Steam Greenlight: October 16th Batch
Steam Greenlight: October 29th Batch
Steam games are coming out so fast you can't count them all! I just know that Steam Winter Sales is going to be killer on my wallet this year. The support behind Steam Greenlight is extraordinary as some games that has just been recently posted already got greenlit. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that games such as Ikaruga got greenlit so quickly.
Source: Youtube Channel TREASURE Channel
I am surprised that Vanguard Princess got greenlit just as fast though as most people might not have heard of the game. I've known about the game for quite a while now and have played the Japanese version and thought it was a pretty fun game. With the English Version making a push to be put on Steam, I immediately upvoted it in hopes of supporting it when it releases.
Source: Youtube Channel Throneful
I'm also happy to see Eryi's Action FINALLY get greenlit after a year of waiting. I mentioned the game over a year ago in August.
Source: Youtube Channel NyuMedia
Although I mention a bunch of Japanese developed games, there are definitely a lot of non-Japanese indie games worth checking out such as Ravensword: Shadowlands.
Source: Youtube Channel josh presseisen
Steam always has great sales for the games on their platform, so money isn't so much an issue right now. Finding the time to play all these great games is what's really difficult to manage.
Source:
-Kotaku - 130+ Games In Two Weeks? Time to Slow Down, Steam
Showing posts with label Greenlight. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
NewNews - Treasure puts up Ikaruga on Steam
Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=183195387
Source: Youtube Channel TREASURE Channel
I might have mentioned this before, as I tell the story often, but one of my biggest regrets in gaming was not picking up Ikaruga when I saw it for $20 new for the Nintendo Gamecube at a wholesale store. I would have not guessed that a shoot-em-up would become so rare on the Gamecube and so sought out. I searched for years after that for a used copy and never found one. A few years back, I was with a friend at a Gamestop and he grabbed a game and looked and me saying "look what I found". I was excited and ready to buy it right then and there, and then he said he was going to buy it...But of course he invited me over to play with him as it supports 2-player cooperative play. Still, I never got to go through the whole game and I'm not close by my friend's place no more. So it was only natural that I was very happy and excited to see Ikaruga show up on Steam Greenlight front page.
If you've never heard of the game and wondering why so many people are getting excited over it, it's one of the most finely crafted and challenging vertical shoot-em-ups that featured a polarity system where players were encouraged to run into bullets of the affinity they are switched to. It also didn't have that many prints go out for consoles which is why it became so rare. From what it says on the Steam Greenlight page, the steam version of Ikaruga will be an updated version of the Xbox Live Arcade version which was already updated from previous versions. Besides its simple but innovative polarity game mechanic and its challenging nature, the game was often praised for its beautiful visuals as well. The Steam version will have vertical screen mode (Do you have a wide-screen monitor that can be switched sideways? It's perfect for shoot-em-ups!), 2-player cooperative mode, Xbox 360 controller compatibility (WHY? I'm okay if it's that AND other controllers, but it's ALWAYS only Xbox 360 controller!), and Double Play mode for the most extreme shoot-em-up players where you play two ships on one controller (yes, at the same time). Besides possibly only being compatible with a Xbox 360 controller, I'm pretty excited about getting Ikaruga on Steam.
Source: Youtube Channel TREASURE Channel
I might have mentioned this before, as I tell the story often, but one of my biggest regrets in gaming was not picking up Ikaruga when I saw it for $20 new for the Nintendo Gamecube at a wholesale store. I would have not guessed that a shoot-em-up would become so rare on the Gamecube and so sought out. I searched for years after that for a used copy and never found one. A few years back, I was with a friend at a Gamestop and he grabbed a game and looked and me saying "look what I found". I was excited and ready to buy it right then and there, and then he said he was going to buy it...But of course he invited me over to play with him as it supports 2-player cooperative play. Still, I never got to go through the whole game and I'm not close by my friend's place no more. So it was only natural that I was very happy and excited to see Ikaruga show up on Steam Greenlight front page.
If you've never heard of the game and wondering why so many people are getting excited over it, it's one of the most finely crafted and challenging vertical shoot-em-ups that featured a polarity system where players were encouraged to run into bullets of the affinity they are switched to. It also didn't have that many prints go out for consoles which is why it became so rare. From what it says on the Steam Greenlight page, the steam version of Ikaruga will be an updated version of the Xbox Live Arcade version which was already updated from previous versions. Besides its simple but innovative polarity game mechanic and its challenging nature, the game was often praised for its beautiful visuals as well. The Steam version will have vertical screen mode (Do you have a wide-screen monitor that can be switched sideways? It's perfect for shoot-em-ups!), 2-player cooperative mode, Xbox 360 controller compatibility (WHY? I'm okay if it's that AND other controllers, but it's ALWAYS only Xbox 360 controller!), and Double Play mode for the most extreme shoot-em-up players where you play two ships on one controller (yes, at the same time). Besides possibly only being compatible with a Xbox 360 controller, I'm pretty excited about getting Ikaruga on Steam.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
NewNews - Ghosts 'n Goblins Online is Back!
