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You Build the Game.
We Build the Path to Players.

Ahmad Agency helps game developers turn great games into discoverable, marketable and player-focused products through research, positioning, audience development and coordinated marketing.

An abstract illustration of a game world connected by a winding path to a growing cluster of players, representing a game reaching its audience through marketing.

Why game marketing

A Great Game Still Needs a Way to Be Found.

Game development and game marketing are different disciplines. Development creates the game. Marketing focuses on understanding the game, the market and the player — then building the positioning, discoverability, presentation, acquisition, engagement, conversion and retention that connect the two.

Game Development

Creates the experience.

Game Marketing

Builds the connection.

Players

Discover, engage and play.

The marketing system

Marketing Works Best as a Connected System, Not a Collection of Disconnected Tasks.

Select a stage to see what it covers.

Services

Everything Around the Game That Helps It Get Discovered.

01

Market Intelligence & Strategy

Understanding the game, its market and its players before deciding how to market it.

What's included
  • Game market research
  • Competitor analysis
  • Player and review analysis
  • Target audience research
  • Market positioning
  • Differentiation strategy
  • Geographic & language market analysis
  • Market opportunity identification
  • Pre-launch, launch and post-launch strategy

02

Game Listing & Store Optimization

Listing establishes the game's presence on relevant platforms. Optimizing improves how it's presented so visitors understand its value quickly.

What's included
  • Steam store/page setup & optimization
  • Steam capsule presentation strategy
  • Steam tags, metadata & messaging
  • Wishlist conversion strategy
  • itch.io, Game Jolt & IndieDB listings
  • Cross-platform listing consistency
  • Store screenshot & trailer presentation strategy
  • Store localization opportunities
  • Ongoing store/page optimization

03

Marketing Foundation & Assets

The materials and messaging every other marketing effort depends on.

What's included
  • Professional game website / game headquarters
  • Press kit creation & distribution system
  • Game messaging
  • Marketing asset organization
  • Promotional graphics
  • Trailer & screenshot strategy
  • Capsule/key art presentation guidance
  • Media/contact information setup

04

Audience Development & Content Marketing

One part of a larger system — not the entire marketing service.

What's included
  • Target audience development
  • Social media & platform-specific content strategy
  • Short-form video strategy
  • Content planning
  • Game-focused & community-oriented content
  • Player discovery campaigns
  • Content distribution, performance analysis & optimization

05

Community & Player Engagement

Turning interested followers into an active community.

What's included
  • Discord community setup & management
  • Player engagement & community activities
  • Player feedback collection & discussions
  • Developer/player communication systems
  • Community events & engagement campaigns
  • Between-update engagement

06

Creator, Influencer & Media Outreach

Connecting the game with the people who reach its players.

What's included
  • Creator/influencer research (YouTube, Twitch, TikTok)
  • Creator outreach & demo/key distribution
  • Journalist & games-media research
  • Press outreach & review opportunities
  • Media relationship development
  • Campaign coordination

07

Wishlist, Launch & Player Acquisition

Turning attention into wishlists, registrations and launch-day momentum.

What's included
  • Wishlist & pre-registration strategy
  • Pre-launch & launch campaigns
  • Launch coordination
  • Player acquisition & traffic generation
  • Conversion & promotional strategy
  • Creator campaign coordination
  • Cross-platform campaigns

08

Retention, Expansion & Growth

What happens after launch matters as much as launch itself.

What's included
  • Player retention & re-engagement campaigns
  • Post-launch marketing
  • Community retention
  • Content-driven reactivation
  • Market expansion & localization opportunities
  • New platform opportunities
  • Performance analysis & long-term growth strategy

Full marketing partnership

From Pre-Launch to Long-Term Growth.

Ahmad Agency can support developers across the game marketing lifecycle — not guaranteeing results, but bringing a consistent, research-led approach to each stage.

Pre-Launch

Research, positioning, store strategy, content and community foundations.

Launch

Creator/media outreach, player acquisition and launch coordination.

Post-Launch

Retention, community management and continued player acquisition.

Continued Growth

Expansion, optimization and long-term marketing strategy.

Work & market intelligence

Work & Market Intelligence

Additional case studies will appear here as more projects are completed. Each follows the same format: research, findings, and how they translated into strategic recommendations.

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Market Intelligence & Competitor Analysis

Glowing Life

A research and positioning project exploring how Glowing Life could differentiate itself in a crowded genre.

The Game

Glowing Life is a narrative-driven exploration game in which the player restores light to a fading world. The research below was conducted to understand where the game could stand out and how it could reach the players most likely to care about it.

The Research

Research covered comparable titles, storefront positioning, player review sentiment on similar games, and the language used by this audience when describing what they value in exploration-driven narrative games.

Market Observations

Observation

The "cozy exploration" segment of narrative games has grown, but store pages in this space often lead with atmosphere rather than the specific player action that makes each game distinct.

Competitor Insights

Observation

Comparable titles that performed well on wishlist conversion tended to show the core mechanic within the first three capsule images, rather than relying on mood alone.

Strategic Opportunities

Recommendation

Reorder the store page to lead with the "restore light" mechanic, and adjust store copy to name the specific feeling the game creates rather than describing it only in genre terms.

Player Journey

Explore→ Discover→ Restore→ See the World Change→ Continue

Developer Feedback

Developer feedback for this project has not yet been published.

What developers say

What Developers Say

Testimonials from developers will appear here as projects are completed and reviewed.

About

Marketing Starts With Understanding the Game.

Ahmad Agency approaches every project from two perspectives at once: player and marketer. Understanding the actual experience a game creates comes before deciding how that game should be marketed.

Game Understanding

Playing and studying the game itself before making any marketing recommendation.

Player Perspective

Considering how a real player discovers, evaluates and decides to try a game.

Market Research

Studying comparable games, platforms and audience behavior.

Positioning & Discovery

Translating research into clear, honest positioning.

Strategic Execution

Carrying that positioning through store pages, content, community and outreach.

Contact

Have a Game That Deserves to Be Discovered?

Let's understand the game, the market and the opportunity before deciding what marketing should look like.