Topic: The Unofficial Steam Sales Thread

I love me some Boarderlands, but I'll wait and see if Boarderlands 2 comes to the Wii U.

Me and my friends played really a LOT of Borderlands 2 last weekend. I think in three days we played it close to 20 hours.

I have also been playing Dota 2. It's a great game with terrible players. Make one little mistake and my god your whole team just wants to rip you apart. I've played it well over 40 hours and I think I've had one excellent game in which my team was supporting towards new players. All the other games someone has been raging and blaming others because we lost. Someone actually said to me that I'd have to delete the game from my hard drive (admittedly I was a terrible Anti-Mage but we still won). I seriously haven't seen the same amount of rage in any other multiplayer game.

Applications are now available on Steam, including Game Maker (the deluxe version is £300, but you get access to the base version for free). It uses steam workshop to share creations - games - with other users.

Is anyone interested in making games with this? I might - I just have to learn how to use it!

The real big Steam news of today is that BIT.TRIP CORE in now available on PC and Mac. Get to downloading, then!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/205060/

On second thoughts, don't download Game Maker unless you're willing to pay for certain features. The free version limits you to:
+5 rooms
+20 sprites
+10 sounds
+15 objects
+5 Backgrounds
+5 Timelines
+10 Scripts
+5 Fonts
+10 paths

The ability to to export for Android and iOS costs £116.99 each, HTML 5 plugin costs £53.99 and the Standard Edition (which allows you to create unlimited resources) costs £26.99 - not a bad price if all you want to do is release games on the steam workshop. The Professional Edition is needed if you plan on developing games commercially, as the HTML 5, iOS and Android plugins are only purchasable with the Professional Edition. The Professional Edition doesn't appear to add any other features beyond that, yet it costs slightly more at £53.99.

Still, I feel this could be a gateway for me into game design and coding, and I'd be willing to go for the Standard Edition at some point. But as it stands, the Free Version just isn't worth playing around with.

@edhe Yeah, the restrictions on the free version of GM Studio are simply asinine. However, I've heard that it's quite possible to import GM 8.1 projects (both from the Standard and Lite editions) into Studio, so I will be testing that out to see if there's a work-around.

Hmm, I didn't know that was out. I've always loved Game Maker so Ill look into it

After some digging (AKA creating a forum topic on Steam and asking), GM 8.1 projects can be imported into GM Studio with no restri.... (See comment #5.)

Hmm, in that case, this really interests me Ill have to start getting back into Game Making

Halloween sale is on now, for anyone interested!

The Halloween sale started late this year, huh. I'm gonna pick up Amnesia, Lone Survivor, and maybe Dead Space or the Overlord Collection.

I feel like an idiot. I finally decided to buy Half-Life and now I'm hearing about Black Mesa Source. :/ Is Black Mesa a remake of Half-Life or something entirely different?

Just wondered if anyone has looked at the Humble Bundle 4 for Android or Indie Royale's Harvest Bundle?

A remake of HL 1 using the newer Source engine.

Thanks, I'll just play through HL1 and HL2: 1 and 2 before playing Black Mesa. May as well play through it.

Thanks for the heads up. I keep missing Machinarium even though it's been on the bundle 4 times now.

That's Sonic Adventure 2 finally available.

Steam Sale on now.

I don't usually use Steam, or do PC gaming in general apart from Minecraft and a bit of TF2 (mostly because my PC isn't that good for games, i think the limit for it is just about running L4D2), but today I did get Terraria, The Binding Of Isaac and Cave Story+ for £5.76 overall, which I believe is a very good deal in the Steam Sale. Sure, almost every PC gamer has those games already, but I can't wait to try them out for the first time:)

Welcome to the cult, Bulby. Terraria is definitely a good game, well worth whatever price it happened to be listed at. Cave Story+ is also a good snatch, and if you're into what Binding of Isaac offers you will get many hours out of the game. I personally found Isaac only good for one playthrough, but I've heard of many who have spent hundreds of hours with the game, so there is a large enough amount of content to justify the price.

The Steam Autumn Sale is live! Sooo...yeah...umm..I guess you can buy some games if you want? Hmm...

...A-ha! How has everybody been using/enjoying/despising the Steam Workshop? While I have yet to upload anything other than some custom Portal 2 levels, I would like to add something more substantial to a game's workshop.