will go look ty for the heads up :)

And now, for one of the brightest moments of Early Access:

Tomorrow, The Planet Crafter is set to release out of Early Access. It has deserved the Overwhelmingly Positive review score every step of the way. The devs are keen on taking on feedback, especially right through the game itself.

I find it to be a "survival crafting metroidvania" because your progression is blocked by several planetary conditions, notably oxygen at the start and then heating up blocking ice, or even making natural plants thrive enough they make new passages.

There is no combat aside from the survival meters, which you can eventually make moot. If you carry along enough resources then it plays pretty zen.
If you decide to get it, wait for the launch -30% discount.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1284190/The_Planet_Crafter/
https://steamproxy.net/games/1284190/announcements/detail/4111296332074933481

great profile that is a hell of a tally on NV well done !!

Super Pigs... thanks, Canada.

In the spirit of... other recent chants:

From sea to shining sea, if you are invading and burning my Longhouse then kimdly ♥♥♥♥ off with ye.

For the record, no self respecting tribe were ever okay with using children as human shields, and to a matrilineal peoples the idea of women's rights being THAT crap is absolutely abhorrent.

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They are the new loading screen.

And there's always... kittens game.

We're all doomed.

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Merry Christmas fren.

Happy xmas man. Sorry to hear our old group got nuked!! Best wishes to all the family

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and all them other seasoned greetings.

Merry Christmas!

Happy xmas to the original l'original

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Ballsac.

While others might have said Merry Christmas, it's all about intent not what is said. I hope you too had a good one. May this new year bring you good things.

Merry Corporate Marketing Day.

Merry Christmas to you and all the extended l'original clan

Ah, thank you a bunch for that - I think that's exactly the reason why I had listed it because of a previous time it had gone free. As for the rest of my wishlist...dunno, some of them have turned into messes or the developers made me have a think about throwing money their way.

I just noticed that you got Unreal Gold on your Steam wish list ,
I also noticed that it is free on both Steam and GOG , at least until tomorrow :
https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/13250/Unreal_Gold/
https://www.gog.com/#giveaway

Have a great holiday! Keep fighting the good fight!

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AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR :3

Happy holidays to you and all the family!

Yeah, just saw this.
Also the guy who made Fidget Spinner has had all his games removed too.

This actually restores some hope that Valve may be able to better maintain their Store so that others aren't have to do so for them, before they run afoul of gov't regulators able to make them go the same way as previous digital distribution platforms.

https://youtu.be/SOiO7xJtOQA

The #1 reason why "Steam Community = Toxic" is because we're often the customers of developers like these that offer nothing nice to be said about them. It tends to leave us grumpy and to see the same of others using the same brands.

Cheers to Valve on this one.

I have to wonder if that description is about Underdone as of yet nothing on Steam suggests anything of the sort.

You might like the last 3 hidden achievements.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/328658830076411905/359207467810553865/unknown.png

I'd rather not keep posting on the review, but there is new art etc.
The game sort of works like kingdom hearts where you will travel to new worlds and the art style will be completely different.
I don't want to make some asset flip that's going to rustle Jim's or SidAlphas feathers.

They seem to be back up and around, though I think they're still working on the DLC more than anything.

I'll give it a wait to see what happens.

defenitly wait, as thre problems in ecology have been there for 8 weeks as the dev went dark... in the wake of another DLC announcement, too.

i also have a strong suspicion that ecology is made in unity. based off of the "learn real science!!1" aspects of both games, i also suspect the devs have some sort of edutainment grant or tax break.

i understand ecology is a recent-ish launch from early access, but it feels a little incomplete and very unpolished. there's a lot of "summary from wiki" information, but not a lot of information about ingame effects or even relevant info.

Famiry has some interest in it so I was asking. They also seem to have an MMO version of sorts in EA, might have to keep an eye on that to see how well it does.

not too bad, but it has some issues with the base logic that can be fixed by changing a few variables and adding a few tokens. unfortunatly, the data files are all packed up, so i cant make these fixes, and have to wait on an upcoming patch.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/13/peter-molyneuxs-the-trail-frontier-challenge-is-coming-to-steam/

This is beyond WTF. This is the game that was developed using the money Godus Early Access customers paid (even on mobile, who were left with the microtransaction bait just suddenly ending in middle of the second land), after the studio crowdfrauded with the KS to bait-and-switch it into a complete opposite of the KS pitch as a particularly rich "♥♥♥♥ you" to those who still trusted Peter even then.

Wasn't the first time I've had to save a developer from themselves, as most folks think "AAA = evil" despite the publisher filtering out a lot of the worse dev acts in the name of self-brand-preservation (and even take on some of the blame for a dev's problems themselves), and so I don't feel bad about playing the part of the heavy.

https://steamproxy.net/id/lOriginalR/recommended/381220/

Now that the developer has fixed everything and took one further - unasked for - step, despite how it took to get there, they shouldn't have much problem from now on. They now stand as an example of a developer screwing up and fixing the problem.

