Spring RTS Engine

Forboding Angel wrote:Players do not belong here. Players belong in the communities of the games they are playing.

Just because slamming everything under one roof is convenient for a few people here, doesn't mean that it is a good model.

Spring is an Engine. Not a game.

Im nouncin mah game. And i call it Spring. Deal with it

*groan* I need to get around to uploading and distributing that thing Argh sent me

I don't normally post on the forums but if you all are finally considering advertising, Steam just recently got something new going that might be of interest.

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/abou ... ection=faq

I don't know how one would submit the spring engine on there and if there would be any issues with the "TA" portion of it, but I believe Spring deserves to be on there. I've have some great time and some great games (several entirely different games in fact) in the past. Just hoping for this to get the attention it so dearly deserves.

The forum is not limited to the newspage. There is already a whole topic about Greenlight: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28631

erethorma wrote:I believe Spring deserves to be on there. I've have some great time and some great games (several entirely different games in fact) in the past. Just hoping for this to get the attention it so dearly deserves.

It does.. it truly does

what he is saying though is like saying "Unity should be on steam" etc makes no sense.

Put Intel on Steam!!

well good thing is we are above bribbery.. else we would have fallen. Wait, 300 hundred entrys for spring, heck even the old versions...

I think we'd really need to figure out how to integrate Spring's various moving parts with Steam before going that route... "Spring" isn't just one thing. it's the Engine with the core functionality, the Lobby Server, the Lobby Client, the file hosting, the games and maps and widgets... packing it all up as "one thing" like EvolutionRTS on Desura is an option but Spring is more like Source than Unity so if there was going to be more than one Spring game on Steam you wouldn't want it downloading the same engine and a lobby client and all the maps for each game on there.

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/disc ... ?appid=765 If anyone is serious about submitting a game, the link I posted is for a contest with the prize being the submission fee. But it must be one of the devs/creators that submits it.
And yes spring is an engine... with awesome games built for it... that deserve attention.

• Games using copyright material such as assets or intellectual property without permission from the owner

So in other words, no BA (which should be obvious, but people around here don't read for shit).

$100 bucks to post Evo on it? Ok, I could deal with that, but I would want a better lobby first (read, I need notalobby 3.x).

That said, I doubt that greenlight will see that much success. It would be nice if I'm wrong, but indie OS games generally have terrible GUIs coupled with awful UIs and shitty graphics, so simply being in that section will have these terms associated with your project even if God came down and designed your GUI by hand.

Just thought I'd add, in case anyone missed it, Valve is now greenlighting software. So yes SPRING can be put on steam, no matter the fact that its an engine.

But...

what would the point be? What would you do with Spring all by itself?

Putting spring as an engine on steam would be silly.If anything, it's a chance for games to show themselves off.

I have people on desura messaging me asking me to put evo on greenlight -_- Which I still am not sold on, but I must admit that choice (users not being locked to a single platform) is a good thing.

I love steam as a player, but as a developer of any sort I do not trust steam. Does anyone understand or relate to my line of thought here?

luckywaldo7 wrote:But...

what would the point be? What would you do with Spring all by itself?

Idk, I guess the same thing you do with Blender all by itself?

Forboding Angel wrote:Putting spring as an engine on steam would be silly.If anything, it's a chance for games to show themselves off.

I have people on desura messaging me asking me to put evo on greenlight -_- Which I still am not sold on, but I must admit that choice (users not being locked to a single platform) is a good thing.

I love steam as a player, but as a developer of any sort I do not trust steam. Does anyone understand or relate to my line of thought here?

I guess I can understand that for Evo but it couldn't really hurt spring at all could it. I mean it gets it out there either way, and I only mentioned it because it doesn't come with the $100 fee games do.

Awesome, so Spring is a 3D modeling program?

Ok, let's download and try it...



How do I make it go?

luckywaldo7 wrote:Awesome, so Spring is a 3D modeling program?

Ok, let's download and try it...



How do I make it go?

I never said it was a 3d modeling program. I was merely saying its software and that people use software. But I get it, it needs content to be useful and doesn't actually make content. Sorry I mentioned it.

You definatly should be.. why dont we forget about the whole steam thing, and think more.. about.. something.. origin-nal.. something else.. diffrentish, that doesent include putting the fringe into a spot light?

If that can make it onto spring then that's awesome, you've just saved AAA game developer millions of £'s! Just build the engine and put an empty dropdown box with the words "select game", anyone asks where the game is you say it's a game where chapter 1 is building the rest of the game in notepad