Aquaria on STEAM!!

[Alec]

Polite requests on the Steam forums might be cool. I don't know how much of a difference it makes, but I'm sure the more potential customers they know about, the better.

[LMN8R]

I'm glad to hear that you've decided to start trying to communicate with them again!  I already own Aquaria, but the larger audience sure couldn't hurt.

Valve's practices with Steam lately definitely have been questionable though.  First we have the Braid guy Jonathon Blow echoing your sentiments on how hard it is to get in contact with them.  Then Capcom goes and canceles their Steam release of Bionic Commando: Rearmed.  Then one of the PAX 10 guys I talked to said similar things.

Now we have EA games showing up on digital services other than their own EA Downloader - something I didn't expect to happen - yet their games still aren't showing up on Steam despite a great distribution relationship between Valve and EA.


It really sounds like Valve needs to expand - you look at them, 150 spread between Steam, multiple games, and support, compared to a company like Harmonix that has 280 people working on Rock Band and not much else...it gets quite clear why Valve is having such supposed troubles.  In the case of Aquaria, why *WOULDN'T* they want to put it up?  Even if it only attracts a small audience, it's not like they'd lose money from it.

Anyway, good luck in all of this.

[Alec]

Chris and I managed to make some progress on this front.

[Glamador]

Oh goodie!  That's terrific news.  Now if only you can get an advertisement for it on the main startup page like some of the other games on STEAM.

[durrem]

If at all possible, I think you should try to get the 1.1 patch out before you get the game on steam.  Otherwise, there will be a lot of people whining on the steam forums about broken widescreen support.

[silverflagon]

That is brilliant Alec

[Alec]

If at all possible, I think you should try to get the 1.1 patch out before you get the game on steam.  Otherwise, there will be a lot of people whining on the steam forums about broken widescreen support.

Yeah, the version that goes up on Steam will be 1.1.0. (if we do indeed get to do it)

Also I'm hoping to release the patch to the longtime fans who bought the game before that version goes up, but we'll have to see how the timing works out.

[Chibi]

Man, I can't wait until version 1.1.0. Thanks for your hard work on it.

BTW, try to keep the price at 30 dollars, because people love free upgrades, and the mainstream audience isn't used to paying that much for an indy game. (big breath). Thanks 

[Danger Mouse]

I've been leaning a lot towards getting a mac instead of going with continuing support for Microsoft who has definitely let me down with the release of Vista. I definitely will not make that jump to vista. I deal with it on a daily basis fixing peoples computers, and vista is just so annoying. Besides, with an intel based mac I can run both at the same time, even though directx9.0 isn't fully supported yet, but I'm hearing that it's pretty close. Anyways, my whole point is that, if I do go with a mac, I'll most likely just repurchase the game for mac, and that way will already have a version 1.1.0 I'm still yet undecided, but when October rolls around, I'll probably be making that decision final. I'll have one other game to look forward to getting too, and that's Oids.X Man will that bring some great nostalgic memories back for me. My brother and I  use to play that game all the time on our Atari ST's.

[Glamador]

Well Vista is being scrapped I heard.  The next OS they're developing is totally different.   Kind of what they did when Windows ME was such a bust.

[Danger Mouse]

A 9 Billion Dollar mistake if you ask me. Hopefully Windows 7 is A LOT better. Again I'm really liking the direction that Apple is making.

[Chibi]

Vista is really unreliable: when the phasing out of Windows XP began, I immediately bought another copy so that if I get a new laptop, I'll be able to stick with my favorite os. (It's only my favorite because it's so familiar; if I wasn't so used to Windows, I would have immediately bought a Mac) 

[silverflagon]

Well Vista is being scrapped I heard.  The next OS they're developing is totally different.   Kind of what they did when Windows ME was such a bust.

Yes and not before time either, I am so relieved that I won't have to use it and lose my new hardware, damn that man

[smakian]

Chris and I managed to make some progress on this front.

Awesome awesome awesome....so on to more practical matters...

any thoughts about achievements? 

[Glamador]

WARNING - Spoilers ahoy

Aquire all Treasures - 30 points
Aquire Fish Form - 10 points
Aquire Nature Form - 10 points SECRET
Aquire Energy Form - 10 points
Aquire Spirit Form - 10 points SECRET
Aquire Beast Form - 10 points SECRET
Aquire Sun Form - 10 points SECRET
Aquire Dual Form - 10 points SECRET
Bind 50 Objects - 15 points
Meet Mia - 50 points - SECRET
Aquire all Pets - 15 points
Reflect 100 projectiles - 15 points
Why do they stare into those glowing orbs? - 5 points