I now need a sandvich...

I like your "info"/CV (and would also like to ask your advice - if you don't mind) , so I have sent you a Steam-friend invite

[NWE]lockinhind : I had a feeling that scumbag dev was familiar.

More info on that fellow here: http://steamproxy.net/groups/dissenters-anonymous/discussions/2/2333276539603423964/

Do these fools just not read their Steamworks Documentation to know the basics?

Valve can see everything on their system - even if "deleted" - and both Valve and Steam Community Moderators are able to see every bit of the ban messages and attached conversations.

id message you in the discussions but im afraid that andrew really didn't like the forced unban they gave me.

Wow, holy mother of cats, l'Original! (Ye always be 'Mandrake' to me.) To publicly own up is a great first step! If they follow through, then they have done what few others have done. You made my day with that announcement alone, thanks! :insert more happy emoji here:

http://steamproxy.net/games/381220/announcements/detail/2641773114861818516

RE: Update - Now THAT is a significant step forward.

I will not be refunding, but I am finding compelling reasons to change my review.
I like redemption stories and hopefully this can become one of them.

Amusingly enough, it was from a Google search of just "royalmage7" to see if there was any outside of Steam connections. (The only reason why I put the dev's name in the search bar was to highlight what they already had - and recently removed - from their profile, but Google Cache still had it.)

Aside from that profile oops, there was this:
https://mspoweruser.com/author/royalmage7/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/delenartd-remastered/9nblggh07zvm

Found it nearly from the start. I thought I'd let the developer have a chance to come clean or continue digging, it was up to them. Sadly, they chose poorly, opting to lie in a way to preserve their alt account's reviews.

Now read all of their alt account's posts with this new info in mind and the fraud takes on a whole new tone...

Now the reveal of exactly who has been lying:
http://i.imgur.com/Mb0iOsg.png
http://batholithgames.com/batholith-entertainment-who-are-we/

Busted reviewing his own game using an alt account.

More info about the Hydraulic Empire dev's fraudulent claims of being the only developer:
https://www.giantbomb.com/hydraulic-empire/3030-53983/credits/
http://www.develop-online.net/press-releases/solitude-entertainment-launches-hydraulic-empire-on-steam-early-access/0208870

It's funny how many developers screw themselves by not listening to Valve's advice, which Valve doesn't do often so it should be that more important.

Just recently a developer who did the whole Greenlight votes for keys thing by selling their keys in a bundle found out how badly they screwed themselves and tried to go back on the transaction on legitimate customer who then took objection to block any sales as the developer made themselves known as "that" sort. Their excuses had something to do with card farmers, but it really had to do with the developer being stupid enough to flood the market with low cost keys to their game in the hopes of Greenlight votes, and now that they are through Greenlight they can't make any sales from the key resellers undercutting their own Steam store.

Try to short one step of the system and entirely lose the long game - a certain amount of poetry in that.

Not much the scambags can really say at this point but try to repeat their own lies. None of them care to come clean or be honest and that is the main reason why they get kicked - trying to hide the evidence (and the number of developers who believe that Valve can't see everything they delete is just bonkers).

But now we have proof AND the developer lying about the association.

All the proof you need to know Batholith Entertainment's "lead developer" is shoveling a load of Godus is to go to https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=439332629

Go to page 37 and then go backwards:

"royalmage7 [author] May 17, 2015 @ 1:28pm
Jal, I will have a talk with Kyle (our artist) tomorrow about it. We may put it at the end rather than the beginning, and we may take it out. Thank you for the recommendation, and your kind words!"

Cheers on royalmage7 on directly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone involved in the fraud.

This has again made me think that lately I must remember my own roots and those who have shared in the same sunshine of those years.

I have issued some frustration with some of the more dishonest Russian and Cyprus developers in a more generalised way than I should have at times, when those who have asked for not a penny have helped keep interest alive in many beloved settings we enjoy.

"War, war never changes..."

At least your contryfellows show a good thing - ambition.
Now you just need to teach them how to do things right and we welcome them with open arms and we can start another industry boom instead of fostering customer distrust in the entire market.

A slice from some of my personal woes:

For the last few years I've been trying to make a sort of talent agency/connection around Steam. Not to be the middleman but to see some games being made as well as they can. Lots of interest in this sort of thing, to be picked from a sample of assets modders and developers here upon Steam Workshop can bring on.

Lately, the developers have been frightening the talent from being associated with those brands.

Some will not be associated with crowdfunded projects because of the burns behind them.
Others will not be associated with "hive indies" that can act worse than AAAs in many ways, with some real Good Ole Boy politics.
Then, Valve now appears to pay a pittance for community-generated assets, killing any kind of incentivizing the whole thing despite the whole paid mods lip-service.