What are you voting for on Greenlight?

[Mánagarmr]

Greenlight is such a horrible hodgepodge of steaming piles of crap, ripoffs, obvious fakes and fanservice games. Mixed in amongst them are a few pearls. I'm curious what pearls you have found.

Mine are, so far:

- Project Giana
- Project Zomboid
- Auralux

[Castruccio]

Cardinal Quest 2 and Frayed Knights.  I'm a big fan of RPG's, especially old school ones, and these two developers are both class acts.  Also Age of Decadence.

[madcow]

Not necessarily all games I'll get as that depends on price, waiting for deals, etc and in general being fairly generous with up voting. I've tried to stick to mac games, but a few like La-Mulana aren't.  The ones I've up-voted are:

La-Mulana (It's supposed to be the Dark Souls of 2d exploration platformers)
Midnight Mansion HD (looks similar to La-Mulana except runs natively on my comp)
Tower Climb (I don't know much about it, but looked like a similar sort of game with spelunky bits thrown in)


Mutant Mudds (porting from DS, pixelated platforming goodness, supposed to be good)
Project Black Sun (metroidvania type game that looked interesting, why not)
Phantasmburbia (Not completely sure what this is, but it seemed cool)

Project Zomboid
NEO Scavenger
Signal Ops (this looks weird, unique, and interesting - why not)
Expeditions: Conquisitor (turn based tactical battle goodness)

[LaughingThesaurus]

I will vote up anything that genuinely looks high quality, isn't a complete ripoff, and that the poster actually owns (I saw the Technic Launcher up, put up by someone who didn't make it. Whoopsie.)
I will unabashedly vote down anything that basically looks like it's made in game maker, or that doesn't look at all solid in its gameplay.

[Mánagarmr]

I will vote up anything that genuinely looks high quality, isn't a complete ripoff, and that the poster actually owns (I saw the Technic Launcher up, put up by someone who didn't make it. Whoopsie.)
I will unabashedly vote down anything that basically looks like it's made in game maker, or that doesn't look at all solid in its gameplay.

I approve.

[Aklyon]

I'll probably look through the stuff that has appeared on it soon enough, but from the first or so day, I've upvoted:

Age of Decadence (looks pretty neat)
3079 (I have it, its interestingish)
Platformines (the free beta version awhile back was fun)
Frayed Knights (For the humor)
Kenshi (I have it, its interesting, if rather obviously alpha right now)
Immortal Defense (Demo was fun, but I'd forgotten about it until I'd seen it a day or two ago. its a TD.)
Gnomoria & Towns (One I don't have, one I do, both are nifty town buildificators)
Receiver (Seen someone play it, looks pretty neat for a 7 day fps challenge game)
Some RPG (yay, parody?)
Kinetic Void (Kickstarted it, we need more interesting space games)
WazHack (Because its a fun roguelike)
8BitMMO (It was fun before and there wasn't that much, with all that new stuff it should be even better. I could be wrong though.)
Project Giana (Looks neat)
DLC Quest (Looks silly)

[Kahuna]

I was going to ask this myself!
I up voted games that seem to have potential and look interesting.
Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox | Yay it's funded now
Project Zomboid
Inquisitor
99 Levels To Hell
Kenshi
Dungeon Dashers
Forge
Underrail
Swords and Sorcery - Underworld

EDIT:
The Epic Space Game

[Volatar]

I personally put in a vote for Star Sonata, a already successful F2P MMO that has been around for years.

[LaughingThesaurus]

I have a bit of a question about greenlight, actually. There was some concern I heard about people just making accounts and upvoting their own things, or whatever. Can you actually vote for things if you have an account without any games on it? I know Steam doesn't let you add friends if you have no games, but that should really be a requirement for voting too, if it isn't already. Just, something to make sure you're a legitimate voter.

[Volatar]

It requires a LOT of votes to get your game accepted. You would have to create bots to do the voting even if there is no such requirement.

[Aklyon]

I have a bit of a question about greenlight, actually. There was some concern I heard about people just making accounts and upvoting their own things, or whatever. Can you actually vote for things if you have an account without any games on it? I know Steam doesn't let you add friends if you have no games, but that should really be a requirement for voting too, if it isn't already. Just, something to make sure you're a legitimate voter.

Not sure, but to post a game/concept you have to have a valid account. From the about page:

What do I need in order to submit my game?
You'll need a valid and non-limited Steam account (yes, that means you'll need to own a game on Steam). Then, you'll need to fill out the submission form, including some information about you and your game. The submission will require:

• A square branding image (similar to a box cover) to represent your game in lists and search
  
• At least 1 video showing off your game or presenting your concept
• At least 4 screenshots or images
• A written description of the game along with tentative system requirements

[LaughingThesaurus]

It requires a LOT of votes to get your game accepted. You would have to create bots to do the voting even if there is no such requirement.

Game developers who really want their games on steam could do that at their own risk, though. And, well, if they didn't get caught, that could cause a bit of harm to other developers who more deserve to be noticed.

[keith.lamothe]

Doing that without substantial risk of being caught would be tricky.  Get caught would be heavily, heavily disastrous to a company for whom getting on steam was important (most of the companies big enough to not mind would be big enough to not have to go through greenlight, I imagine; I mean it's not like Activision will have to run the next CoD through it).

[LaughingThesaurus]

Tricky, but not impossible.
Well, I really was mostly curious if measures were there to prevent that. It's not like it's a serious threat, no, but I got thinking about ways to get around it. The alternative being, indies shout out to communities elsewhere to vote their game up (For instance, Yogventures), but TB had a mailbox addressing that. Nothing to be done about that, and honestly, they've probably at least gotten a look at the game already and know that they want it, so that's not even exploitative at all. That's what the whole voting system is for already!

[RCIX]

I will vote up anything that genuinely looks high quality, isn't a complete ripoff, and that the poster actually owns (I saw the Technic Launcher up, put up by someone who didn't make it. Whoopsie.)
I will unabashedly vote down anything that basically looks like it's made in game maker, or that doesn't look at all solid in its gameplay.

You would downvote Spelunky? How dare you D:<