NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing

Crafting engaging games to promote products and services.

#Advergames #Gamification #BrandedGames

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

🚫 Stop making ads people skip.
🎮 Let them play with your brand instead.

Turn boring promos into fun, branded games that collect leads

📹 Watch how advergames work:
https://t.co/iuNFUhO8e1

#Advergame #BrandedGames #InteractiveMarketing #CreativeAds #DigitalMarketing

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

https://t.co/il9WsxmfK5

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

Your Trade Show Booth Isn't the Problem. The Lack of a Game Is. https://t.co/DVEUA2ZUoJ

[Detective Fantasia EXCALIMURDER @DetFantasia]

Sprite stacking 101 🧩
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

1991 Kmart Super Nintendo commercial

These commercials weren’t just ads — they were pure Christmas fantasy fuel. 🎄🕹️

#snes #retrogaming #90skids #retroads #gaminghistory #retrocommercial #90s #90sthrowback #90comercials #tvcomercial #nintendo #supernintendo #90stv

[Maung Thuta @CypressDahlia]

Unironically, I think ASCII has tons of potential as a graphic style, especially given how much the core techniques have evolved beyond just "one character, one tile". I've actually made a number of small game prototypes that use purely text graphics (not textmode, tho)

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

Before TikTok, before reels… there was Mario teaching us engagement.
We just borrowed the idea.

#brandedgames #advergaming #gamedesign #MarketingInnovation #NaknickGames #gamification #Mario #nintendohistory #gamehistory #mariobrothers

[Muno 🐌 @munosnail]

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, and why is it so difficult to program? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev

The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op (pictured) and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...?

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[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

Remember Candystand?
Back in '97, Wrigley dropped candy-themed advergames (mini-golf vibes) that hooked 11M monthly players to pure fun.
Branded play builds loyalty way better than banners.
https://t.co/hmtxS9V2g9

🍬 #MarketingHistory #Candystand #Advergaming #Gaming

[Retro 🎨🕹️🎮 Pixel Art Academy @retronator]

A new free tool for easier rotoscoping!
Lester by @rubentous1 analyzes the video and generates the frames automatically, as described in the research article "Rotoscope Animation through Video Object Segmentation and Tracking". Kudos for open-sourcing it! https://t.co/jwQ2kb0wE8

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

The first Mario game mastered 3 marketing laws

1️⃣ Instant onboarding
2️⃣ Clear reward mechanics
3️⃣ Continuous dopamine feedback
Replace "players" with "leads" and you get modern gamified funnels.
Brands overcomplicate engagement.
Nintendo solved it in 1985.

#gamification #Mario

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

In the 90s, brands didn't try to "go viral".
They just made video games and people actually wanted to play them.
#coolspot #chestercheetah #90skids #brandedgames #gamification #eventmarketing #tradeshowideas #retrogaming #marketingmemes

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

In 1996, Chex cereal🥣 licensed the Doom engine to make a free game called Chex Quest.
Yes - breakfast cereal made an FPS and became a marketing legend. 🎮😂

#advergames #Gamification #brandedgames

https://t.co/wnFEGXq9yB

[RyanKamos @RyanKamos]

Hi, I'm looking for work! 💡

I'm a pixel game artist, with +9 years of experience doing environment, characters, animation and UI.
I'm mainly looking for long-term contract, but I'm open to other types of works.

Portfolio and more information below +

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

Back in the day, if you were stuck in any Nintendo game, you didn’t Google it - you called the Nintendo Power Line!
From 1988 to 2010, this hotline was the OG gaming lifeline.

Did you ever call?
Drop a 🎮 in the comments

#Nintendo #GamingNostalgia #RetroGaming #90skid

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

@tyler_agg nano

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

The fluid animation in Prince of Persia was created by rotoscoping.
Creator Jordan Mechner filmed his brother, then hand-traced every single movement frame-by-frame. A revolutionary technique for its time.

#PrinceOfPersia #Gaming #Animation #GameDev #RetroGaming #rotoscoping

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

Make your booth a place people talk about long after the show ends.

🕹️ Let’s make your brand playable → https://t.co/ySbBEVs2fQ
📽️ Watch the full video → https://t.co/2dsvBtf8FU

#tradeshow #Gamification #LeadGeneration #EventMarketing #Advergames #BrandedGames

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

🎯 Spending big on a trade show booth?
🚫 Don’t let it be another one people walk past.
🎮 Here’s how branded games can turn your booth into a crowd magnet (and lead machine) 🧵

[NakNick 🕹️ Games as Marketing @NakNickGames]

While your competitor gives away free pens…
You’re giving away dopamine.