Working on a Chrome extension to (unofficially) add multiplayer stats to Steam.
Ichiro Lambe
@ichiro.bsky.social
Solving Game Discovery at WeLoveIt.io • Founder, Dejobaan Games • Prev. Steam Labs @ Valve • 30 Year Veteran Game Dev • Boston!
💥🥊🐔 DEMO INCOMING!! 🔥🍕💥 The wait is finally over! Play the Knuckle Paradise demo THURSDAY 8TH OF OCTOBER on our Steam page! 🐔 shorturl.at/nZSFs 🐔 Time to crush some bears and tell your therapist how good it makes you feel. See you next week on Wingsland Island, your chicken is waiting for you…!
We’re making a scrabble tower defense game! Every word in the english dictionary is a unique tower ARROW pierces enemies PUNCHES knocks them back
46.2% of all games on Steam this month launched with an AI disclosure. That's nearly 700 titles. Here's that with rough (Boxleiter) estimates on gross sales. (Again, devs don't need to disclose ALL GenAI usage, so that excludes Codex, Claude Code, etc.)
20% of all games are disclosing GenAI usage on Steam. That's over a fifth of titles released since disclosure requirements. This excludes studios that *don't* disclose, along with studios that use GenAI exclusively for coding. Here's the breakdown (third tab): weloveit.io/developers/a...
Duskers 2.0 update video #4! Vents, tiny drones, making the derelicts feel more lived in, and varying the room layouts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz9...
Duskers 2.0 - Update #4
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I just saw @weloveit-io.bsky.social featured in @pcgamer.com for its analysis of game sales on Steam. You can check out the dynamic analysis and slice the data for yourself in their Steam Revenue Report. (will post in the comments)
Here's the latest 6,000 Playstation games mapped onto a shiny sphere for no reason except to see if it's technically possible to cram all the data together: playstation.ollanders.com/experiments/...
Console storefronts list a handful of genres, and Steam has about 450 tags—but I think interesting things start to happen when we expand that to about 5,000. For instance, there's currently no way to filter for GAMES WHERE NOTHING IS TRYING TO MURDER YOU...
Feedback requested! 👇 This is Cozy Nook; a place for getting cozy game recommendations and seeing what's just released, alongside viewing cozy content, news, creators... it's pretty crammed with cozy! You can see it here -> www.figma.com/proto/5PEwjJ... So, cozy folk, what do you think?
Today's fun: the Steam Revenue Report: weloveit.io/developers/s... This is a snapshot of estimated earnings for games on Steam (using the Boxleiter Method), alongside different ways to slice the data. How concentrated are sales/reviews? What does a typical game earn at a given percentile? Etc.!
The Steam Revenue Report — We Love It
Estimated earnings for every game on Steam. Constantly updated, free, and every number is clickable.
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The current biggest use of disclosed AI on Steam is 2D images (12% of all releases, 63% of all AI disclosures) among titles released since Jan '24 (when disclosure started). Code remains listed on a number of games, despite Valve dropping the requirement. More data: weloveit.io/developers/a...
We have an announcement! He Who Watches by @danga.games will launch on September 2nd! 👁️🏹 A first-person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets! store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
I was proud to contribute my engineering puzzle game Pictassembler to this bundle. Please support the bundle!
Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 2mo agoIn response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
I'm happy to announce that @misfitsattic.bsky.social has been funded to make Duskers 2.0, a Duskers sequel, thanks to Max McGuire's project fund Stray Signal coming out of EGG's Demo Day.
How do Steam genres rise, fall and mutate? @ichiro.bsky.social, Matt & Dr Tim dig into Game DNA Project’s Tag Cascade report: we lookin to the lifespans of genres, the Steam Greenlight effect and why AI tools may be fueling shopkeeper sims. Watch -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYuP...
Discovery Deep Dive #5 - Which Steam tags have stood the test of time?
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Here are the latest JRPGs to break through to 100 reviews on Steam! #1 Ova Magica - weloveit.io/game/129... #2 STARDUST: Wish of Witch - weloveit.io/game/393... #3 Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered - weloveit.io/game/426...
Pulling numbers from Steam API, 7.4% of all RELEASED games have AI disclosures, but 14.1% of all UNRELEASED games do. (Per game discovery work on WeLoveIt.io.) #steam #steamgames #genai #aigames
Working on a MEGA SEARCH for Steam devs. There are a few ways to search we can offer that's not currently possible on Steam, including # of supported players! #steam #steamgames #indiedev #gamedev
A few folks asked for the numbers for games released AFTER Valve added its AI disclosure policy. Here is that.
Ichiro Lambe@ichiro.bsky.social · 4mo agoPulling numbers from Steam API, 7.4% of all RELEASED games have AI disclosures, but 14.1% of all UNRELEASED games do. (Per game discovery work on WeLoveIt.io.) #steam #steamgames #genai #aigames
Pulling numbers from Steam API, 7.4% of all RELEASED games have AI disclosures, but 14.1% of all UNRELEASED games do. (Per game discovery work on WeLoveIt.io.) #steam #steamgames #genai #aigames
WeLoveIt is lucky to have a bunch of talented dev friends who’ve whipped up some awesome demos for #nextfest - check em’ out below! #steamgames #steam
We're live! Proud to work on something that celebrates all the cool stuff in #NextFest. #steam #streamgames #steamnextfest #indiegames
WeLoveIt.io@weloveit-io.bsky.social · 4mo agoNext Fest is awesome, but HUUUGE and gone too quickly! The Next Festival Explorer is live at: weloveit.io/next-fes... Let it to do the hard work of finding you the best, possibly hidden, demos to play! #steam #nextfest #demo #steamgames
There will be over 4,800 demos in this month's Next Fest, making it the largest Next Fest of all Next Fests.
Next Fest devs: if you're interested in some free promo, or want to sponsor a spot, check this out: weloveit.io/developers/n... #steam #steamgames #indiegames #nextfest
Teasing this for next week! #steam #steamgames #nextfest #indiegames
Arcane Eats, the World's most delicious #roguelike #deckbuilder, has a new expanded demo with a GIANT update; and it’s in Steam Next Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/2640090/... We’d be delighted for you to sample what we’ve been busy cooking! But maybe Gorgon Ramsey says it best… #indiegames
I kinda want to parody Steam's "Discovery Queue," and I'm thinking "Discovery Canal" is amusing but too outlandish. Am I getting old in my old age?