![]() ![]() Valve has added a ‘push’ email to devs if you can have a Daily Deal: if your game is ‘eligible’ (more on this later!), you’ll get an email, and can go to this new Daily Deal page and pick a day for your game to get this primo visiblity. We had chance to look at this screen, and also informally check with Valve on a couple of things. If a game has been determined that it is eligible for a Daily Deal, Valve will send an invite to contacts for that game.” Interesting, huh? Well, Valve just rolled out a FAQ page (dev login required) on this new ‘Self-Schedule (Beta)’ option, saying: “The ability for a developer/publisher to schedule their Daily Deal on the calendar is now in beta. Wha happen? Your (discounted) game appears on the Steam store front-page to all for 24 hours. (It goes just next to ‘Discount Management’.) What is it?įor those who don’t know, Daily Deal is a front-page ‘curated’ feature, defined as a feature which is “earned with player interest” by Steam’s official ‘visibility explainer’ video - which you should definitely watch. Steam’s new Daily Deal system: how it’s working.Įagle-eyed PC game publishers & devs may have spotted a new option in the back end of the Steamworks tool last week under Apps & Packages, ‘Daily Deal Management’. His latest VVVVVV patch ? 21 new languages, including Arabic & Turkish, sure, but also - wait for it - Catalan, Welsh, Silesian, and even Esperanto. (We’re all about ‘platform updates’, here…)īefore we start, we’ve been talking a lot about localization recently, but Terry Cavanagh ( Dicey Dungeons ) is still wielding ‘niche localization’ as an inclusivity feature for ‘rarer’ languages. holiday), because of an interesting new Steam beta feature that we’re excited to tell you about. Welcome to a new week, folks! We’re putting out a slightly truncated newsletter today (officially a U.S. ![]()
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