Steam Greenlight

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for the people who don’t know what this is:

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Steam Greenlight, announced in July 2012 and released the following month, is a way for Steam users to help choose which games are added to the service. Developers are able to submit information about their games, as well as early builds or beta versions, for consideration by users. Users can pledge support for these games and Valve will help to make top-pledged games available on the Steam service. In response to complaints during its first week that finding games to support was made difficult by a flood of inappropriate or false submissions, Valve required developers to pay US$100 to list a game on the service to reduce illegitimate submissions. The fee will be donated to the charity Child’s Play. A later modification allowed developers to put conceptual ideas on the Greenlight service to garner interest in potential projects free-of-charge; votes from such projects are only visible to the developer. Valve also allowed non-gaming software to be voted onto the service through Greenlight. The first game to be released via Steam Greenlight was McPixel. The initial process offered by Steam Greenlight was panned because while developers favored the concept, the rate of games that are eventually approved by Valve is very small. Valve has acknowledged that this is a problem and believes it can improve upon it; Valve’s Tom Bui said, “we aren’t where we want to be yet”. In January 2013, Newell stated that Valve recognized that its role in Greenlight has been perceived as a bottleneck, something it plans to eliminate in the future through an open marketplace infrastructure. On the eve of Greenlight’s first anniversary, Valve simultaneously approved 100 titles through the Greenlight process to demonstrate this change of direction. Valve stated in January 2014 that it plans to phase out the Greenlight process in favor of providing developers with easier means to put their games onto the Steam service. Steam’s Early Access program was launched in March 2013. This program allows developers to release functional but yet-incomplete products such as beta versions to the service to allow users to buy the titles and help provide testing and feedback towards the final production. Early access also helps to provide funding to the developers to help complete their titles.

So just post links of greenlight titles that you think deserves some attention or should be voted onto Steam.

HERE'S THE LIST.
Here's some of my suggestions.

Five nights at Freddy’s

Of Guards and Thieves (Beta on Kongregate)

Soda Drinker PRO

Let’s go Camping!

Post yours below :slight_smile:

FUCK Steam greenlight and its ability to get massive piles of shit out there. See: Yogventures (aka, the game that never was)

I agree, there really is a saturation of greenlit games. I hope the system changes soon!

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Jesus, they started making furry art of 5NAF…