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[melos]

hi seagaia

do you happen to know how many steam greenlight votes you got? just curious to know how many votes it takes to get greenlit...

22.4k yes votes, but i think we got greenlit from rising fast due to the pirate bay stuff.

I think so too. I'm sure we had more votes than anodyne at the time, but that PB thing was probably a really good thing.

Could you perhaps show the vote curve or, uh, describe it... haha, don't know how picky valve is about this kind of info....

We were 50% to top 100 before the promo (8k upvotes?), after promo I think we were at #60, then in the next 9 days till we got greenlit we rose to #45.

[melos]

productivity today.


got an installer working for windows, with controller support (thanks NSIS!) . need to do that song and dance on a mac still, though. 

also got steam cloud/achievements working with the test app, but not anodyne yet since valve has not responded to me yet

Also, Josh mattingly and Jesse cox made a video of it for their Series The Greenlight!




And Josh said some really kind things in his video.

[melos]

so...finally fucking got mac controller and steamworks working with Mac.



AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.



thanks to: mysterious person on adobe forums, jotapeh, andy and lars.......woo!

[melos]

I actually got mac stuff working yesterday. Now doing packaging with linux, but have to go back to my apartment first...need root privileges, blah....

other tidying up. really wish i could be getting more stuff otu of the way since it's hard for me to focus on the next project with the steam stuff on my mind.

[Drakken]

Also, Josh mattingly and Jesse cox made a video of it for their Series The Greenlight!





And Josh said some really kind things in his video.

Nice. I love how they freaked out when they got to the Sea. :lol

[melos]

yeah, i always love people's reaction to that event..

anyways, we are on board with GOG. thatll probably happen before Steam since they seem to be pretty fast in replying.

worked on some linux controller crap. made a bunch of scripts to alleviate compiling this config program and joy2key, and that does the config pretty painlessly.

need to fix something with mac, because some controllers crash the extension.

ah!

[melos]

did that mac fix. fixed another controler bug. made some map tweaks. heh, 21st century game dev, fixing stuff months later...

well, sent that off to GOG, so thatll be up soon, i assume.

[melos]

okay, GOG release is the 21st for the interested.

I've finally uploaded the nnew versions for each OS that has controller support in some form! thank god.

Now to make the kongregate version, and then make sure achievements work so that when I get SDK access, being donw ith steam will take less than an hour.

[melos]

working on a new game with jon.
 

one stpe closer to steam release.

[AD1337]

working on a new game with jon.

Awesome, are we going to see a devlog for that too? If so, when?  

Just so you know, your updates are all very useful for devs, thanks for letting us know about the behind-the-scenes.

[melos]

working on a new game with jon.

Awesome, are we going to see a devlog for that too? If so, when?  

Just so you know, your updates are all very useful for devs, thanks for letting us know about the behind-the-scenes.

Hmm, maybe I will start it now. I am not going to talk about design in it until we are set, bt I could show progress with the editor and stuff.

Right now I am building a simple in-game editor to alleviate the iteration process.

Also this happened with Anodyne.

[Schrompf]

You're my (at the time of writing) hero! If the scarce sales data about Steam vs. overall is true, you're gonna earn a golden nose and maybe halve an ear.

(Is this even an official english phrase?)

[melos]

yeah, that will be nice..!



well, ran into issues with getting the builds onto steam SURPRISE!!!

Issues:

All: Typing chat in overlay maakkeesss thiisss hhaapppeennn. There is a fixed version, but it crashes the cloud

Mac: Won't even work when uploaded and downloaded via steam. Working on it.

Linux: havent' figured out how to get the communication binary wrapper thing working.


BUT if youu doonnttt mmiiinnddd thhiisss then it works fine on Windows.

[AD1337]

Will we be seeing mobile versions of Anodyne?

[melos]

Yeah - Android at some point, and then later iOS (maybe concurrently). Hoping to release the Android one as part of a humble android bundle, but I have a little more work (I want to include a portrait/landscape switch because people will inevitably complain, and also different sizes of buttons because, well..

http://tweakers.net/ext/f/VvCYaXNJgVwQe3fz7oJF7rOI/full.png

Surprise, actually the entire sides respond to touch, i.e. all of the blank spots are still registering keypresses, the visuals of the buttons just need to be larger...

[melos]

Finally got the mac stuff functional for Steam.

So, stats (just one stat), achievements and cloud saving, and in-game controller support work with Mac and Windows Steam versions.

Just a small fix (I think..) to make for the Linux version and we are good to go.

The overlay remains buggy, though, but that's okay. I can at least still have "partial" controller support.

[mushbuh]

are you porting it to android via HAXE? Did you use some kind of as3 -> haxe thing? 

[melos]

are you porting it to android via HAXE? Did you use some kind of as3 -> haxe thing? 

nah, since we use AIR, we just piggy back off of air installed on android and the game magically works. same deal with iOS. performance blows, but we seem to be okay.

[mushbuh]

are you porting it to android via HAXE? Did you use some kind of as3 -> haxe thing? 

nah, since we use AIR, we just piggy back off of air installed on android and the game magically works. same deal with iOS. performance blows, but we seem to be okay.

oic, i've read there are as3 > haxe converters. maybe you could try that. Or not, if this is working. or something. I dont know.

[melos]

steam might be tomorrow YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST just waiting for confirmation from my contact at steam and then i'll be spreading the message..