Steam : Buff(y)ing a new wave of developers with "software" downloads ..

It used to be said unto each generation a games developer is born ..., right now there are millions of potentials all ready to develop games and save the world from boredom hell. The only thing stopping them is training ... Und so our Gabe "Mr Giles" Newell and Valve have decided to buff and train these millions of potentials ...  in the best possible Joss Whedon meme way ..of course..

Check out the "software" and get developing now, this is an awesome idea, can Steam do for potential games developers what Joss Whedon and Buffy did for potential slayers ... or will no one give a Firefly till the whole thing gets cancelled ? 

Right, time to make that million selling App with GameMaker: Studio ....monkeys prepare to hit those keyboards ..first one to come up with an idea gets the banana...

Can Steam take on the likes of Microsoft and Adobe with their own more widely available and established software design suites ... ?

It is great to see Steam push out development tools, the finest games are made by gamers and not corporate entities. Even if one bright spark/Spike out there realises his or hers games development potential as a result, then the whole world of gaming will be richer for it and we can dig ourselves out of the Hell Mouth of sequels and remakes spewed out and regurgitated constantly by the present gen of now past by sell date developers ..and this should keep Steam relevant in a world of indie coded Apps and stores ...from beneath you it devours... indeed..

peace out...

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2012 video game sales PWNED by Independent games developers

So it is video gaming season again , where every one releases their 4s, 5s, 6s and 7s .Consider anyone picking up Assassins Creed 3, or Far Cry 3, Halo 4 or Res Evil 6 is likely to have picked up previous incarnations of these ageing franchises. The quality of these games may never have been in doubt, sales will be sky high but when you have finished liberating America, tangled with tigers, waved goodbye to Cortana (she's not real ...really!) and finally got to run and gun down zombies in a Res Evil game you may start to realise that you just spent around £300 to play last years updates of the year before`s AAA titles... gamer  you have been FIFA`d !

I just finished pre ordering most of this seasons AAA games out of force of habit more than desire. Then I clicked on Hell Yeah on Steam and to put it simply I am far more interested in trying out this relatively small release than any of the big name games . And you know there are literally hundreds of such releases, across the PC,iOS, Android ,PSN,Xbox Live in fact there are thousands of gaming gems to discover.

The games to be most excited about this year come from a completely different angle altogether . For 2012 is the first gaming year in which what we refer to as Independent coded games , whether from teams of one like  Super Hexagon, or those with old skool backing like Arkedo ... are out headlining the traditionally published AAA fair that forms our staple gaming diets. 

You can see the power of the indie developer across platforms. The wise are already aware of this of course, with Steam heavily promoting indie games : They know you get that stale I own those games already feeling every time a Steam sale comes along, this year the Autumn and Winter sales are going to be flooded with Independent coded games ..giving you the choice or me the choice that was always missing on Steam's catalogue. 

Throw in Desura and the inde game pushers Humble Bundle, Indie Royal, Indie Gala, Be Mine, Green Man Gaming, Get Games and you have the largest and most exciting push of independent gaming and gaming content in gaming history going on.

This is THE most exciting time for emerging game coding talent in the history of gaming ,if  gamers continue to support it soon very soon Mario, Snake et al will be facing forced and well deserved retirement along with their developers.

Even the Nintendo Wii U is focusing on having a large number of it's 50 game launch sourced from Independent games developers and released as download store purchases.

Sony too will move many an indie classic through PSN as will the hoodied Microsoft guys through Xbox Live...and these developers are not afraid to move units across platforms.

And that is not even including the Windows 8 store launch that is just weeks away. 

What is more the majority of these games will cost around the same as an iOS or Android App. So in these austere times they will suit gamers and still generate more income for publishers and developers than traditional AAA games .

But there is something else going on here, for the first time in a long time a game coded by 1 guy or girl can occupy the same amount of web traffic , gaming time and garner better reviews and vibes than multimillion dollar 100 plus teams coding AAA games in plush campuses..

Add to this the growing demand for classic games whether DOS classics from GOG, or HD remakes of Saturn, Genesis or Dreamcast legends.. there has never been so much choice out there and coincidentally competition for the AAA publishers . 

In 2012 the year the Independent gaming smart bomb dropped , Assassins Creed 3 , Halo 4 , Black Ops 2 won't so much be facing off against each other they will be facing off against all the independents across iOS, Android, Xbox Live, Steam, Desura, Flash, Java and even the humble browser based and not so humble Facebook gaming phenomena ...

So whilst it may be cool to liberate the US of A from Imperialists whose descendants cannot even translate what Magna Carta means, or to save alien worlds from fluttering droid invasions ...you have done all that before and in 2012 you will get more gaming bang for your buck from any of the 100s of independently coded games.And you will buy these across platforms whether PC , iOS, Android, PSN or Xbox Live... And a lot of them like Hell Yeah! FTL or Super Hexagon may even bring a smile to your game face as you realise gaming just evolved and you gamer... you are evolving too... and...and...and....

and it is all thanks in no small part to our old Uncle Steve surfing the wave for us ... 

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You could be playing: Black Mesa: free awesome and here to make you feel the Source!

Every hip cat digs that Black Mesa is dope and now is the time ,now is the time to stop polishing those sneakers with your girl/boy friend`s tooth brush, put down your FIFA playin joypad and git with the awesome and totally free Black Mesa Mod for Half Life.

For this righteous game is what you should be playin` right now out of R E S P E C ..T for the Black Mesa Mod Team ..  

And here my peoples is a little of the game play running on Intel HD3000 powered Lenovo X220T at 1024 by 768 ..for those who just have to know these details ... I left out the opening, which your FIFA playing casual gamers may not be down with, the opening of Half Life is one of THE greatest game opening sequences of all time. 

As for the game, it is a lot more scary than I remember and still the finest PC FPS ever made. 

The great FPS games are those that are as austere as a Tory government with minimal ammo and health made available just as you are about to gasp your last breath after facing off against devilish AI enemies or some one eyed purple people eater. The way to play this game is to set it at the hardest play setting, then take risks , take the hits and challenge yourself to make it to the next health or power charge or ammo pack ...like you do with the old Doom .. this FIFA and Call Of Duty fans is the Zone for FPS games , very few have it but those that do from the original Doom, Half Life to Goldeneye ... well they are amongst the greatest games ever made and Black Mesa is a totally awesomely free update of one the finest gaming experiences ever made.. 

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You could be playing: Retro City Rampage...spending all your life livin in a retro gangsta paradise !

There was I waxing lyrical about the indie gaming evolution tsunami taking down the  AAA sequels to lasts years sequel releases from the usual suspects. When out of nowhere I come across this gem of a game called RetroCityRampage, releasing today* on Steam, PSN, PS Vita and coming soon to Xbox Live and Wii Ware... ( and who knows even iOS and Android eventually) : If you can watch the following video without buying the game then go back to Fifa and COD duties... Everyone else, this is is what I mean re independent game developers PWNING 2012. I am looking forward to playing X COM Enemy   Unknown and Dishonored this week, but I am going absolutely Donkey Kong over waiting for my RetroCityRampage key to be delivered ... cannot wait to try out the virtual boy section on a ST1080 hmd and the chiptune muzak is to die for .. brings back memories of the 80s when I lived with my pet alligator on my go faster boat ..and you could build Kelly Lebroc with a Memotech MTX512 and some teen age angst...

and here is a little game play at 1920 by 1200 using an Intel HD3000 Windows 8 Lenovo X220T .. at the moment I cannot stop smiling ...so serious game play to follow ....

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