Will Bestgames become part of Valve?

[BLkun]

I just thought about this. I wonder if Valve will do Bestgames like the portal guys and hire them on or something......I wonder if the Bestgames guys even WANT to be with valve......just a passing thought. Maybe start some interesting debates.

[matto1990]

Anythings possible. Just so you know its only one developer in the Audiosurf team. Not sure what Dylan does as a job, or if Audiosurf is his job. Would be interesting if Valve did hire him, would enjoy seeing what he could make with the steam engine.

[BLkun]

o.o holy crap! It's just Dylan??? Man genius just doesn't say it does it? Yeah it would interesting if he did get hired. Perhaps they'd give him his own legion of programmers to work under him XD.

[UncleChuckle]

Valve are just providing the release platform with Steamworks. That's all.

[Chance]

Is it really just Dylan?  I thought I remembering him saying something like "our graphics designer is on it" when someone said how the main page was boring.

[matto1990]

I think there is a graphics designer, but he the only programmer i think. Thats what i meant

[BLkun]

Valve are just providing the release platform with Steamworks. That's all.

Just speculating man, anything could happen.

[Gunney]

Audiosurf is one of the first games using steamworks and that is completely free to developers so I would imagine he keeps 100% profits.
Excerpt: Complete Suite of Publishing Tools Available Free of Charge

January 29, 2008 – Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announce Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools – ranging from copy protection to social networking services to server browsing – is now available free of charge to developers and publishers worldwide.

“Developers and publishers are spending more and more time and money cobbling together all the tools and backend systems needed to build and launch a successful title in today’s market,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “Steamworks puts all those tools and systems together in one free package, liberating publishers and developers to concentrate on the game instead of the plumbing.”
link: http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1423&cc=CA

[matto1990]

It will be free for develoeprs to use in there game, but if they want to distribute the game on steam there will be charges. If not then vavle will make no money from steam works at all.

[Gunney]

It will be free for develoeprs to use in there game, but if they want to distribute the game on steam there will be charges.

hmm where did you find that info? My post above says differently and that is directly from valve itself.

[Psy-T]

using steamworks is free. being distributed by steam isn't. your post did not say otherwise.