Valve Announces Steam Greenlight: Steam Workshop for Indie Games to be sold on Steam
- Thread starter balladofwindfishes
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!Let me rephrase the question better - will this be the only way to get games on Steam now even if I'm submitting an "indie" game? Can I still submit through whatever regular means they use now?
PaineReign
Neo Member
Awesome, awesome awesome.
Agreed. The question I have: would The Binding of Issac have made it through this process? (I don't personally find it offensive, but people who don't understand the implications of the original Binding of Issac story probably take it on face value as offensive)
Agreed. The question I have: would The Binding of Issac have made it through this process? (I don't personally find it offensive, but people who don't understand the implications of the original Binding of Issac story probably take it on face value as offensive)
They're still lacking vending machine support, dry cleaning, current-gen emulation and "take your dog out" option.
But yeah, when we're talking about PC gaming, there's not much left for them (that they haven't announced yet - I'm looking at you, Couch Mode).
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Whoa
Delusibeta
Banned
I'd still say "no".
balladofwindfishes
Member
I wonder if they'll add a way to hook up a TF2 item to a game submission for easy TF2 Promo item implementation.
jim-jam bongs
Member
will wait for the origin equivalent
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Interfectum
Member
Sounds like the numbers needed will be relative to the genre / type of game.
1 vote = 1 $
Palette Swap
Member
Potential game changer. Not just for Steam/PC gaming but for everyone else.
Well Origin did do something nice for indies by waiving its fees for a limited time, right?
And it should be common sense: would they really be insane enough to demand Modern Warfare 3 go through community voting before being put up?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It depends on the licensing agreement in the software from a legal standpoint (basically RPGMaker has to be cool with it) and probably if it can be compiled into a standalone executable from Valve's standpoint.
EDIT: The RPG maker website says yes to both of those questions, so it all depends on how Valve feels
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Twice the slap in the face for Indie devs who still don't make it on Steam!
Yes. The Facebook version of Steam's staid MySpace should be quite something.
Wok
Member
I will put a list of already released (at least an alpha version) commercial indie games which are worth it, yet not on Steam.
- English Country Tune, by increpare
- Escape Goat, by MagicalTimeBean
- Explodemon!, by Curve Studios
- Gateways, by David Johnston
- Grappling Hook, by Christian Teister
- Ichi, by Jay van Hutten
- OIO : The Game, by Uncanny Games
- Owlboy, by D-Pad Studio
- The Oil Blue, by chubigans
- To the Moon, by Freebird Games
- Voxatron, by Lexaloffle
It's almost like their procrastination on HL3 is fueling all these amazing pet projects.
I would assume that Valve is probably going to limit any TF2 item promos to games that are already accepted.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I lol'd. Why the hell would this ever happen?
cooljeanius
Member
By the way, did The Oil Blue ever get approved? If not, do you think you'll try to get it in this way?
tanooki141
Member
Wow, this sounds great and very forward thinking.
entries to the Origin store must have at least 4 DLC packs on day of release.
Which is good, but in a lot of ways it's still a popularity contest.
Because the digital space on consoles is awful right now from a consumer standpoint and based on what devs have said their standpoint as well. I don't think we'll ever see Steam itself on a console, but they should be doing a lot of things Valve already does.
Delusibeta
Banned
Anti-competition lawsuits.
Brother Sport
Member
Great News. Valve often feels like a force of good in an otherwise pretty shameless business. I'm thinking about getting rid of my consoles, buying a PC and just go full steam ahead one day.
Dehumanizer
Member
Gabe, I love you so much
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Is "vote for my crappy game and get a free copy of my crappy game!" really a concern?
Does it even matter that Bad Rats exists on the store, when nobody sane is buying it?
Don't be daft. This is here to end the problem of certain indie games, for some strange and arbitrary reason, not winding up on Steam. It happens, and it's really strange. Some really good-looking games have unfortunately not been released on the service, and this is set to end that by providing an automated function for the community to vote in games. I imagine it's to compliment the vetting process already there.
I haven't looked at how it works exactly, but it should be reputation-based to a degree. Example: You have a good reputation for voting for mostly good/excellent games, therefore your vote is worth more as you obviously have good taste and are well-read on these kinds of things.
It'd be used to pre-emptively end what is bound to be a practice of shitty developers getting people/bots to spam the list. If this is abused, Steam could be flooded with lots of Bad Rats-level shite.
if this system works then you wont find crappy games because they wont get trough the voting process.
Fare Godmace
Member
We are not worthy, Gaben :bow
Indie dev GAF, I'll vote your game for a TF2 key.
Indie dev GAF, I'll vote your game for a TF2 key.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Good initiative by Valve. But I gotta say that GOG.com has had this for ages.
Also, inb4 Blizzard games and HL3 being at the top.
Also, inb4 Blizzard games and HL3 being at the top.
It got rejected 3 times, so...I doubt it, but it'll be fun to try anyways.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Just got the PR: