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Steam Greenlight: 1000 games and counting, more Greenlit every few weeks
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Some neat things there (Knytt, Chelsea and the 7 devils)..
no Yawhg yet though
http://www.theyawhg.com/ it's really quite an interesting thing.
Also: rofl Shadow of the Eternals greenlit.
no Yawhg yet though
http://www.theyawhg.com/ it's really quite an interesting thing.Also: rofl Shadow of the Eternals greenlit.
Dr Stabbingworth
Member
Shantae and Mutant Mudds, among many other good titles.
I was wondering when they were going to announce some new games.
I was wondering when they were going to announce some new games.
God damn, thank you. Finally doing it right. Always hated how the small number of titles getting through and the snail's pace at which they updated almost made it feel like they were making an indie elite.
Recommendations: Delver, Dungeon Dashers, Flightless, Forge Quest, Megabyte Punch, Reprisal, Risk of Rain, Running with Rifles, and Underrail.
Recommendations: Delver, Dungeon Dashers, Flightless, Forge Quest, Megabyte Punch, Reprisal, Risk of Rain, Running with Rifles, and Underrail.
Hellsing321
Member
Holy shit! Pretty much everything I've been watching! MegaByte Punch! Gray Matter! Ecsapce Goat! Mutant Mudds!
SuperSonic1305
Member
About fucking time.
Emerson
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Congrats, thrilled CSD got through. Shame Oil Blue didn't.
Congrats, I'm really happy for you!
I'm really glad it's going to make Steam as it combines to of my favorite activities, games and cooking. My steam addiction (and backlog) were just too big to buy it from your on store (I almost caved in a couple of times, though), but I'm really happy it's finally coming to steam. I don't have the money right now with just having moved on my own and still missing a ton things, but I'll buy it as soon as possible.
Freaking finally. My interest in greenlight was waning, but now some deserved titles finally got in. Mutant Mudds should've been in ages ago.
Also, congrats chubigans for getting Cook, Serve, Delicious! in. I voted that one up awhile back, FINALLY they let ya in. Can't wait til its up.
Also, congrats chubigans for getting Cook, Serve, Delicious! in. I voted that one up awhile back, FINALLY they let ya in. Can't wait til its up.
100 games vs funding help.
Joe Molotov
Member
Time to rebuy Gray Matter.
Sentenza
Member
...Funding help?
Did I miss something?
indigo-cyclops
Member
Yes. same here!
People should also check out 1953 - KGB Unleashed, especially if you enjoy Myst/Scratches.
Holy crap. That's a lot of greenlit games to browse. It's way past time Escape Goat has gotten on there, among many others I'm sure.
Edit: Oh. Shadow of the Eternals got greenlit. That's awkward.
Edit: Oh. Shadow of the Eternals got greenlit. That's awkward.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It looks like GOG will offer an advance based on royalties:
I don't think they've said how much they are willing to front or what will happen if the game doesn't sell well (which has been a problem with indie games on GOG).
I am excited for CSD on Steam! I worked in restaurants for a good chunk of high school/college and CSD does a great job capturing the frenetic pacing of restaurant work.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
$10 game; 10,000 copies is a reasonable shot, that $100,000 in revenue, and they need to recoup the loan in what amounts to a dollar a copy, so I'd guess they'll front no more than $10,000 to devs.
Joe Molotov
Member
Maybe Valve has a plan to combat this as well. Remember when Dennis Dyack said they were pursuing "other sources of funding" for Shadow of the Eternals? Eh? EH?
Zero-Crescent
Member
Congratulations! CSD is one of my favorite games on Android. I've been following it for a long time, so it's good to finally see it get on Steam.
Big props to Bunny Must Die! (which was stuck in rank-90 purgatory for a long time), Megabyte Punch, and Escape Goat. Also good to see Mutant MUDDS and Shantae.
cartman414
Member
Positive as this is, curious how many top 100 games got shafted this month.
charlequin
Banned
I'm curious to see what the "normal" monthly pace is going to settle back to after this.
If a game is in the top 100 and didn't get picked, I would suspect there might be some pretty serious issues, behind the scenes or not.
What motivation does Valve have to deliberately skip games on the top 100 if they're going to do a big top 100 Greenlight run? Moneyhatted by tiny indie devs or something?
reptilescorpio
Member
Congrats dude! Looking forward to picking it up
I'd guess around 15-20 games/month. Sometimes more?
Seems like Steam just said, "Ah, what the hey?" and greenlit most games that were on the cusp instead of keeping most of them hanging in the balance.
Other games probably got shafted but maybe Steam will do another avalanche in a few months.
