Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: razing32Shouldn't people be able to make some cash from their work ?
Or do you mean these run of the mill asset flips ?

Yeah these half-assed projects from a single hobbyist who probably himself think he's got great stuff going (as everyone thinks of their own work). To demand money from your work (should) require a certain level of skill, and a certain technical level. There should be a difference between what any amateur can do on their home computer, and someone who's spent a lot of his time and money to study, practise and achieve a skill level (and experience!) significantly above what average Coder Joe can do.

These projects in the category of this thing here should be open source, maybe gain some assistance from people with a motivation to join the project, and perhaps become something worth playing.

The easy entry into the Steam marketplace has one really bad consequence: Any fool or speculative idiot can push code onto the platform.
I think they should raise the entry cost of entering Steam significantly, so only projects from established professionals got through the bottleneck. A massive increase.

Same goes with "Early Access" - it should be charged by the month.

The part of the "indie scene" as this is representative of should find another hub to play on, create their own marketplace.

Sadly steam has been a mess ever since Greenlight. And the issue is their refuse to manually moderate via employees instead relying on automated systems and entry costs.

Also a lot of these asset flips on steam are like this for a purpose. To farm steam trading cards for cash.
There were groups dedicated for voting on steam greenlight in exchange for game keys and then both them and the dev farmed the cards. The game itself had no value at all.

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Quoting: BeamboomI'm so tired of these one man "indies". So, so tired.

They should be open source projects, not monetized.

Shouldn't people be able to make some cash from their work ?
Or do you mean these run of the mill asset flips ?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThat sounds sort of odd coming from your handle and avatar. Are you some kind of wool-only chauvinist?

Sheep are majestic and wise beings and obviously above any furry-related material.
The avatar is actually from Temple Of Elemental Evil, which is D&D, so mostly just fantasy (with a tiny bit of furry stuff here and there).
I actually love REAL animals, except maybe cats, as they have vile personalities and I die from being unable to breathe if they are close.

But if everything in a setting is made up of animals in human clothing, there is just no way I can take it seriously. It is just wrong. I also hate people who dress up their animals in people's clothing. A dog is a dog FFS and should be naked (except if very cold and it's not a "winter compatible" dog) not a doll to play with! Man, that gets me angry just thinking about it. Urge to hand out backhand slaps increases.

As to my nick... oh boy, that goes waaaay back :D

Well don't stop the story there.
Tell us the whole story. Seems to be a funny one.

Also , I never get why people hate cats personalities. If you treat them like ornaments why are you so surprised when they return the favor.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemBillboard grass and chunky weapon models are setting off alarm bells. Wonder what engine it's using.

Are you being sarcastic ? :D

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Quoting: charliebrownauGday
Looks good
If you like this stype of game I recommend checking out Alien Swarm Reactive Drop (DX9c) (free)

Its good to see this game having coop and on linux

That is still Windows only so far.
Do they have any plan on porting it ?

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Jydge Dr3ad featuring Stylvester Sallone :D

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Sounds like something one should buy on sale ;)

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Just picked it up.
Will give it a go over the weekend :)

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I agree with a few above.
I swear this looks like an asset flip and that I recognize some of the assets already.

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I've had Kingdoms since it came out but never got around to playing it.
This style of game appeals to me.
Will probably get this as well :)

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