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STEAM | April 2014 - Insert witty title here.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/235660/ Valve had a change of heart (initially, Snowbird was told that the game couldn't be distributed on Steam outside of being a pre-order incentive).
Uuuh, focus in the sense of which window is currently active.
Basically, every now and then:
with Chrome the border turns grey and if I'm writing something it stops "listening" to my keyboard for like a fraction of second, then goes back normal (by itself), aka the window regain focus;
with full screen games (noticed in Monaco and OFDP) every now and then I simply go back to the desktop, and to go back to the game I need to click on the icon in the Win bar.
Not in my experience. I always increase my inventory capacity by 100 units whenever I hit the cap, haha.
Edit: But this may have changed since I last earned an achievement.
Rickenslacker
Banned
It does for the remainder of the session I believe. So you can use the commands, save, restart the game, and be fine.
Can I suggest adding both DROD: The Second Sky and DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder to that list? They might look amateurish, but DROD games are bar none the best puzzle games available on PC. with first three entries being good enough for GOG
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Prison Architect looks like fun. I don't support Early Access games, though. Too bad it's not finished. I also think it's shameful to have a sale on an alpha build.
The CBLDF has done some really good things, I think it's a little unfair to downplay it so much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Legal_Defense_Fund
e: I can understand the argument that it's not a charity, but they've helped a lot of people get legal support they wouldn't have had otherwise.
AbundantChoice
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Prison Architect looks like fun. I don't support Early Access games, though. Too bad it's not finished. I also think it's shameful to have a sale on an alpha build.
In Prison Architect's defense. their "Early Access" build is more polished and full of content than 90% of actual games released these days.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
8BitBoy's jump sound is so similar to Mario's that it hurts. Still will buy
Also, Arcadecraft looks kind of cool. Should have been called Arcade Tycoon, though.
O'Cells is the SimAnt game I've needed for a long time.
Ascendant, Flashout 2, Grapple Knight, Grave, KartSim, Momodora, Retro World, Space Corp Tycoon, The Terminal, and XenoRaptor all look kinda interesting. The rest aren't really that appealing to me.
Sky Nations is literally Minecraft.
when it's bundled.
Also, Arcadecraft looks kind of cool. Should have been called Arcade Tycoon, though.
O'Cells is the SimAnt game I've needed for a long time.
Ascendant, Flashout 2, Grapple Knight, Grave, KartSim, Momodora, Retro World, Space Corp Tycoon, The Terminal, and XenoRaptor all look kinda interesting. The rest aren't really that appealing to me.
Sky Nations is literally Minecraft.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I bet. It looks great. That's why I'm hurting to avoid it. Maybe if I can get it for really cheap somewhere.
Uuuh, focus in the sense of which window is currently active.
Basically, every now and then:
with Chrome the border turns grey and if I'm writing something it stops "listening" to my keyboard for like a fraction of second, then goes back normal (by itself), aka the window regain focus;
with full screen games (noticed in Monaco and OFDP) every now and then I simply go back to the desktop, and to go back to the game I need to click on the icon in the Win bar.
Ah, it's switching to inactive windows. I guess I haven't heard it called focus in such a long time I blanked on that meaning.
Usually it's one of two things in my experience;
Wifeless mouse and/or keyboard are losing connection and then attempting to reconnect which causes their software to try and start up, taking away control for a second.
Usually an anti-virus or an upgrader program (especially awful HP bloatware). Next time it happens try looking through your processes in Task Manager and see if anything is currently running that doesn't need to be or is simply an updater that you don't really need like Apple's updater since you can just do that in iTunes/Quicktime instead.
As for a log in that regard, I have no idea where to find such a thing that tracks the history of active to inactive, but I'm sure it exists. Good luck finding it and solving your problem.
I've put in way more time into Prison Architect than many full releases. Its fantastic.
Shameful to have a sale ... but you'll pick it up cheap somewhere?
Confused and not even drunk :<
Woo! I'm happy RetroWorld was Greenlit. Still bummed that this guy couldn't raise funding on Kickstarter while some projects that are complete crap get people pledging money hand over fist, so I'm glad he's continuing with it in spite of that. It's probably the closest we'll get to seeing Retro Game Challenge on the PC, but it actually looks more substantial than RGC from what I've seen so far. Really looking forward to this.
MMBosstones86
Member
Looks for a Russian trader....super cheap over there.
corrosivefrost
Member
Groupees Spotlight: Evopollution has steam keys now on your profile page.
