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Invent a publicity stunt to market a game of your choice for $7!

There have been some wild video game promotional stunts over the years. Launching copies of Mass Effect 3 or a disappointingly small version of Destiny's Traveller into space. The Chuckle Brothers playing Hitman IRL. A million-dollar dubstep gun. And now, for a bit of fun, we want to know what your own fevered imaginations can come up with.

Choose any game you like and come up with a publicity stunt to tie in with its launch (or perhaps another less obvious marketing beat?). Submissions must be tasteful - no dead goats or fake protests poking fun at people, please - and will earn bonus points for being vaguely realistic; given unlimited money we can all imagine a giant mecha firing copies of a video game directly onto people's lawns. Although a million-dollar dubstep gun happened, so perhaps nothing is off the table...

Task: Come up with a publicity stunt to market any game

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Created at 3:27pm, 29th November, 2023. Page last updated at 2:42pm, 16th May, 2024.
Deadline at 11:30pm, 6th December, 2023.

Submissions (8)

Samuel12/6/2023

Picture this:

The War Thunder Extravaganza!

It would be a weekend full of jaw-dropping sights and fun for all ages and all hobbies, accross the entirety of the US and Europe!

Ships sailing, tanks searing and planes soaring! Something for all vehicle lovers.

Some events/spectacles over a weekend could be

Sidecar rides - For the children! There could be all sorts of small carnival rides, vehicular themed for the children to have a blast on
Ship tours - For the historians! Explore the grand and historical ships that the Extravaganza will travel to, whether it's the USS Cleveland or the USS Texas,there's plenty for the bleeding anchors out there!
Aerobatics and Air Shows - For the armchair pilots! Watch the jaw-dropping skills of historical planes as they float through the sky, unimpeded by age, displaying their beauty.
Tank Displays - For the kids that love big machines! I'm sure that little boy inside of most men still love their big machines, and the tank displays would satisfy their need just like that!
Live Firing Demonstrations - For the ones that love a big boom! This is more of an adult one, where people can experience the sheer force of these machines in their true colours

These are just some of the potential events that could happen during the weekend-long Extravaganza, and all vehicles or variants used in the Extravaganza will have to be in War Thunder as well. This could also be a charity event, giving back to the community and restoration projects that keep these great machines and important parts of history going

Lanah Tyra12/4/2023

Won$7

There are these craftsman on Youtube who are making weapons from video games and movies and show how absurd some of them are and how impossibly heavy for example Cloud's sword from FF7 would be.

As a publicity stunt I would show up to towns with game weapons crafted (with a blunt edge ofc you know health and safety) and get the people to try and lift them up, wield them, hit a striking dummy. Kind of a modern day "the person who can pull Excalibur out from this stone shall be king" type of competition.

Are you the strongest person in your town? Did you lift up Cloud's sword? Here, you get some special accessory or materia to use ingame as a reward.

GameofBeardz12/4/2023

The Sims 5

To Celebrate the launch of The Sims 5, EA is choosing 5 lucky fans of the series to live in a Sims House of their own for a whole week with the other 4 randomly selected applicants. (Think Big Brother for those countries that have that show!)

A televised event that runs 24/7, where 5 applicants live in a house for a whole week but what they do, what they can eat, is all decided by viewers votes! Applicants advise how they are feeling using dedicated screens around the house at any time and viewers decide how to run their lives.. and their needs, right from the comfort of their couch (or chair!)

Celebrity guests will appear over the course of the week including, most importantly, Death himself.

Contestants should not be shocked to find doorways suddenly removed or ladders suddenly disappearing from the pool as soon as they get in.

Sims 5 is officially launched when contestants exit the house after the allotted weeks time.

FirestormGamingTeam12/3/2023

So for me, this is quite an easy one, originally CCP Created Dust514 and this was a huge hit but, the circumstances are not quite, fitting for the continued run on it. So now, we have the new FPS Vanguard coming, so how to market this for maximum effect?

So obviously this game is based in the future and I think, a good stunt for this could be the following... With the game's main server being located in London, this is a great city for publicity stunts.

So, with the launch date they could in effect, build an IRL model of said ship within Vanguard, park it up in Trafalgar Square, and then they could hire people to dress up as Vanguard Soldiers/Squad Mates. You could add a huge banner "Vanguard Release Today" and have CCP devs on site, with a limited number of say, free game codes, and cosmetic codes, on hand to discuss the game, and other games they do. Have say, one-time cosmetics for people who turn up to the event itself to lure existing Eve Online players there for a good turnout, maybe make it a three-day event?

Anyway, that's my idea :)

Philip12/3/2023

Won$7

No Man's Sky publicity stunt

When you start a game in No Man's Sky, you start in an Orange space suit and you find yourself on an alien world with your crashed ship (the Radiant Pillar BC1) that you need to repair.

The publicity stunt I'm thinking of would be to create replicas of the crashed ship and place them in public locations, with special effects of them sparking and smoking. There will be someone in a space suit asking passersby for parts and materials to repair their ship.

These supplies will be available from aliens hanging around the area (perhaps with challenges to earn them). Collect all the necessary parts and return to the Astronaut to get a copy of the game, a poster or maybe a T-shirt.