Steam Greenlight discussion

[ríomhaire]

Anyone been looking through Steam Greenlight? There's been a lot of trash going up but that should subside a bit now; Valve have put in a $100 listing fee. The fee allows you to put up as many games as you like from then on and Valve donates the fees to Child's Play. Here are my top three so far:

1. Routine. It's a first person survival horror, apparently, that takes place on a Moon base but there's not much detail. Love the look of it though and it may even turn out to be good!
2. Contrast. 2D/3D puzzle platformer. You have the ability to jump into walls and become a shadow and jump around on other shadows. Move light sources and objects around in the 3D environments to change the 2D shadows and then move around in that. Movement and animation looks a bit rough but I love the concept and the setting is pretty cool.
3. Miner Wars 2081. Despite the meh name this looks like it could be good. Looks like a modern Descent with multiplayer and co-op. That's pretty all it needs for me to be interested in it.

Also bonus ridiculous game: Battle for Presidency

What else is everyone looking at?

 

[Edeslash]

Routine and Contrast are the only games I voted for without a friend saying 'vote this now'. They look absolutely gorgeous.

 

[Barnz]

I voted for Postal 2 and Octodad.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Greenlight is kinda a joke right now. The $100 entry fee is welcomed, it'll tone down on the amount of shit posted on there.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93798724&searchtext=

Still, though.
Really? I don't know what goes through people's heads to pay $100 to post this kinda stuff.
This wouldn't even be very popular on Kongregate.

 

[ríomhaire]

Really? I don't know what goes through people's heads to pay $100 to post this kinda stuff.

It was posted on Monday, before the listing fee was put in place.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Woops, disregard. I'm silly.

 

[ríomhaire]

http://www.shrewdlogarithm.com/greenlight.htm
Someone made a site that checks the % votes given for each game. Top 10 are:

1. Black Mesa - 41%
2. Slender: Source - 33%
3. Project Zomboid - 31%
4. No More Room in Hell - 28%
5. Routine - 22%
6. Towns - 17%
7. Dream - 16%
8. Heroes & Generals - 16%
9. Cry of Fear - 14%
10. McPixel - 13%

40 games have over 5%. I wonder how long it'll take any game to reach 100%? Valve will probably decrease the required number of votes once the number of people using Greenlight has settled down a bit.

I find it different that McPixel was the second game to be added and it's just about managed the top ten. Pretty good. The first game was Organ Trail: Director's Cut.

 

[dfc05]

I voted for Contrast. I'd be most likely to buy that game, out of what I up-voted. Voted for Dream as well, because I'm interested in more Dear Esther-style games, although it kind of irks me that the music used in the trailer is virtually identical to Dear Esther's.

I also voted for Organ Trail, because lol. I'd be willing to pay a few bucks for it.

Does anyone know whether down-voting gives negative points, or just zero? There are a bunch of games that I'm personally not interested in, but can understand why other folks would want them. Would be nice to dismiss from my queue without negative-voting.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Downvoting just removes a game from your queue.

 

[Vegeta897]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95405750

Please upvote this game. The gang and I (you know, the cool people) have been playing a few hours of it, and for something so early in development and incredibly simple, it's absolutely a blast to play with friends. It has SO much potential to be even more, too. The engine is really interesting, with good car physics and simulated bullets and all that. Gunfights are surprisingly exciting, and car chases/crashes are hilarious fun. The metagame is also really fun, especially when things go wrong.