Where would one find a good Russian trader?
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Shameful to have a sale while it's in Alpha stage. I'll wait until it's gold before grabbing it, sale or not. Sucks because the game looks interesting!
Well SteamGAF, meet the newly-released Early Access title called Caribbean!. If it looks familiar, that's because it's obviously based upon Mount&Blade. Right now, it looks to be nothing more than a rather ambitious mod of some kind.
(Any comparison between the title "Caribbean!" and Firaxis' "Sid Meier's Pirates!" is purely concidental, I'm sure.)
It purports to be an open world/sandbox Pirate-venture "that blends the most engaging melee and firearms combat with naval battles, detailed crew management and the deep atmosphere of the pirate era." (from the Store page).
I'd suggest tempering any expectations you may have right now, because the developer of Caribbean! previously made Eador: Master of the Broken World, a flawed remake/update of their previous game, Eador: Genesis (not on Steam).
Mount & Blade with a pirate theme sounds like it could be the greatest thing ever. But Eador isn't exactly a similar genre.
SteveWinwood
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Prison Architect looks like fun. I don't support Early Access games, though. Too bad it's not finished. I also think it's shameful to have a sale on an alpha build.
you dont buy games because of a pretty arbitrary definition of it put on it by the developers?
it has more to it then hundreds of games on steam that are "complete"
but yeah you show them!
Ah ok, yeah I get where you are coming from. Actually bought the game during Alpha 1 :s
But stopped playing around Alpha 4 so not to spoil the game further.
dark_inferno
Member
Thanks for posting it. Would have missed it otherwise.
I love Retro Game Challenge and Retro World looks like a deeper version of it.
Repost, because I have 10-20 keys (depending on the demand) to give away. Same rules as always. State your interest for the key in the game thread (listed below), since I wont check the Steam thread constantly and please, please write some impressions in the coming 3-4 days over in that game thread for others to read some more opinions that dont only come from myself. Feel free to post in the Steam thread as well if you like the game. Its hard getting people interested in these small games, so you can help out a dev by just posting a few lines of impressions! No hidden further costs Description follows:
The game is currently not on Steam, but since some people here liked my recommendations, I'll just throw my recommendation and Paywhatyouwant offer in here as well:
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=809833
My initial impressions:
And an amateurish YT video I made of the gameplay with some control explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBhqVvF-O6E
Description follows:The game is currently not on Steam, but since some people here liked my recommendations, I'll just throw my recommendation and Paywhatyouwant offer in here as well:
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=809833
My initial impressions:
And an amateurish YT video I made of the gameplay with some control explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBhqVvF-O6E
Prison Architect looks like fun. I don't support Early Access games, though. Too bad it's not finished. I also think it's shameful to have a sale on an alpha build.
This reminds me, I need to finally play my copy. Got it last sale. (Or the one before that? I don't remember)
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
If it's so "complete" and not an "arbitrary" definition, explain the spreadsheet of bugs out there. Or are we having a contest of which game is the buggiest? But hey, that's cool. Go ahead and herald in an era where we don't just preorder games, we pay for alpha games. Yeeeeaaaah Season Pass DLC and always online! Whoo!
Also true. I don't want to get burned out on a game before it's even done.
Would it have been better if they'd arbitrarily declared it feature-complete now (since it's apparently more than worthy of a full release), even though they have more ambitious plans for it, and then implement more stuff "post-release"? I'm not seeing the practical difference between those two scenarios. Why are you so hung up on the use of the word "alpha" here?
Hate to say this, but that's pretty much become the new standard for a lot of folks. And compared to some games that literally require a day 1 patch just to be playable (which is sadly more common than it should be), this particular "alpha" seems to be in pretty good shape.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Yes.
Because that's what it's being sold as. I guarantee if I post about how buggy the game is, complain about crashing, etc., some chucklehead will tell to fuck off because it's in alpha.
SteveWinwood
Member
I can say fairly confidently it's more bug free than most ubisoft games.
You're also paying for an alpha there, but that's okay because they didn't declare it one!
Are you just decrying the moniker "alpha" in this case? You acknowledge that the game looks as it is, and worth buying at that price. I am failing to sympathize with your principle here.
Also there's nothing "shameful" about buying or selling early access. Both parties are transacting willingly, with full knowledge of what's on offer and the risks involved.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Are you keeping track of my purchases or are you just assuming I buy buggy games?
