What are you voting for on Greenlight?

[LaughingThesaurus]

Spelunky looks pretty darn professional, and I loved that game. Iji is a gamemaker game, but certainly doesn't look it. It's a downright professional product, in my eyes, in terms of quality. However, like, a game like Jumper Redux is really very close to my threshold just because of its low-res non-stylized tiles and clumsy UI and menus and stuff.

[Mánagarmr]

I don't think I've played Spelunky...yet...

[Aklyon]

Iji is also one of the few games that have an alternate bananagun ending. (Or it was like a bananagun, don't remember exactly)

[RCIX]

I don't think I've played Spelunky...yet...

Well what are you waiting for?

[LaughingThesaurus]

Iji is also one of the few games that have an alternate bananagun ending. (Or it was like a bananagun, don't remember exactly)

Banana Gun to finish off the final boss gets a different line from him. The Massacre also gets an alternate line from him.
Iji is also one of the only games that can make me cry. It's gotta be one of my favorite free games.

[Coppermantis]

Right now I've voted up Bionite: Origin, an RTS/FPS Hybrid. Other than that, not much.

[Kahuna]

I was going to check what's "Spelunky" but Greenlight has been disabled!
It says "Coming Soon"

[LaughingThesaurus]

Check out RCIX's link and just play it for a while. I remember I died like 100 times before I finally won the first time.

[Aklyon]

Greenlight is now less of a mess.
At least unless there are people that want to throw $100 at Child's Play charity to put up a joke submission. The fee is not retroactive.

[LaughingThesaurus]

Oh, that's great news. No more silly joke submissions.

Cue the tears of lots of "prospective indie developers" who made a game without a budget and literally have no money to put towards Greenlight... because they had none to put toward their game. But, I suppose that's what the system's for, partially.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Oh, that's great news. No more silly joke submissions.

Cue the tears of lots of "prospective indie developers" who made a game without a budget and literally have no money to put towards Greenlight... because they had none to put toward their game. But, I suppose that's what the system's for, partially.

Yeah, the tears are quite numerous from the quick scans I did. Sheesh...people...

[Mánagarmr]

I find it to be quite awesome. If you can't fork $100 then you're honestly way too poor to be developing in the first place.

[zebramatt]

Wise move in principle, I'd say, although you'd probably net the same effect with $30, to be honest.

[keith.lamothe]

I imagine only first-time indies would have trouble raising $100 for the submission, and even with them they can probably find enough fans (direct distribution is still a thing!) to chip in enough to make it happen.

$50 might have been sufficient, but I don't think $100 is at all unreasonable.  I think it helps set a good initial baseline of "are you serious about this?"  Not just for the submission, but the whole process of working with Valve to get the game up on the store, etc.

[LaughingThesaurus]

^ That's what I was thinking. With 100$, at least you have some sort of income. What kind of indie, right away, quits their job and starts making games for a living without any source of income?