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Steam/Fooldom Come sale, Greenlight Fee 50% off!

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:10:44 +0000

As usual, Steam is hosting a sale. However, let's start with a more useful piece of information: The Steam Greenlight Submission Fee is going for $50 (50% off).

Also as usual, I'm trading a lifetime Fooldom Come subscription for any game off of my Steam wishlist. Fooldom Come is a passport for benefits in my BYOND games which currently include Flesh And Drone, Fused Finale, Gears & Peers, Grim Prospects, GrimTunnel, MeanderGall, Occupied Forces, PathWrath 2 and Wrangle, Warp And Weep. I also failed to return Fooldom Come to its normal price after the last sale so I'll leave it at $3 (66% off) for now.

(For anyone interested in trading, I also have a copy of Frozen Synapse which is currently going for roughly $6.25.)

75%+ Off:
Madballs in Babo:Invasion $1.24 ($3.74 four pack)
Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon $1.24
Critter Crunch $1.74
Offspring Fling $1.99
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity $2.49
Cargo Commander $2.49
Gridrunner Revolution $2.49
Gatling Gears $2.49
Cave Story+ $2.49
Serious Sam 2 $2.49
Serious Sam 3: BFE $9.99 ($29.99 four pack)

Just plain cheap:
~~The Basement Collection $1.99~~ Gifted!
Adventures of Shuggy $2.49
1000 Amps $2.49
Titan Attacks! $2.49
Gateways $2.99
Dynamite Jack $2.99

Steam Halloween Sale / October Challenge Sale

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:46:21 +0000

Steam is holding a sale until the 31st. It seems they're foregoing achievements again, but there's a theme. They're all horror/supernatural games.

Here are some inexpensive highlights I've found:
$1.99 Nation Red ($5.99 for 4-pack)
$2.49 Adventures of Shuggy
$3.39 They Bleed Pixels

As usual, I'll offer a lifetime Fooldom Come subscription to a key of choice if anyone cares to gift me something off my wishlist.

I've also set the Fooldom Come price (normally $9) to minimum ($3) just to see if I can beat the October Challenge at the last second. I don't know if it counts, but I'll likely look like an idiot pretending it does on Google+. ;)

Steam indie bundles + separated titles

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:58:16 +0000

Steam is again offering the indie bundles which were available for a day each during their summer sale. According to a recent podcast episode from The Rumble Pack, there's a trick where you can choose to store a bundle as a gift and then have its individual games in your inventory. (I have yet to try it myself.)

Mayhem Intergalactic is 75% off (+ FB giveaway)

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:54:10 +0000

I recently received this in my email. For those who need a refresher, Chris Pelling is Crispy and Mayhem Intergalactic is Yet Another Generic Space-Age Conquest Game.

Hey there, Mayhem Intergalactic fans!

As you may have noticed, things have been a little quiet lately at Mayhem HQ. The sirens only sound every hour or so, and it's been days since we had a decent alien invasion to contend with. Well, all that is about to change...

First up, we have the impending release of Mayhem Intergalactic v1.3, which you (loyal readers) are learning about first! While the list of changes isn't finalised yet, I can confirm that v1.3 will contain some UI conveniences, a smattering of audio improvements, and miscellaneous bug fixes. More importantly, this will be the first version to support languages other than English.

I'll announce the supported languages closer to release. Let me know if you're keen to see a particular language in the list.

Secondly, you may be interested to know about the massive 75% OFF SALE which is on right now. Get your fresh cheap Mayhem right here. And if you're keen for Steam, then do I have a link for you.

Buying direct does ensure that more of your money reaches me, the hungry, hungry developer. Either way, you've got until the 24th of July, so look sharp!

If you've already got your copy, why not gift one to a friend?

Three! Do you like Mayhem Intergalactic? Are you on Facebook? Have you ever wondered how to combine these facts into a delicious fact smoothie, possibly winning a FREE COPY of your favourite Mayhem Intergalactic game in the process? Click here and all your questions will be answered, on Mayhem Intergalactic's shiny new Facebook page.

Once the page has 100 likes, one lucky Facebook fan will get a free copy of the game. Keep it, give it away, your choice.

Finally, I know there are some of you running Mac OS X or Linux who've been hanging out for a port to your platform. I'm pleased to announce that porting the game to other platforms is my next priority after releasing v1.3. If you're interested in participating in a Mac or Linux beta test, drop me a line.

That's all for now - stay tuned! Same Mayhem time, same Mayhem channel.

Cheers,
Chris Pelling
Inventive Dingo

Steam sales

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:06:19 +0000

I'm less relevant around here, but I'm keeping with my tradition of trading lifetime Fooldom Come subscriptions for lone games off my Steam wishlist. Fooldom Come is a passport to my games such as Flesh And Drone, Fused Finale, Gears & Peers, MeanderGall, PathWrath 2, Wrangle, Warp And Weep and more.

