Steam Next Fest Results

Thank you to everyone who tried the demo for Mech Armada during the Steam Next Fest! It was a blast! Almost 7,000 people have downloaded the demo and 3,165 have played it as of today. About 2,000 of those played more than 20 minutes, with 159 players spending over 3 hours on the demo. I’m…

Steam in China

In this episode of the Deconstructor of Fun podcast (jump to 35m02s) they talk about how they expect Steam’s position in China to get significantly weaker in the future. Let’s unpack that. First, how would that affect us as Indie developers? And second, is that even true? China is important The games industry in China…

Steam in Graphs

There was a recent article in Gamasutra by Danny Weinbaum where he approximated the revenue generated by almost every game in Steam and then used the data to draw some conclusions. I was inspired by it, so I took a stab at recreating and validating the numbers. I wanted to understand not just what the…