Well great news, all games published on HypeHype are automatically entered to take part into the challenge. You can monitor your game's performance from the Game's Stats page.
Be sure to track your games engagement along with key metrics, data points and insights and even playtesting videos to help improve your game.
Yes! Competition award payments will be made in USD.
You can also earn more money through Engagement-based Payouts.
To qualify to win, your game needs to get over 15% of players to return to play 3 days after they first start playing your game (return to play the game at least once on day 3 from the day they first played it).
EXAMPLE:
If 1000 players start playing your game on Monday, 150 of those players still need to be playing your game on Thursday.
After the September 15th 2024 deadline, the top performing games will receive increased boost visibility by being on the front page of HypeHype in order to bring more players and properly evaluate their performance.
Games that reach the Day 3 retention target by the deadline qualify to win. From the qualifying games, those that retain over 15% D3 retention also with the increased visibility, the $100,000 prize pool will be awarded in the following way:
The entry with the best D3 retention wins | $60,000 USD |
The entry with the second best D3 wins | $30,000 USD |
The entry with the third best D3 wins | $10,000 USD |
Retention is the percentage of new users who come back to your game after playing it for the first time. To improve this metric, focus on your game's core loop, first-time user experience, and performance.
If your game is good and performs well, it will start to get more visibility and players. You will also start earning the platform currency HypeX from players who are playing your game 🙌
You should of course share your game with your friends, family and online via your social medias!
Just use the unique URL link found in your game, by pressing Share.
You can also boost the visibility of your game on HypeHype with HypeX.
This way, you will be able to quickly kickstart your game's visibility and get more players.
There are many factors that determine the success of your game. We'll cover some of the most important things to consider to give your game the best chance of delighting your players and climbing the top charts.
Discover how to use your game metrics to potentially improve your overall player satisfaction and perfromance.
See what aspects are working well along with identifying some aspects that aren't quite delivering the results as you quite expected.
No problem, simply head on over to our Discord Server and ask away in our dedicated Game-Jams Channel.
In order to receive prize money, you must agree to our Terms of Service and meet the simple requirements set out in those Terms, some of which are as follows:
18 years of age or older. (If you are younger, it is possible to request the payment to be done eg. to your parents account with their consent)
Having complied with the HypeHype Community Guidelines.
To avoid abuse (e.g., by bots), we reserve the right to remove suspected bot user accounts from the retention calculations. If there is substantial doubt of bot accounts altering the key performance indicators of the winning games.
HypeHype reserves the right to inspect the issue and make its own judgment based on the inspection.