Steam Greenlight, Valve's new community moderated service, has gone live.
Greenlight allows developers or publishers to post information about their indie games currently in development. The community then vote on which games they would like to come to Steam.
Currently, there are 497 games available to vote on, including popular indie games such as Slender. Community members will also be able to provide feedback on each title listed so developers can choose to have their game reflect these concerns, praises and ideas if they so wish.
Each game will have information, screenshots and aspects each indie game promises to include if their game is given the green light.
Everyone likes a cheap but good game, right? Well Bundle In A Box is a pay-what-you-want gaming bundle with the intention to help new games debut, support charities and help out creators via the Indie Dev Grant.
The Adventure Bundle is currently being advertised, with five games up for grabs for a bargain price. Here's what you can buy:
Gemini Rue
An award winning point-and-click game by Joshua Nuernberger and Wadjet Eye Games, Gemini Rue is a bleak noir-science fiction game where players will take charge of both Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin, and Delta-Six, a man who has woken up in a hospital with no memory.
Ben There, Dan That!
Written and starring Dan Marshall and Ben Ward, Ben There, Dan That is a cartoonish indie title featuring surreal humour, humorous dialogue and some fun animation.
The bundle packages the special edition version of the game, which also includes an eBook sharing the story of the games creation, a non-interactive video storybook, all the cut music that didn't make it into the game, printable posters, an audio recording of Ben stomping around his flat cheering his own name, and a few Dan and Ben ringtones.
Time Gentleman, Please
Time Gentleman, Please! is the award winning sequel to Ben There, Dan That. The game boasts some funny dialogue, cartoon graphics, interesting puzzles and absurdity. Nazi dinosaurs, anyone?
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Diamonds have been stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit, and you've been sent in to help your old partner solve the mystery. Things soon become much more complicated when a theft turns into a kidnapping, then a murder.
An interactive fiction adventure, 1893: A World's Fair Mystery delves into over 500 archival photos of Chicago to bring the fair to life, whilst boasting an impressive thirty hours plus of gameplay. This edition of the game also includes 3 PDF guidebooks.
The Sea Will Claim Everything
An adventure game with an emphasis on characters and storytelling, The Sea Will Claim Everything also includes puzzles, and a cute style.
The game sees you sent on a journey to thwart the sinister Lord Urizen, and cease the misery he is placing on the citizens of Fortunate Isles.
Humble Indie Bundle is a site which allows gamers to pay what they want for one of their featured games. The proceeds from the sale go to charity, whilst the gamer gets a copy of their game for Mac, Windows or Linux. The site has already brought in over $1.4 million dollars in only a few days, but Humble Indie Bundle has now included free soundtracks to all seven independent games for everyone who donates and purchases a copy of one of the games.
The music can be downloaded after the game has been downloaded, and can be found in a link to the right of the platform selection tool on the post-purchase landing page.
Many of these games have excellent accompanying music, with Super Meat Boy and Cave Story getting my thumbs up.
