The Human Gallery has been Greenlit!

Hello! :)

That was quick as The Human Gallery got Greenlit in only a week!

There are some things you might want to do when you list your game on Steam Greenlight. One of the most important things is animated .gif file.

Try to show the gameplay and the logo. This will generate a lot more clicks to your page than what still image probably would. When people enter your page make sure the first thing they see is the actual gameplay footage of the game. If you have Greenlight trailer or something like that, arrange your videos so that you show the gameplay footage first. Trailers are cool, but the gameplay is more important!

It's also a very good idea to use images in description. Though I did a small mistake here, and inserted an image before any text. So when people hovered their mouse over my game they did not see the short description but an img tag. To avoid that make sure to describe your game briefly before adding images.

Alright, Finnish Steam here, but this is how it went:

From top to down it tells your current position on your way to the top 100, unique visitors and how many days your game has been on Greenlight, 'Yes'-votes and followers.

THG had 2412 'Yes'-votes and was in the top 50 when it got Greenlit, but since I was away from home I could not take any screen captures, sorry about that!

Wait what!? It got through with only a 2412 'Yes'-votes?
Indeed! Steam Greenlight has surely changed a lot!

It's not long when I listed my first game, Silence of the Sleep on Greenlight. It was a lot more harder to get to the top 100. For example back then SotS had 2000 'Yes'-votes in 3 days, and was only 27% on it's way to the top 100. It had a lot more visitors on it's page and back then it needed around 5500 'Yes'-votes to get Greenlit.

But the change with the figures does not come from the game, I actually think The Human Gallery was presented a way better than Silence of the Sleep. From what I can tell, Greenlight is "fading" away. Something else will take it's place for sure, but at this rate it won't take long.

Sure getting Greenlit is not only about the votes. Steam surely checks the press coverage, Youtube etc. Also having released a game earlier surely helps too. So yeah, if you list on Greenlight, be active with the press, Twitter, Facebook etc. Do it daily!

Alright, so THG got Greenlit in only a week! That's incredible, especially when I screw up my press/Youtube LP demo. I had a bug with my aspect code and I had to pull down the playable demo. Thus the coverage from the various medias was nothing to get excited about. Anyways, luckily THG was able to get through. So even though THG has been Greenlit I'm slightly disappointed that it has not spread like I would have hoped. Though lots of this comes from the fact I had to pull down the demo. Hopefully I can fix it soon and send it out, maybe that generates some buzz! :)

Alright long post so I better stop for now, thanks for reading!

Oh yeah, my wife baked a cake, it is delicious! :)