Game News Deathfire, Stasis and More Greenlit on Steam

[Infinitron]

Tags: Bloom; Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore; Driftmoon; G3 Studios; Instant Kingdom; Paper Sorcerer; STASIS; Studio Fawn; The Brotherhood; UltraRunawayGames

Valve greenlit another 100 games for release on Steam today, among them several titles of interest to the Codex:

• Studio Fawn's Bloom: Memories, which is currently in the final week of its third (and finally, successful) Kickstarter campaign.
• G3 Studios' Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore, also in its final days on Kickstarter, although this one's not looking so good.
• Instant Kingdom's Driftmoon, a light-hearted "adventure-RPG" which was released earlier this year (check out our review).
• UltraRunawayGames' Paper Sorcerer, a recently released dungeon crawler inspired by Wizardry 4, that was successfully funded on Kickstarter last year.
• And last but definitely not least, The Brotherhood's Stasis, which is also in the final days of a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Congratulations to all the teams involved.

 

[Pyke]

Woo!

 

[Dorateen]

Only one traditional fantasy party-based RPG among the lot, and only one not funded through kickstarter. Time to start knocking on those publisher doors, Henkel, or else go indie.

 

[Excidium]

More games to buy at 75~80% discount :metro:

 

[Severian Silk]

Guido needs Jesse Cox, Dodge and Roguey to make a video for him.

(OK, one of those names was kind of random.)

 

[Roguey]

Steam Greenlighters truly are some of the dumbest people on the planet. There is no "PC master race" and yes I'm aware Yahtzee coined that term ironically.

 

[Crane]

Stasis looks pretty interesting. DL'ing the alpha demo now.

 

[MicoSelva]

Is there any point to Steam Greenlight anymore. They're just approving everything in larger and larger batches.

 

[Haba]

Is there any point to Steam Greenlight anymore. They're just approving everything in larger and larger batches.

Not really, no. Not to forget the "early access", which means that you don't even have to complete the game. Just do an early access and run with the money.

 

[Infinitron]

Is there any point to Steam Greenlight anymore. They're just approving everything in larger and larger batches.

Hasn't helped poor Frayed Knights.

 

[Monty]

So Guido's blobber made it through greenlight without funding or even a demo in place. There's hope for Grimoire!

 

[felipepepe]

Grimoire AND Knight of the Chalice, please.

 

[Burning Bridges]

I don't have Steam.

 

[MicoSelva]

More accurately, Steam doesn't have You.

 

[TripJack]

There is no "PC master race" and yes I'm aware Yahtzee coined that term ironically.

there most certainly is a pc master race, but much like the gentle cheese-eating neanderthal they have been almost entirely replaced by untermenschen like you and yahtzee

 

[Metro]

Wow, Deathfire KS is going to fail miserably. Re: Greenlight, it's a joke now, anyway. GabeN wasn't happy with the way it turned out so now they just approve a hundred games every other week.

 

[Roguey]

Wow, Deathfire KS is going to fail miserably. Re: Greenlight, it's a joke now, anyway. GabeN wasn't happy with the way it turned out so now they just approve a hundred games every other week.

This will do more damage in the long-term, since more shovelware will likely end up decreasing confidence when it comes to blind-buying in sales. Jeff Vogel wrote a blog about how mass-Greenlighting means getting on Steam isn't the windfall it once was.

 

[Infinitron]

Wow, Deathfire KS is going to fail miserably. Re: Greenlight, it's a joke now, anyway. GabeN wasn't happy with the way it turned out so now they just approve a hundred games every other week.

This will do more damage in the long-term, since more shovelware will likely end up decreasing confidence when it comes to blind-buying in sales. Jeff Vogel wrote a blog about how mass-Greenlighting means getting on Steam isn't the windfall it once was.

You mean this? http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/marketing-dumb-luck-and-popping-of.html

That's not what his post was really about. He only mentioned "mass Greenlighting" once in passing. The post made a more general point about how in the long run, easy money "windfalls" always run out and that devs should consider the strategy of digging in for the long haul, like he did.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

The App Store is not successful at all because there are too many apps on it.

This is one of the things they didn't do right, restricting tons of very good games because of stupid elitist criteria. They did exactly the right thing for once.

 

[Metro]

Vogel complains no matter what. The 'long haul' strategy is to... wait for it... produce more games. Not going to be able to coast on one title your entire life. Unless you're Notch.