I saw that a few days ago and loved the look immediately.
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Steam Greenlight: 1000 games and counting, more Greenlit every few weeks
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Yeah, I upvoted that.
Shadow Hog
Member
Oh, hey, this is the first time it's told me it's not in the Top 100. Guess they fixed that bug.
EDIT: ...actually, now nothing is showing that "Top 100" message. Well, I suppose that's fixing the bug, in a sense...
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I already pitched my idea.
Every month:
- Greenlight the Top 10
- Greenlight anything in the Top 50/100 that is already released
- Mandate the intended release date field to be filled out, anything not coming out in the next 12 months must go in concepts
- Do 5-10 "Editor's Choice" selections a month, and if Valve doesn't want to put the man-hours in, make it rotating between prominent independent developers and critics (writers from RPS, PCGamer, Terry Cavagnagh, Jonathan Blow, The World of Goo Kyles, Cromulent_Word, the Humble guys, etc.)
- Have an editorial veto in case something truly disasterous appears to fall under these categories.
- Give users rewards for voting on Greenlight; two possible methods. #1 Give a small amount of Steam credit for every 100 games voted on. #2 Do a wishlist raffle giveaway, everyone who votes on a Greenlight title gets one ticket, raffle every month, something like that.
- Figure out a way to grandfather in more existing independent developers. Perhaps the following: Once a Greenlit game is released, if it meets a specific sales threshold, exempt the developer from future Greenlight processes.
- Keep doing the thing that they did with the IGF finalists, and extend it to other relevant competitions.
Hellsing321
Member
Did you send an email to Gabe and Valve about it? Those seem like pretty great ideas.
Shadow Hog
Member
AFAIK, you can't. It looks like Valve was trying to implement a feature that would tell you if games you upvoted were on that level or not, but it was buggy and claimed damn near everything was top 100, so they've backed down on that (for now).
Some very good points there, the current model is broken and disastrous.
plagiarize
Banned
really good ideas. really really good. I espescially like where they outsource some editors choice selections should they not have the man power.
Wok
Member
In case you have not upvoted The Oil Blue yet, you can pay what you want to get the game and make up your mind.
Tell them you're a mod on NeoGAF. That'll get 'em to look at it!
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Wow, that looked cool. /votes for greenlight
From to the latest Ghostlight blog update:
"In other news, since we came back from Christmas lots of you have asked us for the latest news on bringing JRPGs to PC. Ive been told that we should have more news for you soon about a Steam Greenlight project. Thank you for all your interest in this so far. Its something weve been really excited about and I hope you will be too, as if this first game is a success then we will of course be looking at bringing more great Japanese games to PC."
"In other news, since we came back from Christmas lots of you have asked us for the latest news on bringing JRPGs to PC. Ive been told that we should have more news for you soon about a Steam Greenlight project. Thank you for all your interest in this so far. Its something weve been really excited about and I hope you will be too, as if this first game is a success then we will of course be looking at bringing more great Japanese games to PC."
Unless it's already a well-known game on console or something, yeah pretty much.
Nabs
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Wok
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If done right, it could be much more than a demo or even a game. People are actually working on surgery simulators. I am not kidding. What they do is augmented reality for surgeons.
Asylum, which was greenlit on Steam a couple weeks back, has launched a modest kickstarter to help them finish the game.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/asylum-kickstart-the-horror
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/asylum-kickstart-the-horror
Is that the second greenlit game to start a Kickstarter -after- being greenlit? I thought another game already did that, after being greenlit, and also failed said kickstarter.
LOL
Family Fry
Member
Yeah last game was DREAM which was one of the fist games Greenlight on Steam and again this has highlighted what is wrong with Steam Greenlight.
When done and dusted games sit in the side lines and watch fantastic looking concepts get greenlit that aren't even finished yet, you know something is wrong.
As much as I loved Scratches and really want to see Asylum out there and be playing it, $100,666 is quite a big ask for an adventure game like this.
We shall see though I may well be eating my words and I did whack $15 there way so I can't moan that much about it.
When done and dusted games sit in the side lines and watch fantastic looking concepts get greenlit that aren't even finished yet, you know something is wrong.
As much as I loved Scratches and really want to see Asylum out there and be playing it, $100,666 is quite a big ask for an adventure game like this.
We shall see though I may well be eating my words and I did whack $15 there way so I can't moan that much about it.
