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[jack_norton]

Primordia was probably the fastest Grennlit game ever (2 weeks I think). Shows how easily the people at Valve can misjudge a game. Especially crazy considering Dave has SEVEN games already there...! 

[Deviator]

I'm reading this thread and for some reason no one is sharing their experience with greenlight.
Are there no people who at least tried to push/register game on Greenlight?

I mean if you listed at least on greenlight that should bring you some traffic to your main website isn't it?

So anyone?

[Klaim]

Some have, read again (or farther).

[Udderdude]

Considering re-doing the artwork on the XOP games (or one of them, anyway) and submitting them to Greenlight.  Worth the time/effort?

The improvements would be make everything 32-bit instead of 8-bit paletted and remove/replace some of the backgrounds, or make everything into a vector art style.

For those that haven't seen it :

http://rydia.net/udder/prog/xop/index.html
http://rydia.net/udder/prog/xopblack/index.html

[melos]

I'm reading this thread and for some reason no one is sharing their experience with greenlight.
Are there no people who at least tried to push/register game on Greenlight?

I mean if you listed at least on greenlight that should bring you some traffic to your main website isn't it?

So anyone?

Not sure - they don't allow direct links to most websites , so I can't tell for Anodyne.

Greenlight has mostly been useless on its own. A hundred or so unique views but no one comments on anything (I mean neither do I when browsing through). We've been "55% to the top 100" in the past two months, and more or less it will stay that way until we do more marketing things, since we're relatively new to the Steam scene and don't have a huge fanbase:

1. Release the game and get press - I'm assuming this will happen, our very short demo got a lot of positive press. May help the greenlight effort a little bit.
2. Release the game and get LPs by large LP'rs. Not sure how likely, but this will more or less make or break you.
3. Run a kickstarter for some hardware we need for mobile ports and then get some fans/press from that.

If those 3 don't work, then from the Greenlight perspective we're screwed (unless somehow the game is popular among people and takes off via word of mouth, but I wouldn't bet on that) - nothing will ever bump you up and it's been consistently shown that the only Greenlit titles are those in the top 10, or those that have been rising very quickly (e.g. Primordia).

[Ouren]

I'm reading this thread and for some reason no one is sharing their experience with greenlight.
Are there no people who at least tried to push/register game on Greenlight?

I mean if you listed at least on greenlight that should bring you some traffic to your main website isn't it?

So anyone?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92983309

Traffic to the mainsite, or other sites have not increased at all. We link them to those sites, but there is minimal clicking.
We now just repost the news from the mainsite to the announcements portion of the greenlight page.

[J-Snake]

Considering re-doing the artwork on the XOP games (or one of them, anyway) and submitting them to Greenlight.  Worth the time/effort?

I would start with renaming your games first.

[Deviator]

Traffic to the mainsite, or other sites have not increased at all.

That's a bummer, considering you have 150 comments and how many more people have not commented at all but know about existence of your game. 

Run a kickstarter

Kickstarter requires US citizenship btw

[Klaim]

Or english now. Some say if you find an US or Uk address you can point too and you can use an US or UK bank account, it's ok.

[J-Snake]

Anyone experience how (action) puzzle games are doing on steam?

[Ouren]

Fucking exclusive secret meetings happening.
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/EnriqueDryere/20130507/191870/Main_Points_from_Valves_Greenlight_Developer_Chat_5713.php

[melos]

I don't think it's exclusive, that group has always existed (You just need to ask to join or join yourself, that's what I did). I only heard of the talk through word of mouth.

[Mister Dave]

It's exclusive to people with Greenlight submissions. If you paid the $100 fee you can join unrestricted. If you got into Greenlight prior to the fee you should send a message to Alden or TomB and they'll send you an invitation to join.

[Tom_CrunchingKoalas]

Don't know if the meeting was exclusive or not, but just in case it was, I've posted a filtered chat transcript from the meeting, so anyone can read it:

Improving Steam Greenlight: Valve meets indie devs in an online meeting

May it serve you well.

Cheers,
Tom - Crunching Koalas

[Ouren]

I'm furious.
I'm getting better treatment from Sony.

[Tom_CrunchingKoalas]

I'm furious.
I'm getting better treatment from Sony.

Yeah, the meeting was hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

So, you're developing for Sony, eh?


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Tom

[hanako]

Didn't they send an email around to all registered greenlight devs well in advance, telling us to join the group so we could get into the chat?

Or did that only go to a subset?

(Check spam filter?)

[Tom_CrunchingKoalas]

Didn't they send an email around to all registered greenlight devs well in advance, telling us to join the group so we could get into the chat?

Or did that only go to a subset?

(Check spam filter?)

Dunno, we got it  . Anyway, as you can see- the meeting wasn't worth it.

Tom

[moi]

I'm furious.
I'm getting better treatment from Sony.

did they finally accept the game?

[Ant]

I don't think it's exclusive, that group has always existed (You just need to ask to join or join yourself, that's what I did). I only heard of the talk through word of mouth.

Do the Steam dudes talk to people in that group's discussion page or is it just Greenlighters chatting?