WiiWare?

[Zoom]

With WiiWare launched now, would there ever be a chance you guys would port Aquaria over to the Wii?  I think it would be awesome and would definitely broaden the player base for this game.

[affliction]

Nintendo has placed a 43mB limit on the size of WiiWare titles, so this probably won't happen without some crazy voodoo.

[Triquick]

It has been over 6 months since the game has come out.  Has there been any other word about trying to re-launch on Steam, or even lower the price?

[Alec]

Steam is up to Valve, and they haven't got back to us yet.

[Triquick]

I'm sure you guys are busy and I can't know all that you are  doing to promote Aquaria but I figure the two of you would be calling/e-mailing/posting on the steam forums to get a response from Vavle.

Hell, even creating a thread on the Steam Support Forums on the lack of response might be enough. The whole Steam system was setup to support a game like yours.

[Alec]

We haven't been doing much to promote the game lately. I have the energy and desire to do a lot more, but its not really clear to me what I can do to help move things along.

We've talked to two different people at Valve about getting on steam, both were interested and both ended up with us waiting for them to get back to us for over a couple months.

I don't know that posting on the support forums myself, would help.

[Triquick]

I can only give you my personal opinion, but it looks like you are dealing with a failure of communication on Valve’s part. This is a shame because Steam seems the perfect vehicle for Aquaria and has worked wonders for other indie games.  The situation really only gives the both of you two options: move on or make some noise to get some sort of response out of Valve.

It can easily just be a post on the General Topic or Suggestion forum in the following format:

Title: Aquaria on Steam
Body:

Hi, I Alex on and released the game Aquaria (some background information),  we won the following awards <list awards>, where featured in <stuff like Destroid’s Indie nation articles> and entered in the following indie competitions <Stuff like that PAX thing>.

We have talked to <list the two Valve people> but have not heard back in multiple mounts. This is a shame because Aquaria is a excellent game that features <list features, ie being a metroidvanina, 2d artwork, etc>

If any one else is interested in please visit our website and try the demo <link>

The thing is you’re already NOT on Steam, so what do you have to loose?  Maybe a few of the million of people on Steam will give it a shot, maybe even more will start posting in the thread, or (best hope) the admin pass it up the chain in Valve.  The sad part is no matter how good your game is if you'r not pro-active nothing will happen.

[Glamador]

Despite the grammar mistakes, what Triquick here says is true.  No matter how good your work is, if nobody sees it you won't get any attention.  Now you've already been featured in magazines and blogs and gotten awards so it's not like you're an unknown element anymore, but that doesn't mean the Steam execs know about it.

----EDIT----
I MADE A SPELLING MISTAKE!

[Alec]

The guy in charge of adding new content to Steam knows about it.

[Glamador]

He's bottom of the food chain.  Go higher!

[Triquick]

Or make some noise in the Steam/Game community. Like Glamador said, go beyond that Steam person directly to the community.  Do something! Don't just sit there, nothing will happen if you don't make a effort.

Come on, e-mail  Reverend Anthony from Destructiod.com. His whole series of articles, Indie Nation, started with your game.

http://www.destructoid.com/indie-nation-1-aquaria-64079.phtml

I'm sure he would love to hear from you, even more so ifyou are having problems getting on Steam. A quick up date on a site like Destrudtiod would go a long way.

[Alec]

We've made an effort to contact the people the Valve who run Steam. Beyond that, I don't think annoying them will help.

[Triquick]

Listen, every one hates assholes. But you know what? They get stuff done.

You guys pretty much have three options:

1.   Hire a PR, marketing and managing guy to your team. You’re already admitted to not know what to do next to promote the game, so farm it off on some one else who does.
2.   Appeal to the Gamer/Steam Community and go beyond just the single contact person.
3.   Keep floundering around and wait for a response.

I’m going to be brutal honest: You’re coming off really whinny here. It’s like you have no drive to actually make money off your product. It took time and effort to code/design the game, why should PR/Sales be any different?

[Poobah]

Despite the grammar mistakes, what Triquick here says is true.  No matter how good you're work is, if nobody sees it you won't get any attention.

[Alec]

I don't think I'm whining, I think I'm telling you how it is.

I would like to work with a business person. Right now I don't have the ability to make that happen. I'm pretty frustrated with how things are running right now, and I'm trying to change it. There are a few options.