Hello all.
(sorry for the typo: in releasing*)

The title says it all.

Did any of you manage ?

I am aiming to get my skills up-to par and considered Steam, however with a £70 charge it would be rather risky as you could easily loose the money. Bare in mind that you have to also pass the Green Light stage before you'd be able to start selling it and making the profit.

Just a dream to do my favourite hobby as a full time job.

Are you planning on releasing one anto80?

Edit:

The screenshots look amazing! Not my type of game but it looks pretty polished if you ask me.

I've got a (board)game on Google Play Store, and I really need to get motivated to finish off this second one and get it up, but the lack of financial return vs time invested kind of makes my motivation evaporate (especially when my main income has gone down the plug-hole).
I've also got a green-light thing going on Steam as well for a turn-based laser-squad type game, but that is under development.
I also have another couple of board games (android/linux/pc) in the pipeline and development, but they are on the back burner due to the above mentioned financial tightness.

Factorio is Allegro 5.

It's doing well, too, at least as far as the plenty of Let's Plays are concerned. But as for Steam... I thought it was (it was on Greenlight) but it looks like the devs haven't followed through into Steam yet.

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Here is another one that is on Steam... I've actually passed it by a few times not realizing it was Allegro 5.

Ghost in the Machine (Retro monochrome platformer)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/363220

And there was another guy on here who asked us about Allegro 5/Steam. I don't recall the name, but it was a turn-based, tile-based, top down, party dungeon crawler/DnD thing.

I remember he posted a video to steam that was originally very low quality so it made his game look bad by comparison. So I suggested to him that he either reupload a higher res version, or remake the primary trailer because that's the first thing people are going to see.

Factorio is Agui's biggest success story hahah

Trent gamblin, he surely is was a member and still is an active developer and contributor of the library.

Woah that's cool. Hey it's by David Capello!

That has nothing to do with Javascript though, it's just a NodeJS quirk.

In Short: I don't have a game on Steam yet, but I'd have to REALLY screw things up somehow or really miss the mark in terms of retro interests to not get my current project through Greenlight when I go to launch in a couple or three months.

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In Long:

I'm in the midst of working on a fairly large "secret" project using Allegro 5. I've been keeping it secret because the idea is so simple in execution and design that anyone with more time on their hands than myself could usurp the idea from under me before I could initially release it myself. Plus I have the perfect name picked out too for the project as a whole.

The thing is though, this project ONLY works if it can pass through Greenlight and get onto Steam, as it will contain three free games by default, and then all future games will be DLC, each only a couple dollars, as each game is extremely simple in terms of graphics and audio but will have plenty of gameplay and ties in with the overall motif of the program. (Players will also be able to demo the first portions of each paid game prior to laying down money.)

My confidence of getting through Greenlight is high due to a number of factors. One of the key factors is that the game system as a whole with the three free games built in will be available to play immediately without Steam, thus people deciding to vote for it will already have something tangible they can play. Another key factor is that I have a subscriber base of just over 5,000 on my YouTube channel, plus a couple video producing friends who may be interested in covering this project of mine, both of whom are much more popular than I am. (One's about 4 times more popular, the other 12 times.) The last key factor is that the free games STAY free once passing through Greenlight, so the program itself will always be free to download and use. It's simply the games I make after the initial three free ones which will cost anything.

And just so I don't come across as crazy and overconfident: I'm slightly past the 50% done mark in terms of content and game code. Foundation code, editors, etc., I'm about 95% done. I've only been working on the project for exactly one year, but then there were two months where I wasn't able to get any work done at all, and only two of the remaining 10 months was I able to focus explicitly on this project, as I have a web show which takes top priority which I JUST went on break from. So actual total work so far is probably closer to about 5 or 6 months worth, only 1 1/2 of which would equate to the 50% content and game code that's done and the rest to foundation code, editors, etc. The ultimate goal once the project is launched is to make at least three or four paid games for it per year (at $2 each), which I think is doable as I find game code FAR easier to write than engine code.

Time will tell and I'll definitely post about it here once I get the thing launched and up on Greenlight! Besides, every time I look at some other programming libraries or engine or something, I always come back to Allegro. It, just, WORKS.

...mostly...