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Steam year in review 2023
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Creative Card Chaos is the No 1 (and 2) card based TTRPG on DTRPG. Thank you so much!
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The history of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out world records
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Link's Awakening DX HD - PC port (unofficial)
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Magnus Carlsen won his third title at the 2023 Champions Chess Tour Finals on Saturday, defeating Wesley So
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The rock that smashed a Scrabble world record
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Geometry Dash - Level 14 Clubstep closed eyes
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The Open Hand Foundation, founded in part by Jirard Khalil (The Completionist) has been keeping and storing donations for ten years
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See the sky: Thoru Yamamoto's Christmas story, for Playdate
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of December 10
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
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God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla | Reveal trailer (PS5 & PS4 games)
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Via: Solving the 100 GB problem
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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63 - A digital version of the classic "Celebrity" party game
Hello Tildes, I wanted to share with you a project that I have been working on for quite some time and have finally released. 63 is a modern version of the classic public domain party game known...
Hello Tildes, I wanted to share with you a project that I have been working on for quite some time and have finally released.
63 is a modern version of the classic public domain party game known by many names, but listed on wikipedia as Celebrity. (Some people might know it as Hat Game, Fishbowl or by some of its commercial versions such as Time's Up or Monikers)
The game works exactly like all these other games except you only need your phone to play it, no pen and paper or decks of cards required. The game is pass-and-play so only one phone is needed for a any size group.
For this initial release, the english version of the game only has 2 packs of cards available to choose from (General and Celebrities) but my goal is to add more packs and create a platform where anyone can create and share their own packs of cards.
You can download the game now on Android or on iOS.
For those not familiar with the rules I'll leave a brief explanation below but inside the game there's a more comprehensive rule section and tutorial.
GAME RULES:
A random deck of cards is generated for each game based on the packs chosen. Each card represents a concept and the objective of the game is for teams to guess as many cards as possible.
Two teams take it in turns to guess cards. Each turn is 63 seconds long and the player from the active team holds the phone and gives clues to their teammates.
There are three rounds, each with different rules for giving clues:
ROUND 1 - Forbidden words
You can’t use words from the card’s titleROUND 2 - Only one word!
You can't make sounds or gestures nor use any word in the card titleROUND 3 - Charades!
Words are forbidden, only gestures and sounds are allowedAt the end of the three rounds the team with the most points wins!
This is one of the first places I've shared the project in, especially for a global audience (since the game is also fully in portuguese), so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Hope you enjoy 63!6 votes -
Magic SNES controller from Abe's Projects
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IGN's The Day Before early access review - 1/10
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Monster Hunter Wilds | World premiere trailer at The Game Awards 2023
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E3 is dead for good
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Today's Google doodle is pretty entertaining
Google's Most Searched Playground: find on a huge map the most searched things of the year
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SEGA - "Power surge" | Reveal trailer
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Mouse | Official early gameplay trailer
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Tildes Minecraft Survival Bi-Weekly Thread
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Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of December 3
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The Game Awards 2023 winners: The full list
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Accessibility in gaming expands with Sony’s new Access Controller for PS5
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Humble Choice - December 2023
Sorry for the delay in posting this month. December's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games: Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck...
Sorry for the delay in posting this month.
December's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games:
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Expeditions: Rome 81 82/88 Win Playable Platinum Midnight Fight Express 76 82/91 Win Verified Gold ELEX II 65 61/75 Win Unsupported Gold Nobody Saves the World 80 87/91 Win Verified Platinum The Gunk 70 86/86 Win Playable Platinum The Pale Beyond 78 96/91 Win Mac Verified Platinum Last Call BBS TBC 95/95 Win Mac Lin Playable Native From Space TBC 88/67 Win Verified Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
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Light No Fires (from the makers of No Man's Sky) | Official reveal trailer
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Exodus (from the original development team behind Mass Effect) | Reveal trailer
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Grand Theft Auto VI | Trailer 1
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Black Myth: Wukong | Official release date trailer
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Cyberpunk 2077 — Update 2.1 overview
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T minus Zero, or releasing a game on Steam
Well, a few minutes ago I finally pushed the button, the game is released. So I wanted to write a short write up of some things that I had to do to release the game. I won't really talk about...
Well, a few minutes ago I finally pushed the button, the game is released. So I wanted to write a short write up of some things that I had to do to release the game. I won't really talk about making the game itself too much, more about the part of actually releasing the game, if you are interested in more of that you can see my posts from Timasomo (1, 2, 3, 4, showcase).
Steam
I have already created many games in the past, I've been making games for more than 5 years, but always as a hobbyist. So I never experienced releasing a game on a platform like Steam. I have to say working with Steam and Steamworks is very pleasant and streamlined, but it is still much more complex than for example releasing a game on itch.io, which is what I did before for all my other games. I'll try to summarize how the process looks like.
First, before you can even get on Steam, you have to register, fill out a ton of paperwork, wait some time for it to be manually approved. Afterwards, you have to pay the 100 dollars for Steam Direct. At this point you finally get a Steam app id, which you can use to start integrating Steam features into your game. For example, having achievements, Steam cloud integration (so the saves get synced between devices), leaderboards and potentially more, especially if you are making a multiplayer game. To make my game I am using Godot, and I found a C# library called Facepunch.Steamworks which made this all quite easy, I'd definitely recommend it if you are using Unity or Godot with C# and want to release your game on Steam.