Details are included in the passport's hub forum. Even if you're not interested in Fooldom Come, it might serve as a handy list of cheap game recommendations.

Fooldom Come is not a game or developer resource. It therefore doesn't get automatically included in the main forums and I'm guessing this doesn't qualify as an event. Apologies if this is now considered spam. Either way, general steam sale discussion is welcome.

Here's the hub forum post again.

Steam Summer 2012 -> Fooldom Come deal

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:35:42 +0000

I have not been very active lately, but another Steam sale means another opportunity to trade lifetime Fooldom Come subscriptions for games on my Steam wishlist. Normally, my multipass is $9, but a single gift sent to my ACWraith account on Steam or Gmail grants access for much less. Please put the BYOND key of the recipient in the message.

The following are a selection of the least expensive options. For more, view the entire wishlist.

Wizorb $1.79
Madballs in... Babo:Invasion $2 or gift from a 4-pack
Nation Red $2.49 or a gift from a 4-pack
Cargo - The Quest For Gravity $2.49
1000 Amps $2.49
DETOUR $2.49
Titan Attacks $2.49
Gridrunner Revolution $2.49
Space Giraffe $2.49
Data Jammers: FastForward $2.50

Dynamite Jack $2.99
Offspring Fling $3.19
Serious Sam 2 $3.39

Costume Quest $3.74
Stacking $3.74
All Zombies Must Die $3.99 or gift from a $5.99 bundle

Insaniquarium! Deluxe $4.99
Gatling Gears $4.99
Tachyon: The Fringe $4.99
The Dejobaan Complete Pack $5 (worth 2 lifetime FC subscriptions)

BEWARE of Steam bundles. They do not always grant giftable copies.

Golemizer closing after 4 years.

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 02:49:03 +0000

Dave Toulouse has some comments on the closing of his free MMORPG Golemizer that I thought might serve other ORPG developers.

Indie Underdog Pack. Last Day! Just $1

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:31:02 +0000

Today is the last day of the Indie Underdog Pack. (Try the 8-Bit Funding page if the main site is slow.) Some developers gathered to sell their old games in order to help crowdfund new ones. Honestly, they appear to be far from their goal at the moment. However, the bundle reward is immediate so you don't have to worry about not getting your loot. You can get 6 DRM-free games for a dollar.

I bought mainly for Koya Rift. It's sort of a procedurally generated, sidescrolling shooter with a dash of base defense. I've also heard good things about Infernal Edge (which is included in The Best Of Lazy Brain).

MeanderGall version 3

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:32:02 +0000

Updating other libraries along the way, I spent about a month working on a failed game-in-a-week and a puzzle generating library just to realize I should create a certain container class library first. After building a giant backlog of social network posts and YouTube videos, I decided to update something that works with what I have instead.

For those who don't know, MeanderGall is an action game in which players both cooperate and compete to collect personal goals along random paths with enemies wearing them down. There is a timer that works like a tug of war. The player doing the best can fend off the loss condition by continuing to reach goals. The game is won when this champion completes enough goal collections.

Players are thralls who wield their hearts as mauls in the hopes becoming The Squall in order to defeat The Pall. And it's all for their meandering gall.

_{The little jerk took a potshot and hid while I took a screenshot.}

The most noticeable changes can probably felt with the controls.

Players now slide along walls when there's viable space.
Properly charged mauls can now be steered by holding a maul button and a direction without having to keep track of where the player is facing.
Bawling for allies with the keyboard now uses a wider cone so it's easier to target nearby thralls.
Bawling in general now provides audio/visual feedback.

Meanwhile, the Pall have been rebalanced:

They fire into walls less often. ;)
Their damage no longer scales with the number of players.
Their number of projectiles no longer scales with the number of players.

Other minor changes include:

The inner peace room now features a giant symbol instead of extra walls so it's easy to recognize.
The forum link now points to the hub forum rather than the broken blog forum. (I suppose I'll have to do the same in other projects.)
I added a link to my Google+ page in the credits.
I added an extra link to Typodermic Fonts since that's the site Ray Larabie tends to focus on. There's a lot of free fonts for both personal and commercial use to entice you into buying something later.

This latest version should also boot up faster thanks to switching to my BSP Maze and Directional Grid libraries. Prim BSP and Prim Grid should be considered obsolete. (I hid them from the search a while ago.) The new libraries are more suited to being extended and I've been providing updates.

Dragon Ball Z - The Battle - Metal Version

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:07:33 +0000

A guitarist I'm subscribed to on YouTube asked that this video be shared and I thought someone around here might appreciate it. I tend to enjoy his playing, but it's been so long that I don't remember if I've ever heard the original.