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Valve Is Looking To Phase Out Steam Greenlight
Bombs are being dropped at the developer-only Steam Dev Days event, where Valve managing director Gabe Newell said “Our goal is to make Greenlight go away. Not because it’s not useful, but because we’re evolving.”
Steam Greenlight is a voting system that was launched in 2012 to help indie developers get their games distributed digitally on Steam by building and fostering communities around them. The games that are then welcomed by the community are eventually rewarded with a greenlight. It’s a flawed system that would benefit from added regulation, but it looks like Valve is instead going to phase it out entirely as they continue to “evolve.”
This decision won’t cause indie developers to lose a valuable tool. In its place, Valve is planning to remove the barrier between development and publishing by offering devs more control.
In related news, Steam’s mad growth doesn’t look to be slowing down. Back in October, they announced the service had 65 million active users. Yesterday, they boasted 75 million. That’s an impressive 10 million new active users in just three months. Not too bad.
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The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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