Where should you sell your PC indie game? A marketplace roundup

Re:Where should you sell your PC indie game? A marketplace r... by tormeh on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:07AM (#8482187)

It strikes me as odd that you need a Windows version of your game on Steam. I mean, you should have one, but I didn't know you needed one.

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Re:Where should you sell your PC indie game? A marketplace r... by J_Darnley on Monday October 20, 2014 @03:27PM (#8483994)

I can't comment on whether the application process does require a windows version, why would you cut out 95% of the customers by not having one? See http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey for the stats.

You should notice that the full line there is "Your game must be able to run on Windows as a stand-alone application" which I took to mean that you (the developer) must package all the dependencies with your game. Steam would take the reputation hit if it distributed software like Linux does (dependency hell).

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Re:Where should you sell your PC indie game? A marketplace r... by tormeh on Monday October 20, 2014 @06:33PM (#8484908)

You mean the author just used "Windows" instead of "OS"? That would be pretty dumb.

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Re:Where should you sell your PC indie game? A marketplace r... by raddevon on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:47AM (#8482365)

Seems especially odd since SteamOS is a thing.

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