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There are always exceptions of course. But in 95% of cases Steam will provide better exposure.

Indie devs can't compete on a limited marketing/media exposure budget to the big Steam exposure machine.
You're talking 40+ million potential users compared to indies bringing in a few thousand...

Very simple, I've said it before, and burningpet posted a sample image further up, give Greenlight games exposure in the Steam client, either through a panel as burningpet has shown on the front...

The steam community should decide what is 'unprofessional' and what is not.
Give each developer a fair chance of exposure, and the crap will filter to the bottom.
Getting onto Steam should not be...

I agree with all this, but don't think popularity should count. It should be purely random, with priority given to games with downloadable, functional demos. Steam needs to be the tool that provides...

My improvement list for Greenlight...

1.) Improve discoverability of Greenlight titles, by showing 2-3 random titles daily on the Steam news update popup window

2.) Compare apples with apples,...

You are correct Boris.

The compression was so simple, that I thought de-compression would be a breeeze, while it was, the de-compression revealed a fatal flaw, so lots of data was missing in the...

Thanks for the interest . it's still in the prototyping stage but I need to put a nice pretty UI around it and do some performance optimizations, and hopefully find some ways to squeeze out a little...

Well that is the beauty of it, you can take a compressed format, and compress it even more to save space/storage, send it via email etc. I don't know of any other software that can compress already...

Writing a software tool that does this and selling it for cash is more my idea, and my forte.
How exactly does publishing a paper make one money?

Yep, lossless. It's actually pretty simple, and was just thinking outside the box.
Here are my stats so far on the prototype...



File Type

Original Size

Zip (Max)

True, but the question is, will people pay for the ability to compress video and audio, because no other software can?
Anyway, we shall see..

Well the original format makes no difference. It can really achieve 50-60%, no matter what file you throw at it.
I guess then here the power of my algorithm is that it can compress files that have...

I've just developed a compression algorithm that can compress any audio/video file to 50-60% of it's original size, which can be uncompressed again for use.

I'm just trying to determine if...

Care to clarify what you mean by that statement?

I'm, talking more for storage/archive purposes or to send to people over the net.

If there was software that could compress audio/video down to 50-60% of it's original size do you think people...

If you try WinRAR, WinZip or 7Zip, none of these programs can compress video and audio files much at all.
For instance a 20MB file only gets compressed to like 19.5MB on max compression.

What...

Thanks for posting that Koala.

The first question and answer sums up what's wrong with Greenlight, discoverability for Steam's 40+ million users of Greenlight titles. Our page on Greenlight has...

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We're an indie game development company from South Africa about to release our first in-house title, Monster Truck Racing Arenas.

Each game is made up of a Race Session, which can have from 3 up...

We have just re-done the tracks and environments in the game, and we still have a lot of tweaking to do with regards to props placement and sizing. But thank you for the feedback, much appreciated.

The forum automatically sizes them to that size...

Here are some direct links to some larger images...

http://meltdown.co.za/images/screenshots/sand_big.jpg...

They look a lot more monstery when the game is taking up the whole screen on a monitor :)

Monster Truck Racing Arenas - Final artwork...

http://www.meltdown.co.za/Images/screenshots/sand.jpg

http://www.meltdown.co.za/Images/screenshots/mud.jpg
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I've just upgraded so my rig will last me another 3-4 years or so :)

But now I can spend all my hard earned money on all the new consoles such as the OUYA and new Xbox.
One can never take a break...