Indieroyale Alpha Bundle

Whenever did Steam do Alpha's?

/Perplexed about comments.

Sorry to say this, but it is just as likely they are getting feed up with narrow-minded steam fanbois repeating the same mantra. Your comment do not cost any sales as those who think as you wouldn't buy anyway.

a LOT of support. I mean that minecraft clone sure took a lot of effort to create... Slap in the crapple hook mod and guns mod and what exactly was creative about it?

lol :D

true

there are?

Also, HIB Mojam aimed to create complete games in 60 hours.

These IndieRoyale Alpha Bundle games are not meant to be complete games, and are meant to be works in progress.

Not to mention that Voxatron actually looks like a really good game, something I'd consider backing without the bundle. These games is nothing I'd even noticed had it not been for the bundle.

be a game developer or a bundle organizer and you will know why

Because Steam generally doesn't take alpha games (and very rarely takes Betas). They can't just magic this shit up out of thin air. Desura is a much more open platform and y'know, runs IndieRoyale. So expecting alphas to be on Steam is generally moronic.

They have said that if the games get on Steam once they're finished then you'll get a key. They literally can't promise any more than that.

Pretty sure they always do that regardless?

No, it isn't. What on earth makes you say that?

Managing games via the windows file explorer is easier than managing them via steam

I... Have you read the Steam EULA? The very first clause is you buy a license that allows you to use the games, not the games themselves. That means there's a very strict code of conduct you have to obey or they can revoke your license and take the game away from you. Otherwise, the very day Steam stops existing for whatever reason (bankruptcy, hackers, you name it) you can't play your games anymore.

I'll admit I like Steam. But whenever I buy a bundle, I keep the link somewhere so that if Steam wrongs me I can just download most of my games from the bundles. However I cannot say in good conscience that managing games with Steam is easy. It sucks, period. There should be ways of listing your games - by rating, by hours played... and perhaps put them in two-three categories at once too (a category for Action/Shooters and another for Co-op so that you can get Zombie Shooter in both for example).

While I've recently acquired a number of games on Steam, most of my games are still not on Steam.

Steam only does two things:

• convenient redownload in case I switch computers / need to free up space for now / computer crashes / etc. (i.e. more reliable than other download servers, possibly including commercial download sites like Humble Bundle's servers)
• gaming community

The second one, to me, is not the greatest thing in the world, and the first one merely means that I don't have to back stuff up.

I still prefer using folder/files view to get to stuff, double-click/press-enter-on the .EXE file, etc..

Ok, thanks for clearing it up

Randomly generated blocky terrain. It seems to have some cool features, like that zip-line, but you can't deny it wouldn't look like it does without Minecraft. And that third game uses the same textures from Terraria, even if the gameplay is different, hence the term "mod".