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Where should you sell your PC indie game? A marketplace roundup
- tormeh 12y agoIt strikes me as odd that you need a Windows version of your game on Steam. I mean, you should have one, but I didn't know you needed one.
- raddevon 12y agoSeems especially odd since SteamOS is a thing.
- J_Darnley 12y agoI can't comment on whether the application process does require a windows version, why would you cut out 95% of the customers by not having one? See http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey for the stats. You should notice that the full line there is "Your game must be able to run on Windows as a stand-alone application" which I took to mean that you (the developer) must package all the dependencies with your game. Steam would take the reputation hit if it distributed software like Linux does (dependency hell).
- tormeh 12y agoYou mean the author just used "Windows" instead of "OS"? That would be pretty dumb.
- TillE 12y agoGOG Galaxy is going to be a big deal. I think a lot of people underestimate the appeal of automatic updates, easy installs, etc. Desura has a client too, but last time I checked it was terribly clunky to use.
- shmerl 12y ago> GOG: Requires approval That's actually a plus for both users and developers. GOG have high acceptance bar usually quality wise, so it makes each release more notable (i.e. they try to avoid the flood of low quality releases which no one can keep track of). So if you pass the bar - you are likely to get some attention, while on Steam your release can be simply lost in the noise.
- ebetancourt 12y agoIts a really great resource, I hadn't even heard of some of these marketplaces (Itch.io)