Oh, so now there are risks and assumptions of risk. Now both parties are grown adults consenting to alpha. Yet somehow my dismissal of buying alpha games is me being a pedant. OK. Reactions to buying a game sold as "final" and a game sold as "alpha" will be different. And rightfully so. The fact that you're telling me "alpha" doesn't matter is a joke.
Yup, I though to check the task manager but outside Win system processes, I just have AVG, Chrome and Steam processes that shouldn't be the culprit.
At first I thought something went wrong in some Chrome update, but then, as it happens in games too, I guess it's something else.
SteveWinwood
Member
have you bought a game in the last like 3 years?
patches have changed a lot when it comes to initial qa
Coming from nowhere, Memento Mori 2 is coming
http://store.steampowered.com/app/237970/?snr=1_4_4__105_2
http://store.steampowered.com/app/237970/?snr=1_4_4__105_2
clockworkinyou
Banned
I'm the same as you man. I hate this early access stuff; makes me want finished games more.
Seems like there are hundreds of EA games on steam now.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Alright, again, you're assuming I buy buggy games on day one. Are you keeping track of my purchases? Just call it quits now with all the assumptions. You are willing to give up your consumer rights by not only patronizing Early Access, not only defending the practice, but attacking someone who doesn't want to participate in it. Don't decry me for voting with my wallet.
You can buy me the game, though.
It's a shame. I disagree with how things have progressed. So sure, maybe my purchase or boycott of Early Access won't mean anything. But I don't want to participate in something anti-consumer. I don't care if I miss out. I have more games than time.
Sweet! Takes a little bit of the sting away from XSEED abandoning the Retro Game Challenge series. I was really looking forward to Retro Game Challenge 2
Ingueferroque
Banned
Repost, because I have 10-20 keys (depending on the demand) to give away. Same rules as always. State your interest for the key in the game thread (listed below), since I wont check the Steam thread constantly and please, please write some impressions in the coming 3-4 days over in that game for others to readsome more opinions that dont only come from myself. Feel free to post in the Steam thread as well if you like the game. Its hard getting people interested in these small games, so you can help out a dev by just posting a few lines of impressions! No hidden further costs
The game is currently not on Steam, but since some people here liked my recommendations, I'll just throw my recommendation and Paywhatyouwant offer in here as well:
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=809833
My initial impressions:
And an amateurish YT video I made of the gameplay with some control explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBhqVvF-O6E
This looks awesome.
Prison Architect looks like fun. I don't support Early Access games, though. Too bad it's not finished. I also think it's shameful to have a sale on an alpha build.
Why don't you support Early Access games? It's essentially a Kickstarter with far more tangible material.
Support the games you want to see developed, support those who will find success. Prison Architect is a perfect example as it probably wouldn't be developed if not for these type of initiatives.
I've loosely followed development and they have made massive process since they initially started on Early Access.
Darkroronoa
Member
Should i play videogames or organize my steam library in categories?
Dog Problems
Banned
Early Access is probably my favorite thing to happen to Steam in recent years. I love seeing how games progress from an early stage to completion. Although, as has been said, I don't play them too much because I don't want to get burnt out by the time the game is "officially" done. Exceptions being Nuclear Throne and Spacebase DF-9.
To me it seems that he's disagreeing with you calling it shameful, not with you not participating. It is clearly marked as Alpha, people know that usually equates to 'buggier' so I don't see what is shameful about it at all. The market will decide if people like this and are willing to participate or not, regardless of your personal preference.
This shit is just getting started though so I think you aren't going to like the future much.
edit: I happen to know for a fact that almost all retail games ship with very large spreadsheets of known bugs. Like thousands of them.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
Organization is key to finding games to play, so organize instead.
SteveWinwood
Member
Unless you obsessively check bug forums for every game before a purchase or just straight up don't buy games, I can confidently say you've bought a game buggier than Prison Architect.
But you bought that game.
And you won't buy Prison Architect, regardless of your interest in it, solely because they were upfront with you about where they are in development, and you've some how misconstrued that as a negative.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Thanks guys. That doesn't sound bad. And yeah lol my friend gives himself max carry weight capacity as well.
Hmm, I should probably look into that. Although I figured it would be easier to just use the console.
When you buy a game that isn't labeled as a beta, the assumption is that it'll be a complete and fully playable experience. Using "welp everyone else does it lol" as an argument is, honestly, pretty stupid. That's not an argument for anything ever.
So most of us have made a few mistaken purchases, so what? Are we somehow obligated to keep making the same mistake just because it's a common one?
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