Steam Greenlight: Ghosts 'n Goblins Online
Source: Youtube Channel 씨드나인 게임즈
Ghosts 'n Goblins Online has been around for a while and has been talked about in the game community and then it was canceled. Apparently it's been canceled twice already. Well it's back again with a chance to release stateside through the help of Steam Greenlight. With news of this, every major media is spreading the word and hopefully getting people to upvote it on Steam Greenlight. The main concern for a lot of GnG fans is that the game looks too easy. Looking at the gameplay, I'd say that it's because it's a completely different gameplay mechanic from what most people know about the GnG series. The game is still a 2D Action-Platformer, but rather than a straight up Action game where you move forward, die in two hits, and have limited amounts of way to attack, there are a lot of RPG elements such as an open world to explore, stats to improve, lots of skills to attain, etc. You could say that it's Maple Story in a GnG universe. There seems to be different classes with an array of skills to learn, the ability to play cooperatively with other players, raise stats and attributes to improve survivability, damage, and ability power, and play in competitive PvP arenas. There seems to be a mode called "demonic dimension" where you die in two hits (classic GnG style life system: Armor->Underwear->Dead). There's a trailer showing some of the gameplay:
Source: Youtube Channel 씨드나인 게임즈
With this, yes the game will be easier to accommodate an online gaming experience as well as a more general audience. Still the game looks to be very interesting and is one I'm willing to play. A lot of people are also hoping that the attention and success of this game might bring about the resurrection of Megaman Online and bringing it over here. I'd be very happy about that.
Source:
-Joystiq - Ghosts'n Goblins Online resurfaces at Steam Greenlight
Source: Youtube Channel 씨드나인 게임즈
Ghosts 'n Goblins Online has been around for a while and has been talked about in the game community and then it was canceled. Apparently it's been canceled twice already. Well it's back again with a chance to release stateside through the help of Steam Greenlight. With news of this, every major media is spreading the word and hopefully getting people to upvote it on Steam Greenlight. The main concern for a lot of GnG fans is that the game looks too easy. Looking at the gameplay, I'd say that it's because it's a completely different gameplay mechanic from what most people know about the GnG series. The game is still a 2D Action-Platformer, but rather than a straight up Action game where you move forward, die in two hits, and have limited amounts of way to attack, there are a lot of RPG elements such as an open world to explore, stats to improve, lots of skills to attain, etc. You could say that it's Maple Story in a GnG universe. There seems to be different classes with an array of skills to learn, the ability to play cooperatively with other players, raise stats and attributes to improve survivability, damage, and ability power, and play in competitive PvP arenas. There seems to be a mode called "demonic dimension" where you die in two hits (classic GnG style life system: Armor->Underwear->Dead). There's a trailer showing some of the gameplay:
Source: Youtube Channel 씨드나인 게임즈
With this, yes the game will be easier to accommodate an online gaming experience as well as a more general audience. Still the game looks to be very interesting and is one I'm willing to play. A lot of people are also hoping that the attention and success of this game might bring about the resurrection of Megaman Online and bringing it over here. I'd be very happy about that.
Source:
-Joystiq - Ghosts'n Goblins Online resurfaces at Steam Greenlight
Thursday, August 29, 2013
NewNews - Steam Greenlight Games Everywhere!
Steam: 100 Greenlit Games
Steam: Greenlight Game Sale
Valve Greenlit 100 games yesterday and has released a sale of over 50+ games of previously greenlit games to celebrate its first year since Steam Greenlight launched. The idea of anyone being able to submit a game entry and having the community vote which game was going to be put up on the Steam client sounded like a bad move for Valve, and it was when it first started. But conditions were made, factors were accounted for, and now Steam Greenlight has allowed a much faster and efficient way for games to get put up for sale. Small batches have always been let out of which games would get put up on Steam and get equal exposure, but Valve is experimenting a little and letting through 100 games this time. And with a successful year of the community getting 260 titles Greenlit, Valve is offering 50+ games for 10%-75% off on those previously greenlit. A lot of those games on sale came out recently too! This is nice and sad at the same time. It's awesome so many games are being put up on Steam, but how the heck are we supposed to keep up with so many games?
Steam: Greenlight Game Sale
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
NewNews - Steam Greenlight Submission Fee
Official Page: http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/
Source: Youtube Channel SecretsOfGrindea
One of the submissions to Steam Greenlight
Steam had launched its "Greenlight" department of their platform last week which allows the community within steam to vote and view upcoming indie games and help certain ones reach the platform first. I already didn't like the idea from the first I heard of it as I knew the showcasing of the games would be convoluted. Valve already tries their best to push out new indie games to give it a chance in the market among the millions of other indie games out there, and even then many games get over looked. With Greenlight, some indie games will have a much harder time getting onto the platform than they would have before. What's more, when Greenlight launched, a lot of "concepts", games not even in alpha phase, joke submissions, and flash games that have been out for years (possibly submissions by other people other than the original creator).
To stop these shenanigans, Valve has issued a requirement of $100 for each submission which will be donated to Child's Play in order to cut down on the trolls and junk submissions to ensure those serious about placing their game on the platform will be seen. Still, there might be a lot of submissions and not all of them are going to be great. At least there will be less random submissions and Greenlight will be less abused.
Source:
-Joystiq: Steam Greenlight now requires $100 fee, which goes to Child's Play
Source: Youtube Channel SecretsOfGrindea
One of the submissions to Steam Greenlight
Steam had launched its "Greenlight" department of their platform last week which allows the community within steam to vote and view upcoming indie games and help certain ones reach the platform first. I already didn't like the idea from the first I heard of it as I knew the showcasing of the games would be convoluted. Valve already tries their best to push out new indie games to give it a chance in the market among the millions of other indie games out there, and even then many games get over looked. With Greenlight, some indie games will have a much harder time getting onto the platform than they would have before. What's more, when Greenlight launched, a lot of "concepts", games not even in alpha phase, joke submissions, and flash games that have been out for years (possibly submissions by other people other than the original creator).
To stop these shenanigans, Valve has issued a requirement of $100 for each submission which will be donated to Child's Play in order to cut down on the trolls and junk submissions to ensure those serious about placing their game on the platform will be seen. Still, there might be a lot of submissions and not all of them are going to be great. At least there will be less random submissions and Greenlight will be less abused.
Source:
-Joystiq: Steam Greenlight now requires $100 fee, which goes to Child's Play
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