Your Pitch Is Fine. Your Delivery Is Not.
summary
Covers exact, usable pitch tactics: hygiene and layered clothing to hide sweat, bring adapters and a spare clicker, practice sweeping eye contact and memorize bullet order rather than scripts, rehearse in front of hostile friends and a full‑length mirror, and use schedule email to send at pitch end so followup lands while the room is impressed. Recommends showing a vertical slice (author spent ~$30–35k), prefer a recorded backup demo, expect ~45–50 minute meetings and many rejections before a funding yes.
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- 0:00Start
- 26:29Indie Game Business From the Discord - if you've got what, 5 minutes to present a pitch deck, what's the best way to ensure you won't run out of time? Which slides should you focus on, and what points should you make?
- 28:22Indie Game Business From the Discord - I know you're not supposed to read directly from the slides, but what do publishers care most about?
- 34:18IndieGameBusiness From the Discord - Are there differences between pitching to publishers vs investors
- 36:28greech11 Sending pitch decks to email address on venture capital websites seems like a black hole. How do you get warm intros to the investors that you know play in your space?
- 43:27IndieGameBusiness From the Discord - If you're very anxious before the presentation, are there some ways that help to calm down?
- 45:48IndieGameBusiness From the Discord - If your mind goes blank during the presentation, what is the best way to recover?
- 47:24knightwolf for horror game pitches, which is more important after setting and story: Visuals or Audio?
- 50:04IndieGameBusiness Discord - How much should you talk about the actual game vs the team, budget etc?
- 52:55Zleud Vertical Slices are supposed to show the final quality, BEFORE most of the trials and errors, tests and improvements. Should they be considered as an investment to seduce the investors/publishers rather than the actual final game?
- 54:37IndieGameBusiness Discord-How is it common to showcase the vertical slice? Do you play it for them in real time? Let them play it? Play a video?
- 56:51how many casual conversations should you have before having an official business conversation?
- 58:54IndieGameBusiness Discord - How long does a publisher pitch usually last?
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