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Pier Solar HD, Proven Lands among 75 greenlit games for Steam
Valve accepted 75 more games for distribution on Steam after approval from its community on Steam Greenlight, among which is Pier Solar and the Great Architects HD, Watermelon's remake of the Megadrive RPG. Pier Solar HD, which earned over $230,000 on Kickstarter in December 2012, is joined by a recent crowdfund hopeful, sci-fi sandbox roguelike Proven Lands. In fact, a number of this week's new Steam recruits were once success stories on Kickstarter. Dolphin exam cheating simulator Classroom Aquatic earned over $31,000 earlier this month, Trichotomy's Dog Sled Saga found modest success in May 2013, roguelike Dungeonmans earned over $43,000 in August and MURA Interactive's twin-stick shooter Dubwars received over $34,000 in July. Additionally, Will O'Neill's game about love and depression, Actual Sunlight, was among the group of games added to Steam this week. [Image: Watermelon]
Crowdfund Bookie, July 28 - August 3: Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. This was a busy week in crowdfunding, as the Kickstarter campaigns for Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage, Dungeonmans, Eterium, Project Maiden, Colonisation: Moonbase, Saintly, Salvage Trader and KR-17 ended. Real-time strategy and Syndicate Wars-inspired Satellite Reign hauled in the most money this week ($705,194), and also had the most backers of the campaigns, with 15,029 people funding the game. Salvage Trader, a 2D space adventure game for PC and Mac, boasted the highest average pledge per person, with each funder averaging a $113.20. Check out the results and our fancy charts after the break.
Dungeonmans: Heroic Adventure Roguelike finds funds on Kickstarter
Dungeonmans is a 2D, roguelike adventure game that former AAA developer Jim Shepard has been working on since 2010 – there's a preview ready to roll on Indie DB – and it needs a final financial push to close out development. Shepard asks for $35,000 on Kickstarter, and with 26 days to go, he's already raised $12,000. Dungeonmans' main, unique draw is its Academy, a persistent homebase that players fill with knowledge and artifacts from their adventures. When one character dies, the next Academy graduate takes on some of the intelligence and skill sets from that fallen comrade, and so on down the graduation line. Shepard spent more than nine years in the AAA industry, helping to craft major games such as Quake 4 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, working at Raven Software, Surreal Software, Gearbox Software and BioWare Austin. He's also a career Dungeon Master, which means he probably knows a few things about kicking monster booty and telling an intense tale.
