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What does it take to get a game on steam?
Extrude:
--- Quote from: Flamecannon on June 22, 2012, 11:56:49 PM ---ah i assumed it would've been a problem
i don't know how most things work in games like you guys :c
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Get back to the studio... art slave//
Nickelob Ultra:
--- Quote from: Bisjac on June 22, 2012, 11:53:36 PM ---i think blockland would do very very well on steam. though i cant imagine what it would be like using the steam community for joining on people, rather then the master server we have now.
maybe we can use both
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AFAIK games can still be sold on Steam and still be independent of Steamworks and Steam servers, aside from simply downloading the game. Considering the auto-updater works just as well with it, too...
heedicalking:
I think there's some kind of restrictions I remember reading about other devs who didn't want to use it
Placid:
--- Quote from: Chrono on June 22, 2012, 11:32:47 PM ---The only problem with Blockland is that no one knows how to find it, nor are they looking for it, because they don't know it exists. I can ask anyone on any game about it and they'll say no. In fact, in all years of my online gaming, I've only seen one other person who has played it.
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this
although in one case somehow i managed to find an old blockland friend on a new game, but i guess that's a different situation. to be honest the only people i've ever known that have tried and liked blockland have been me and my brother.
viper30000:
Revelations 2012 is only there cause it uses source engine which is loving stupid. Plenty of good games have been rejected by steam but they let that stuff in because its source