Quoting: MayeulCAlso, is it just me, or does the steam deck OLED loses charge faster than the non-OLED when sleeping? The battery can be drained in 1 or 2 days. They should probably hibernate if the console hasn't been used in a few hours.

I've not particularly looked into it, but the Bluetooth chip in the OLED stays powered when the device is in sleep for Bluetooth wake; I expect that would cause higher drain.

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That's pretty aggressive.

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Quoting: faeranneThey require that if the Steam Key is directly sold, one must provide an "equal or better deal" directly through the Steam Store. So this point is just plain wrong.

As an additional point, they don't require exactly the same price even for the sale of keys that they give out for free. It's "comparable offer, within a reasonable amount of time." "Don't take the piss," basically.

Quoting: ValveYou should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam.
It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.

Steam Keys shouldn't be given away for free if you aren't also offering the same deal (i.e., give the game away for free) to Steam customers. This includes giveaways for promotional purposes, unless that giveaway is very small (under 100 Steam Keys). If you want to run a giveaway on Steam, please reach out to us and submit a ticket.

It's OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

(emphasis in original)

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Quoting: ivarhillI actually don't have a Steam Deck myself (I play games exclusively on desktop Linux)

You should get one: they're pretty great.

Quoting: ivarhillbut I will be sure to get one at some point so that it's ensured to work in the best way possible - as well as ensuring good controller support!

~10% of game sessions on Steam are done with a controller, and ~24% of those are with a PlayStation controller (and it's a personal peeve when games just have Xbox glyphs). You definitely don't want to miss out on those, plus it's an accessibility thing for some players. Glad to hear you're on the case.

Good luck with the rest of the development!

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Here's hoping they make it work with controllers (lots of controller users on Steam) including appropriate glyphs for non-Xbox controllers (which you can get automatically from Steam Input or SDL), as well as obviously considering things like text size on the Deck.

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Hopefully they'll make sure that they get that Verified green tick since Deck & cozy go together so well. They're off to a good start with the native build and

Find your comfort level with an accessible by design approach to input requirements, gameplay modes, and bonus challenge puzzles.

but it would be a shame for them to trip themselves up with something like text boxes or font size. The other games got the tick, though, so I expect they're on the case.

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Announced for Windows, it should work just fine on Linux with Proton though. It has controller support too, so hopefully it will also work well on Steam Deck.

It may well, but I'll still be waiting till it's 75% off before getting it - unlike, say, Selaco that I'd get at full price.

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To clarify further: on Steam it's the game developer that sets the limits.

To set up Steam Cloud you must set the Byte quota per user and Number of files allowed per user options on the Steam Cloud Settings page in the Steamworks App Admin panel.

This quota is enforced on each Cloud-enabled game, on a per-user-per-game basis. It's recommended to set the values to reasonable amounts for your game title.

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Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

This one is very sweet.

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Oh, apparently the outside ring housing for the sticks spins round as a jog control. That's pretty neat, actually.

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