Tag: Steam Greenlight

Check Out The Trailer For ‘The Forest’ A First Person Survival Horror Game

by Shane O'Hare

Just hitting Steam Greenlight today The Forest has got some great vibes already. Check out the trailer and more info below.

I’m sold. This game looks like Minecraft HD, but with a little more violence thrown in. The nice calming music, gentle atmosphere and gripping loneliness make this a very interesting look. From the Greenlight page.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants.

Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

 

KEY FEATURES:

The world
Enter a living, breathing forest with changing weather patterns, plants that grow and die. Tides that roll in and out with the day/night cycle. Below ground explore a vast network of caves and underground lakes.

Complete player freedom
Chop down trees to build a camp, or start a fire to keep warm. Scavenge food to keep yourself from starving. Find and plant seeds to grow food.

Build a small shelter or a large ocean side fortress. decorate your home with found items. Lay traps and defenses to keep a safe perimeter.

Gameplay
Explore and build during the day. Defend your base at night. Craft weapons and tools.Bunker down during the evening or bring the fight directly to the enemy.

Fight or Hide
Use stealth to evade enemies, or engage them directly with crude weapons built from sticks and stones.

A new type of open world, survival horror experience
Defend yourself against a clan of genetic mutant enemies that have beliefs, families, morals and that appear almost human.

Full VR experience
Support for the Oculus Rift VR headset for the most immersive experience possible. (Editors Warning: May induce night terrors if played with Oculus Rift)

The only way we can get our hands on this is by voting for it on the Steam Greenlight Page. So if you want to give this game a try please go vote!

 

Valve Announces Steam Greenlight: You Can Help Decide What Goes in The Steam Store

by Shane O'Hare

The merry band of merry makers merrily marched their way into yet another gaming field. Today they announce their community driven game approval process “Steam Greenlight”

Steam Greenlight, in a nutshell, is Valves method of streamlining the game approval process. It allows developers to submit their game with screenshots, details, specs and trailers and lets the Steam community vote on weather or not the game gets put into the store!

Now I personally think this is great, but I have two concerns with some of their requirements.

Are there any restrictions on what can be posted?

Your game must not contain offensive material or violate copyright or intellectual property rights.

Not contain offensive material? That is pretty vague. I feel that leaves a big window open for valve to say no to certain games and yet let others pass no problem. I am sure some people find a lot of the M rated games on Steam to be offensive. I would like more clarification on this. Safe to say that stuff like JFK: Reloaded will NOT make it onto the store.

What do I need in order to submit my game?

You’ll need a valid and non-limited Steam account (yes, that means you’ll need to own a game on Steam).

Interesting. What constitutes as “owning” a game. Do free to play games like TF2 Free or Fallen Earth count? Is this just a nice way of saying ” you need to grease our palms BEFORE you submit a game that we take a cut of.”.

Those two gripes aside, this is still PRETTY exciting! I can’t wait to see what comes of this.