Family Fry
Member
New Update to Greenlight.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/765/announcements/detail/1299555815309540201
http://steamcommunity.com/games/765/announcements/detail/1299555815309540201
Wok
Member
Windward looks gorgeous, and I did enjoy trying the demo once.
But the game development has stopped, according to a blogpost.
But the game development has stopped, according to a blogpost.
What is Ghostlight anyway? I'm not seeing much of a general description on the blog itself.
They're an European publisher who focus mostly on bringing niche games to Europe (such as Persona 1/2, Trails in the Sky, Agarest or Fate/EXTRA).
I'm rather curious at to what they might be alluring to, though it's probably best not to have particularly high expectations.
Oh man, I don't think I like these new Greenlight stats page, hah. Now I'm depressed. 
Oil Blue:
Cook, Serve, Delicious:
Thought to be fair, Cook, Serve, Delicious was on there before people knew about it via Giantbomb, so they probably thought it was another diner dash clone.
So much for Steam. Ah well.
Oil Blue:
Cook, Serve, Delicious:
Thought to be fair, Cook, Serve, Delicious was on there before people knew about it via Giantbomb, so they probably thought it was another diner dash clone.
So much for Steam. Ah well.
Oh man, I don't think I like these new Greenlight stats page, hah. Now I'm depressed.
Oil Blue:
Cook, Serve, Delicious:
Thought to be fair, Cook, Serve, Delicious was on there before people knew about it via Giantbomb, so they probably thought it was another diner dash clone.
So much for Steam. Ah well.
This is why Greenlight is a broken system right now. 6 thousand people would have probably bought the game. Now, because 11k said "No", and that was before they introduced the "Ask me later" button, these kind of games will never be on Steam.
That's just messed up on so many levels.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Do "no" votes even do anything? Other than keep the game out of your voting queue?
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
Member
Yeah, if I don't intend to buy a Greenlight game I simply don't vote. Voting no is just fucked up and can potentially ruin things for others. People want to play these games, just because I don't doesn't mean they shouldn't be able too.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
The no votes didn't factor into the game going up I thought?
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
Member
If that's the case...
TouchMyBox
Member
They'd have to be very careful and put some restricting measures in place in order to reward greenlight voters and not have people just go on and click yes or no on every game without looking at them. A minimum time between votes could be imposed, but then people would just write bots to auto vote on a thousand different accounts.
Oh man, I don't think I like these new Greenlight stats page, hah. Now I'm depressed.
Oil Blue:
Cook, Serve, Delicious:
Thought to be fair, Cook, Serve, Delicious was on there before people knew about it via Giantbomb, so they probably thought it was another diner dash clone.
So much for Steam. Ah well.
Should I start an indiegogo campaign to help bankroll a Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back-style beatdown?
Oh man, I don't think I like these new Greenlight stats page, hah. Now I'm depressed.
Oil Blue:
Cook, Serve, Delicious:
Thought to be fair, Cook, Serve, Delicious was on there before people knew about it via Giantbomb, so they probably thought it was another diner dash clone.
So much for Steam. Ah well.
At least you now know why Valve said no to you 10 times.
Perhaps the rewards could come after you purchase the game you greenlit, showing your interest was genuine.
TouchMyBox
Member
Or an additional 5-10% off the game if you upvoted it on greenlight.
Wok
Member
You can try OIO if you buy the Indie Royale.
The next Green Light Bundle (www.thegreenlightbundle.com) will go live on February 1st. Nine games all from Steam greenlight of course
This bundle of games should go live today. It is a good way to try games.
Here's the whole stat screen if your curious
This part of the stats tells you it is very unlikely your game will be on Steam this century. Unless there is a change of trend of course.
Wait, why was that? Because Valve had an idea that only 6,000 people might want to buy the game? If it's a quality game, how does it hurt Valve to make 6,000 extra sales?
Are you saying that Valve suspected the popularity compared to other games was too low or am I missing your point?
I'm guessing that was the point, yeah, i.e. they could have some other more popular game in it's place.
But the thing is it's not like they're running out of shelf space, and I'm not familiar with other games on the Steam store in the same categories as say, The Oil Blue or the cooking game. Or pinball for that matter.
Plus Valve didn't have the hard vote data previously, so it would have to be based on their predictions. I guess I don't really feel it explains why they would reject a game, unless they're purely trying to avoid an iOS-esque app store situation of so many cheap games and applications. I really don't know.