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Operation Tell Valve All The Things, 3.0

Operation Tell Valve All The Things, 3.0

I surveyed a bunch of Steam developers and they told me how they feel about recent developments.

How to scientifically survey all of Steam's developers

If you ever wanted to survey every Steam developer in existence, here's how you might do that.

Steam Discovery 2.0, Stegosaurus Tail 2.0

Steam Discovery 2.0, Stegosaurus Tail 2.0

Our game Defender's Quest [http://www.defendersquest.com/1] will be five years old in just a few days, which is a good opportunity for a retrospective on how Steam has changed in that time. On November 8th of this year, Steam launched its much anticipated Discovery update 2.0

Supporting a single-player Indie RPG for Four Years

Supporting a single-player Indie RPG for Four Years

It's hard to believe, but on January 19th 2016, four whole years will have passed since we first released [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/defenders-quest-is-released/] our game Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten [http://www.defendersquest.com/1] . What's even harder to believe is that we're still actively supporting it with

I Wish Upon a Steam

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I Wish Upon a Steam

I write about Steam [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/tag/steam/] a lot, because they hold my fate in their hands like a tiny bird. (Photo by Chris Yarzab [https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisyarzab/], link [https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisyarzab/8074925450/in/photolist-diy71A-ajB9tp-4qMdBp-b56P1e-9QBnfy-9QBmBC-jzZxLe-74RvCN-bancLz-NYNVB-9QBog3-tCeRa-89Dr6d-26LDkx-84kQDT-6YTsCN-84oTdS-ff4ULS-6VSHX2-38x8Eb-3vg1r-6pE8r8-6pJg2A-amryiH-6pE8q4-2pHNuS-88RCYx-cxTsZm-ac2Hr1-b5at9Z-2JXgSt-49VyuH-8yRdA

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Brave NewSteam World

Over two years ago I wrote an article called The Holy Grail of Digital Distribution [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-holy-grail-of-digital-distribution/] where I described what an ideal digital game store might look like. In the last two weeks, Steam launched their long-anticipated storefront overhaul (which I'll call "NewSteam"), and I think

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Was Localizing Defender's Quest Worth It?

Let's find out. First of all, our total sales to date, across all PC portals for the original Defender's Quest [http://www.defendersquest.com/1/] are: $656,000 USD gross 195,000 units sold Next, our monthly sales on Steam: (No y-axis label because Steam doesn't like us being too

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The Stegosaurus Tail: when "The Long Tail" grows spikes.

You may have heard of "The Long Tail [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail]." For games, it means your sales start off strong and quickly taper off. This force drives the retail marketing cycle -- launch a game to extreme hype, sell it like crazy, then immediately abandon it

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Steam Linux Sale : Results

Shortly after we published our giant sales report, Defender's Quest: By the Number, part 2 [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/186940/defenders_quest_by_the_numbers_.php] , the Steam Linux client officially went public and was accompanied by a site-wide sale. The Linux sale featured every single Linux-compatible game

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Defender's Quest: By the Numbers

[http://www.files.fortressofdoors.com/images/tdrpg_dragon_fire.gif] So, in case you haven't heard yet, Gamasutra posted our first ~70 days of sales stats as a featured article today: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/168303/defenders_quest_by_the_numbers.php [http://www.blogger.com/goog_994198299]