Teeworlds on Steam (Page 8 of 14)

You have a valid point there, needs.
I guess it is a win-win-situation for both sides.
Increasing the player base looks like a good trade-off for supporting a proprietary platform, as Teeworlds needs new players badly. Steam has the potential to help Teeworlds enormously, especially since Teeworlds would be one of the few truly free games on the platform.

Loving TW since 2010

Yeah, I more meant Vanilla, as I'd like to play more random matches on other maps than ctf5.

Loving TW since 2010

Is putting this game on steam compatible with an account system, which is planned, as far as I know?

To expand on that: An account system is not currently planned – Steam would be compatible with that though, probably.

There's no specific release date planned, but I'd like to release as soon as possible. For that we still need (a) the trailer, (b) some more pictures and (c) a working OS X version. I'm working on (c), there are people doing (a) and (b) probably will get done as well.

I think mentioning that mods exists is probably the minimum we should do.

In the discussion someone brought up the idea of creating a little intro to the GUI and especially the server browser. I think an easier and more efficient way to help new players get across the entry barrier of finding a proper server might be creating an "instant vanilla action" button, that automates the server selection process and picks the "best" vanilla server available. I'm really concerned that a lot of new players might join servers with high ping, few players, too many players, weird maps, servers where they get kicked instantly by a bunch of idiots who're claiming the server for themselves, servers with too many good players for the newbies to have a chance or mods they don't understand without explanation.

You could go even further and add a feature to the server that keeps it's players skill homogeneous by suggesting players with a scoring rate of more that twice the median or something like that to join another server, so servers end up being sorted by skill.

Working on it right now? Well, I wasn't, but now I am.

I don't know what kind of music you want to use, but if you publish the trailer on YouTube, adding credits for the music in the description should be enough most of the time. Incompetech could be a good source for music, and Kevin MacLeod is satisfied with credits in the description.

Also like this idea! It would be important to weight the different aspects you mentioned in order to be able to find such a "best" server.

Regarding the single player tutorial: I think something like that would be good, though it woul be easier to make a tutorial map and advertise it on tutorial servers, which contains "solo" training parts, like on some DDRace maps... Maybe list the server on the top of the list, or as a separate button which takes you directly to a server, but hide-able of course.

Loving TW since 2010

here eat this;

I think we're done, unless anyone has a small idea or two, as I can easily implement it on my side, but I'm not sure about Oblique., I assume he can make easy changes easily too ^^ (In other words, I have a perfect working copy ready to be worked on when ready to be worked on when ideas are ready to be worked on with the ready to be worked on copy, and I think Oblique does too. whew.)

Thanks for the help with sending demos to Oblique, guys!

EDIT: eek I think the upload failed; you guys with faster internet download it and tell me if it cuts off too early

I really like the ending of the video (map editor / own servers / mods) but I feel like the gameplay part is a bit too long and I'm not sure if custom skins should be shown.

Okay, thanks for telling me.

(Guess it was just a coincedence the file when uploaded was smaller than the file I had!)

EDIT: Yeah, in the middle the gameplay gets a bit generic, but I think it still represents Teeworlds pretty well. You all probably, like me, think that there should be some viewing of ctf2 and ctf1. As I simply made the audio and credits, we'll have to ask Oblique if he can take out some of the generic and long parts of the thing, which maybe we could find some exact parts that could be taken out without any "enjoyment-descriptive" factor taken out, then replace them with more interesting and descriptive clips. Since by the middle of the video, we've already seen plenty ctf5 ^^ (CTF5 can have some cool moments, but that isn't the only thing we're after, right? No? Yes?)

Tell us suggestions, this should cater to everyone's idea of something to provoke people into playing the game. I'm unsure if I put this correctly, but in other words, just keep doing what you've been doing to help, (I think) etc.