Thanks mate!

I would like to release a demo in the coming weeks.
I’ll try to get it done as quickly as possible – it’s pretty hard getting people to talk about your game if nobody can play it.
I will definitely announce it on greenlight/twitter/indiedb once the demo is out, so stay tuned 😉

Mate, that looks crazy as heck.
Would definitely play it if it makes it onto the Steam service, I love me some Rhythm games .

Is there a demo available?

Game looks neat. Could you drop me a line at the contact form linked at the top of the page please?

My game is called quadrant, check it out if you like:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=296271290

And thanks for the news, Lewie!

Yeah, “games as a service” is somewhat tied up with the Open Steam stuff, but tangentially so. Valve are obviously pushing devs to make a bigger deal of updates. Encouraging them to arrange discounts to coincide with major updates etc. Will be interesting to see how this develops.

I suspect Curators will turn out to be an evolution of the Recommendations system, whereas things that get the thumbs up from your friends (and people who you follow) will get an increase in visibility while things that get thumbs down get buried. Under this system, there’s no affiliate commission, since there wouldn’t be individual stores controlled by each user. Media companies, if they use it, would probably link through to the full review and hope to get click-throughs and hence ad money.

It makes sense, because there’s still a central storefront for Valve to highlight the big sales and whatnot, while giving an increased amount of control to the end user as to what they see. If they want just the popular new games, they can do that. If they want to see things their friends recommend, job done, and so on.

Will this solve the visibility problem? Probably not. It’ll probably be partly based on popularity, so the rich will still get richer. That said, I suspect it’ll be far better than the current store, since a couple of positive recommendations from your friends/followers would probably pop a game into view.