I guess they finally sorted out the issues with their approval and release systems to support a lot more releases. They have said that they have been working on making everything much more automated and simpler for the to release games onto Steam.
With those issues out of the way, they can afford to be far less selective.
Edit: I updated my collection of titles I think should still be greenlit (Greenlighted?) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=171041981 check it out if you want
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Good show, old chap!
I assume that at some point Valve will begin to be consistent with the matter of greenlit developers being able to leave Greenlight behind them, meaning they'll be free to release their games via the traditional channel.
Yeah, Escape Goat is the one that makes me happiest of this batch. About damn time.
SuicidalSteve
Member
Did deadly premonition make the list?
That was greenlit a few days after it went up.
ashecitism
Member
Deadly Premonition has been greenlit a while ago.
edit: beaten
edit: beaten
reptilescorpio
Member
No Ocean City Racing yet though
SuicidalSteve
Member
God I am slow!
BudokaiMR2
Member
In case no one has noticed, they are running a 1 year celebration sale for Greenlight right now!
La-Mulana is 66% off this time! Only $5.10!
La-Mulana is 66% off this time! Only $5.10!
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, I've been wondering about that. It really shouldn't be necessary to Greenlight two things given that theoretically the limitation is the process of actually setting up new vendor accounts.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I'll be a voice of dissent on this--I think Valve should actively require many Greenlit developers to submit again. Not all of them, not by a long shot. But there's also a ton of fucking garbage that has been and will be Greenlit. I think Valve should use re-submission as a mechanism by which to overrule, to a limited degree, the will of the masses.
Put it this way--should the Rogue Legacy devs have to resubmit? No. Why? Wildly popular (#1 on Steam), critically acclaimed. This is a dev that came from nowhere and brought the goods. I think even a cursory examination from Valve would indicate these are real people who are professionals, and they deserve to be a "full" partner going forward.
Should the Evoland devs have to resubmit? Well... it's got a decent number of recommendations, but it has no controller support, it got a 61 on Metacritic... so I guess my answer, having not played the game, is maybe?
Should some random survival zombie crafting f2p voxel block world mmo developer have to resubmit? Should a hidden object pub that submits 37 games on Greenlight and has one voted through because it has vampires? Should the German orange juice squeezing simulator company have to resubmit? I'm inclined to think yes. I'm inclined to think that rewarding people for putting out garbage that happens to ride a trend enough to fluke through the voting process is a bad thing.
It's clear to me that Valve doesn't have enough resources to be really engaged, active stewards and gatekeepers for Steam as a whole. The service is too big, there's too many games. And that's fine. But once the community serves that function through Greenlight, I think Valve does have enough resources to follow up on the games after release and get a sense of whether or not these people should get a bye or a bye-bye for their next submission. It wouldn't even be hard to get a objective metric; points for winning any award, points for high reviews, points for popularity while on sale, take a random batch of 200 recommendations and see the ratio of positive-negative-neutral and award points, manually investigate a dev's previous and subsequent games and take a look see...
LiquidSolid
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Working on some extra Steam content for Cook, Serve, Delicious! including one game changing option-
Man it feels great to have the reason to go back and add stuff like this. Anyways sorry for that, I'm just super excited for the Steam release.
Maybe this has been asked somewhere else but curious how fast they move through all these projects. What's the process like now that you've been greenlit? I assume they've given you all the details, so do you know how much work you're going to have to put in to get your game on Steam? Is there a waiting list even once you've done all that?
Nabs
Member
Working on some extra Steam content for Cook, Serve, Delicious! including one game changing option-
Man it feels great to have the reason to go back and add stuff like this. Anyways sorry for that, I'm just super excited for the Steam release.
Niiice. I can't wait to see it on Steam.
charlequin
Banned
I can see your point, but doesn't Greenlighting a greater volume of titles run pretty much exactly contrary to this?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Well, in the sense that greenlighting more titles is invariable going to lower the quality/notability bar, yes. But I don't have a problem making a distinction between developers who have earned a space on Steam and games that have earned a space on Steam and not having a 100% overlap between the two.
Well as far as work goes, it's really based on how much work I want to put in. I could just put the game up now, but I want to support achievements, playing cards, etc. The tools are very simple and nicely handled by their web tools and Game Maker Studio. Shouldn't take me more than a week total.
But I don't have total control over the release of the game; everything needs to be approved by Valve first (as far as if you're achievements are correctly inputted, do you have the right graphical assets for your webpage on Steam, etc.). I'm not really sure how fast that is at this point. Guess we'll see!
HadesGigas
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So even when green lighting 100 games, they left out presumably around a dozen or so games that were in the top 100:
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