Group of indie developers have started a petition to get indie games to Steam. The petition is located here. The guy who started all this – Paul – has promised the following:
“If we get 10,000 signatures, I will personally fly out to Valve’s offices and give it to them, while dressed up as a tomato.”
That’s a good reason alone to sign the petition. I’ve just signed the petition and really hope that you’d do that as well. It took me like 8 seconds, so I’m sure that’s not too much to ask: just sign it, please. Can’t wait to see that guy in a tomato suit.
If you happen to have little bit of more time, remember to digg the article as well.
Yaya, steamworks sound pretty impressible. But it is not quite clear how to publish a game inside steam and how much is the cost.
What about SteamWorks?
http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/
Dont know the details but it seems promising though :)
I thought Steam already had a lot of “indie” games? I actually would prefer they keep the standards kind of high. That’s what the guy in charge of Steam told me he wanted to do at the game dev conference, I am too tired to remember the name of it.
Too many crap games would dilute its effectiveness. I’m not saying these games are crap, but they must have been rejected for a reason.