malikqayum

I actually forgot to blog and tell you guys the news, I happened to get greenlit june 12, so obviously that is some late news to share but still some good news I guess.

The things I had pre-planned on how to promote my game never happened because i actually got greenlit before that and it was all set to be executed today which reminded me i forgot all about you guys.

I know that from many developers including myself how frustrating it can be looking at the "X % from the top 100" and not seeing yourself move or maybe move so slow but you do not know how far from the top you really are because there is no real public data on it, hence why I started to do my own data mining and creating the top list myself so I could see which games where a head of me and which type of games were getting greenlit before me (the criterias).

I think, that all the datamining I did the past month has given me an almost accurate idea of what it takes to get greenlit, so I will use that for the next game because I am fairly sure that I would get greenlit faster this time, knowning how everything really works because it is fairly easy to create a pattern of how valve greenlits games.

for the people that are wondering wether I made it to the top100, No, I did not make it to top100, here are my stats roughly of the top of my head:

Yes votes: 1150 yes votes (42%)

No votes: 1400 (55%)

Maybe votes: 100 (3%) and

81% to the top 100

but I knew that it was not needed to be in the top 100 to get greenlit, I was ranked 140 when greenlit.

I would love to share the greenlight data I collected overtime, maybe in a blog or an article so that other devs could eventually perhaps use it to look at how they themselves are performing and maybe what they need to do, because nothing stops you from relaunching your game on greenlight and give it a second go.

Where am I now?

well I am working on making everything right so that i can release it to the steam store and on the side while doing that I am also working on my next game in Unity5, so that will be the next big thing for me.

Happy Game Making everyone.