitions, one to win a free Xbox 360 game and another to win a free copy of Game Maker 8.1 Pro!

The first issue will be around 80p to buy a digital PDF copy or around £2.50 to buy a printed paper back copy. A link will be supplied on the day of release.


Contact Information
For more information please visit our Facebook page or contact us on Twitter.
When we get 25 likes on our Facebook page we will give away a free xbox 360 indie game for free to one lucky fan!

Alternatively, you can email us at indiego.mag@gmail.com or message me here.

How you can get involved
If you have a new indie game coming out and would like us to write a piece on it or if you write a review for an indie game, please send an email to apply.indiego@gmail.com with some information about the game and we will be in touch!



YoyoGames Partnership
IndieGo has formed a partnership with Scottish game developers YoYo games. The partnership will enable some brilliant benefits for both parties, for IndieGo it means(alongside other things)our magazine will be full of YoYo games related competitions including in our first issue free games and a voucher for the full GameMaker 8.1. IndieGo will have all the latest and exclusive news on YoYo games. So expect lots of competitions and lots of fantastic content in IndieGo as a result.
If you have any questions about this news, please do not hesitate to ask!

[chance]

YoyoGames Partnership
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IndieGo will have all the latest and exclusive news on YoYo games.

Exclusive? You mean news that's available only to your magazine? Like insider information that's not posted in the YoYo News Announcements?

Also, does the first issue include a pair of scissors, so I can trim the over-sized banner that falls off the page?

[beeproductions]

It would be more interesting if you actually release the issue so we can see what's this all about.

Deciding about the logo it doesn't look so professional.

[The Legend]

I agree. The logo does look unprofessional, but this is actually a good magazine idea! I would love to write an article for it!

[theg721]

It would be more interesting if you actually release the issue so we can see what's this all about.

Deciding about the logo it doesn't look so professional.

It gets worse.

[chance]

The first issue will be around 80p to buy a digital PDF copy or around £2.50 to buy a printed paper back copy. A link will be supplied on the day of release.

No free online version? If not, do you expect us to purchase your magazine, without knowing what's inside? lol.... You must be joking.

And how will it be purchased? Paypal? Credit card?

Lastly, what the hell is "80p"? You mean "pence"? You do realize this is an international forum, right? Maybe you should stick with Euros or USD.

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Edited by chance, 17 September 2011 - 05:37 PM.

[Rusty]

Lastly, what the hell is "80p" ? Is that "pence"?

No, it's the sound of a failing business plan.

Most customers you'll receive will not have the means to pay for an online magazine and I'm sure as hell not going to bother putting in my payment details for 80p. Your logo looks unprofessional and your business plan for the magazine doesn't even think about what customers you're trying to attract.

[chance]

Your logo looks unprofessional and your business plan for the magazine doesn't even think about what customers you're trying to attract.

True. In other words, like most ezines we see here.

What's different about this one, is that he expects people to pay for it.

[pgg]

Does YoYo Games know about this "partnership" they have formed with you?

Edited by pgg, 17 September 2011 - 07:17 PM.

[beeproductions]

Does YoYo Games know about this "partnership" they have formed with you?

I BEEETT No:))))

[Nocturne]

As you claim an "exclusive" "partnership" with Yoyo games, and you are also planning on selling the e-zine, I will leave this topic open for now as it has some material for discusion... BUT this forum is for news relating to the community and as such is not your personal publicity space (and your post certainly reads like an advert). In future, wait until you have something to show us before posting please...

[Erik Leppen]

So, frolacosta... are you still confident that you've found the right audience?
I mean, you're not exactly getting a warm welcome...

You have to know the GMC is allergic to anything that costs money. And that includes GM

Also we have got many "magazines" in the past, some were good, some were bad. So this is a sensitive area of the GMC as well...

I think if you ask money for a magazine we do not know, you can expect maybe one, two, paying customers. It might even be so that you can generate more income (in the long run) by releasing the mag for free, taking some time to build a userbase (through consistent quality of subsequent releases), and when you've got that, start working with adverts inside the magazine or on your website to generate some ad revenue. And if not more income, you'd certainly get a lot more publicity.

Edited by Erik Leppen, 17 September 2011 - 07:49 PM.

[frolacosta]

YoyoGames Partnership...IndieGo will have all the latest and exclusive news on YoYo games.

Exclusive? You mean news that's available only to your magazine? Like insider information that's not posted in the YoYo News Announcements?Also, does the first issue include a pair of scissors, so I can trim the over-sized banner that falls off the page?

Yes, only to IndieGo Magazine.

Does YoYo Games know about this "partnership" they have formed with you?

Of course they do. It would be a pretty pointless partnership if they didn't know about it. That's how we're able to have competitions for free versions of GM and YYG games.

[Rusty]

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Noticed how you dodged the logo situation, payment problems, audience confusion and lack of clear business plan. Good going there. Looking much more professional now.

[chance]

If frolacosta says he has an agreement with YoYo to gather exclusive information and to award free copies of GameMaker, we should take him at his word.

@frolacosta: why not just make the first few issues free? That way, you'll see if anybody here likes it well enough to pay for it.

[pgg]

There's a demo issue linked from the IndieGo (nice name!) topic at the YoYo Games forums but you have to create an account with HP to download it.
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/258133/follow

Can't we just have a PDF download link?

[Desert Dog]

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Noticed how you dodged the logo situation, payment problems, audience confusion and lack of clear business plan. Good going there. Looking much more professional now.

He has no obligation to reply to 'the logo doesn't look professional!' posts. I'm a bit tired of hearing 'expert' GMC members opinions on Logo's. I'm more tired of them demanding attention for their opinions.

Edited by Desert Dog, 17 September 2011 - 09:15 PM.

[chance]

I couldn't set up an account there, but you can get a short preview here. It looks OK. About the same average quality as most GMC mags we see here.

And since the digital versions are free, we have nothing to complain about. So good luck with it.

Edited by chance, 17 September 2011 - 09:29 PM.

[Nocturne]

Oddly enough I see nothing GM / Yoyo related in that preview... but I do see editorial gems like "a game for smart people, not stoopid", which kinda puts me off. I guess (hope!) that as it's only a preview and not the real thing the guys didn´t take things too seriously...

[Rusty]

Oddly enough I see nothing GM / Yoyo related in that preview... but I do see editorial gems like "a game for smart people, not stoopid", which kinda puts me off. I guess (hope!) that as it's only a preview and not the real thing the guys didn´t take things too seriously...

Mark, if you didn't realize there was nothing Indie related either, just half a mag's worth of random images and content thrown into a mock up file.