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Airship Dragoon Has Been Greenlit

by Steve Acaster · 06/13/2014 (12:28 pm) · 31 comments

Just a quick blog post to say that Airship Dragoon has been Greenlit and that I am now an accredited Steam developer. many thanks to everyone who voted! In the end I got through with around 6500 votes.

www.yorkshirerifles.com/random/airshipdragoon_lit.jpg

Here's a little graph of what happened, the first curve is all my own publicity - what little I managed of it - until indiegamestand.com featured my in a Pay-What-You-Want deal and did an interview at some god forsaken time of night for the UK. Usually I'm bright and bushy tailed at 3am but not that night. ;)

www.yorkshirerifles.com/random/thanks_igs.jpg



IGS were extremely helpful and are nice blokes with a real drive for indie games. I would recommend that any indie developer contact them, regardless of whether you need a profile boost or not.

After that was the www.indieroyale.com push where Airship Dragoon was featured in a bundle along side a number of other indie games. The Indie Royale is Desura based, but are more than happy to have your greenlight links and steam keys available for player choice (as does IndieGameStand).

The final jump was from the Steampunk2 bundle with groupees.com which saw an eclectic mix of games, music, comics and film.

I also found some publicity from a hardcore strategy site Grogheads who gave me an interview - grogheads.com/?p=4510 - as well as a lot of feedback.

I am currently working on the next update which has various tweaks and additions based on customer feedback and a fix for a potentially critical bug I accidentally introduced in the last update. (derp!) After this has been released I will begin to look at integrating the Steam client into Airship Dragoon.

In other Greenlit news, Frayed Knights: The Skull of Smakh-Daon also got through. Whilst Jay may have moved on to use another game engine for his future development, Frayed Knights was created with TGE 1.5.2.
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#1
06/13/2014 (12:37 pm)
Congrats, Steve ! Nice to see it finally happens !
#2
06/13/2014 (1:24 pm)
Hmm, I don't think you worked hard enough. Go back and do it over again ;)

But seriously, grats man.
#3
06/13/2014 (1:51 pm)
Congratulations Steve!
#4
06/13/2014 (1:55 pm)
I tried to find someone screaming YEAH!!! (without the f-word). However this is all I found:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmlR5eG9zP4

So in my heart I am yelling F-YEAH! without the F, but even with the F it seems appropriate.

Quote:Hmm, I don't think you worked hard enough. Go back and do it over again ;)
That would be "Airship Dragoon II". ;)

Edit:
Here is something more fitting:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG_6CopW9GQ
#5
06/13/2014 (1:55 pm)
Congrats Steve!
#7
06/13/2014 (4:19 pm)
Congrats from me as well :o)
#8
06/13/2014 (4:26 pm)
Congrats Steve, nice to see that! :)
#9
06/13/2014 (5:11 pm)
Weeeee congrats!!!
#10
06/13/2014 (5:20 pm)
Thanks all.

Demolishun, love the expression on the Alsatian's face when the lamb talks.
#11
06/13/2014 (7:55 pm)
Congrats Steve!
#12
06/14/2014 (2:05 am)
Congratz on your hard work! Glad to see that it has finally paid off.
#13
06/14/2014 (5:23 am)
Congrats !
#14
06/14/2014 (5:30 am)
nice, Congratulations Steve!
#15
06/14/2014 (5:43 am)
A well-deserved accomplishment, congrats!
#16
06/14/2014 (6:04 am)
Congrats Steve!!!
#17
06/14/2014 (9:56 am)
Bravo, well done, Steve!
#18
06/14/2014 (9:57 pm)
Congratulations Steve. Always an inspiration!
#19
06/15/2014 (3:57 am)
Congratulations Steve, very well done. Sadly the match didn't go quite well last night.
#20
06/15/2014 (9:53 am)
Well done!!!
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