Steam Greenlight Launches Community-Based Game Platform

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Although a bit late to post this:

 

Steam Greenlight Launches Community-Based Game Platform

 

By Stephanie Mlot August 31, 2012 11:24am EST

 

Game maker Valve is enlisting the community's help in selecting Steam's new game releases.

 

Steam Greenlight launched Thursday, allowing developers and publishers to pitch their games to the Steam community in the hopes that users will vote for it to be released on the service. Announced in July, the Steam Greenlight platform piggybacks on Steam Workshop's flexible system, which organizes content and lets customers rate and leave feedback on games, according to Valve.

 

"We've been working on this feature for the last few months with the input from a group of indie partners, and the response has been extremely positive," Valve's Anna Sweet said in a statement. Additional help from beta testers has helped the company launch what Sweet called "a solid line-up of titles" for gamers to start viewing and rating. "As we've done with all Steam features, we intend to continually grow and modify Greenlight as more and more developers and community members have a chance to get involved," Sweet said.

 

Valve touted Greenlight's ability to showcase new games, and provide an opportunity for potential customers and fans to connect directly to the latest offerings. The Steam Greenlight site offers 565 entries for gamers to browse, rating up the titles they want Steam to make available for future game play.

 

Valve includes PC and Mac options, for single-player, multi-player, and cross-platform multiplayer games in a number of different genres, including action, strategy, RPG, casual, simulation, free-to-play, and sports. By clicking on any title, browsers will venture to a page where a slideshow showcases game photos and video, and a sidebar provides genre, platform, language, and players information, as well as an overview written by the game maker team. The Steam Greenlight website provides a forum space for fans to voice opinions about particular games, or the Greenlight process, as some have taken to doing. A list of pending and accepted games will be made available once items have received enough votes and been promoted to those stages.

 

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409173,00.asp

Source 2: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Black-Mesa-McPixel-Routine-Kenshi-Get-Green-Lit-Steam-46787.html

 

The first ten well-known mods are going to be in the Steam platform:

· Black Mesa

· Cry of Fear

· Dream

· Heroes & Generals

· Kenshi

· McPixel

· No More Room in Hell

· Project Zomboid

· Routine

· Towns

 

Now I hope Renegade-X and some other C&C mods will join the others soon. However, I won't be paying for mods that are not free, except maybe for indie games.

[Tore 33]

Heroes & Generals, McPixel and Project Zomboid (among others I guess) are not mods, but full blown games...