Before releasing a game on Steam you also have to finish everything on a gigantic checklist, including things like: uploading 10 various header, capsule and other images which are used on the store page and Steam library. An icon for the game. What are the minimum requirements required to run the game, whether the game has adult content, whether it supports controllers, how much the game will cost, screenshots, a trailer, there are just so many things to do! And when you complete parts of this checklist you have to have your game go through manual reviews. Each review could take about 3 days to get done. I failed one review first so I had to resubmit it too and wait again. Let me tell you, if you plan to release a game on Steam, reserve at least a month to do it, and start going through the reviews as soon as possible -- actually I think there even is a minimum of a month before you can release the game from the day you get an app id.
Trailer
Creating a good trailer is super hard. I am not a video creator/editor at all, but luckily I at least own a solid program for creating videos -- Vegas 14 pro, that I got for super cheap in some Humble bundle about 8 or something years ago, so I at least had a good start there. I ended up with not that complex of a project and Vegas still kept crashing when rendering, so I am not sure if I'd recommend it though.
The hardest thing for a trailer is deciding what to put in it for me. I know that a trailer should be super short, should showcase how the gameplay looks, what are the features and so on, but when I got to actually making it, it was still super hard to decide what to put there. How do I even start? I watched a ton of other indie game trailers to get some inspiration and that also didn't help that much. There are some trailers which are really just gameplay, some trailers which are actually just incredible with editing I could never do as a pleb... So I started with something that I know a bit more. I created a very short music track, and decided that I will just edit the trailer to fit the music.
The music track basically splits the trailer into 4/5 very short sections:
- Basic gameplay, how the game looks when you start playing it
- Explaining the roguelite part of the game, selecting spells and items
- More complex gameplay, how some combinations of spells and items can look later in a run
- List of features
- Special bonus ending section showing a "Legendary" spell, which should show how insane spells can get, followed by the logo of the game
I think the trailer ended up being not too bad, but I still had some feedback that it isn't flashy enough. And it's true, but I am not really sure how to improve it easily. When watching the Vampire Survivors trailer for example I can see that they did a much better job: it's so much more dynamic, the music really pumps you up, it's overall better edited, it has cool transitions, camera movement and so on.
End
Releasing a game on Steam was a great experience. I learned so much! I basically made this game over weekends and evenings, since I also have a job. To try maintain my productivity I tried to do at least some work on the game every single day. I have to say that towards the end I started losing some steam (haha), some days scrambling to do at least something late in the evening before I went to sleep. But, if at least someone plays the game I think I want to keep updating it more, I still do really like the game!
Thanks for reading! Feel free to ask me anything about the game, or the game dev process, or about anything basically haha.
Here's the Steam store page, the game costs 5 dollars, I'd love it if you checked it out. If you want to play the game but can't afford it PM me and I'll send you a key for the game (at least once I get the keys I requested -- did you know that Steam has to approve the creation of keys manually? Edit: the keys are now ready)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2682910/The_Spellswapper/45 votes -
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU | Official reveal trailer
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Metaphor: ReFantazio — The Royal Tournament | Trailer
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OD | TGA 2023 teaser trailer
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Euclidea - interactive geometric puzzles
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Dave the Diver x Dredge Crossover | Trailer
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Windblown | Announcement trailer
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
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Bungie will lose independence within Sony if Destiny 2 fails financial goals
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LEGO Fortnite | Cinematic trailer
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Perusing Pentiment's boisterous bibliography
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GeoGuessr pros guess which Google Streetview images from around the world have been photoshopped
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Any Star Citizen folks here? I'm a new player with a barely passable rig, looking for tips to make play bearable...
Howdy, citizens! So, after begging, borrowing and stealing, I've managed to piece together what I believe to be a barely capable rig so that I can get into playing this incredible looking game,...
Howdy, citizens!
So, after begging, borrowing and stealing, I've managed to piece together what I believe to be a barely capable rig so that I can get into playing this incredible looking game, but I'm running into a performance issue that makes it pretty unplayable.
Here's my rig:
AMD A-10 6800k @ 4.1 GHz
32 GB Ram
128 GB SanDisk SSD (for the game only, OS is on a similar size Kingston)
GTX 960 for the graphics.Last night I tried running the game from my normal HD, which is a 1tb platter. This did not go well. Just moving my character around in the initial apartment was torture, and using anything in the room was an exercise in frustration to the point that the room ended up looking like a brawl had happened in it before I made it out, with coffee cups and water bottles all over the floor.
So, after I read a few pointers online, I salvaged the SanDisk from a different PC and began reinstalling on that. Today I hope to be able to move around smoothly enough to actually play, but aside from setting every option to its lowest, are there any other little tricks I can use to get it more playable?
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Play Steam VR games on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro
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First look at the new Mini Motorways map of Reykjavík, Iceland
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AAA studios sued for addictive games | Cold Take
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The return of the miracle sudoku
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