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All the info's there, pretty much, it comes with multiple free demos (including Akabur games, with the permission of all the game devs whose games are on it already)!

Just need to sign up at the link on the Tumblr post and then post on the forum, the creator of Steamy will send you a code and such.

(no, I don't get paid for this, I just want to spread the word about it because it would help out a LOT of h-game devs in terms of distributing their game!)

It's obviously in a pre-alpha state, but he's been doing a lot of work on it over the past few months, and it's looking better and better by the week, so yeah :D

tl;dr
This is going to be Steam for Hentai games, finally a place to sell your H-games and build a community around them without getting reamed for 30% to 60% of your profits on DLSite or having to abide by Patreon rules by ultra-privating, not being able to host files, and not being able to directly sell the game on the site etc.




Edit - The original name of the software was "Steamy". If you've heard of something with that name, you're likely thinking of Kimochi.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

Seems like a pretty ambitious project. Interestingly it has the .io domain name, which after looking it up is the domain for the British Indian Ocean territory which is kind of interesting. Something to keep an eye on.
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

This has the potential to be amazing! I for one, second the following statement:

"Finally a place to sell your H-games and build a community around them without getting reamed for 30% to 60% of your profits on DLSite or having to abide by Patreon rules by ultra-privating, not being able to host files, and not being able to directly sell the game on the site etc."

Here's to hoping this is the dawn of a new, English hentai game era! :cool:
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

Seems like a brilliant idea, I really hope this one picks up steam (no pun intended). It can completely change the face of digital distribution for the h gaming community, it has the potential to integrate so much into a single unified platform which we now currently have to search a billion different sources for (i.e: mods, up and coming developers, indie games, different sub genres etc.). Great idea and I wish you all the luck in the world!
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

Imagine we get Achievements!
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

I really like this idea, if only because the idea of having a more centralized distribution system for Western developers would make the market way more powerful. I got in contact with the developer, and he's definitely a pretty chill guy.

Some things we discussed about:
- It's just one person on the development team, who's been working on the actual project for three months
- Its direction is mostly community driven, so it's a lot of what's being developed was suggested by the people following the project
- He's definitely realistic about how he wants to approach the project. He's aware of potential issues like contract law and illegal content, but will need to get more community support in order to act on them.
- He's currently not taking donations and paying for server costs and hosting by himself


Definitely check them out

Hell, I'm gonna abuse mod powers and sticky this for more visibility.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

I really like this idea, if only because the idea of having a more centralized distribution system for Western developers would make the market way more powerful. I got in contact with the developer, and he's definitely a pretty chill guy.

Some things we discussed about:
- It's just one person on the development team, who's been working on the actual project for three months
- Its direction is mostly community driven, so it's a lot of what's being developed was suggested by the people following the project
- He's definitely realistic about how he wants to approach the project. He's aware of potential issues like contract law and illegal content, but will need to get more community support in order to act on them.
- He's currently not taking donations and paying for server costs and hosting by himself


Definitely check them out

Hell, I'm gonna abuse mod powers and sticky this for more visibility.
I was gonna say you should prolly link directly to the post where people get codes that I had in my Tumblr post, so that people don't post all over the forums asking where to get codes :p



^ That there :D and thanks for the sticky!
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

...
Some things we discussed about:
- It's just one person on the development team, who's been working on the actual project for three months
- Its direction is mostly community driven, so it's a lot of what's being developed was suggested by the people following the project
- He's definitely realistic about how he wants to approach the project. He's aware of potential issues like contract law and illegal content, but will need to get more community support in order to act on them.
- He's currently not taking donations and paying for server costs and hosting by himself
...
One person dev team and 3-months? Must have extraordinary capabilities! Certainly looks like a really good idea but the road will be long and arduous as hell.

Just maybe steamydev can bring about a new age of adult marketin and gaming. Would be a sight to behold.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

So this is basically an adult steam-like platform? And we'll have to actually purchase games to play them. This will be something like an anti-piracy adult game platform. Liking it. ^^
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

So this is basically an adult steam-like platform? And we'll have to actually purchase games to play them. This will be something like an anti-piracy adult game platform. Liking it. ^^
And since it will be selling 18+ content only, you will have to use your CC which i detest.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

So this is basically an adult steam-like platform? And we'll have to actually purchase games to play them. This will be something like an anti-piracy adult game platform. Liking it. ^^
There would also be elements of stuff where you could post demos for your game, get early feedback, have like "newest featured demos", all that
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

A promissing idea and a break for H-devs that have to choose between DLSite insane cuts and Patreon to make a game. Hell, if this goes right we might actually see more people pumping out full games and better quality in works because there's a stable platform for everyone in the west.

I'm keeping an eye on this, it would be nice if the adult market in the west could get a break for once.
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

And since it will be selling 18+ content only, you will have to use your CC which i detest.
Ah hell, you're right. Doesn't paypal have something saying it can't be used for adult content?

Still, it's sounds like a very good idea which will help western devs at the very least as dlsite shanks them the worst.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

Maybe some other form of payment? "membership buyable from another site", 'Steamy Cards', etc...
If it gets big enough, it's entirely plausible that other "fund indie developer" type companies (Patreon, for example, Offbeatr as well) might develop partnerships with them to get them more publicity/payment options.

In fact, there's actually a few really big names I've hooked them up with that are working out some business stuff with em right now, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that :D (not Patreon or Offbeatr though lol)
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

tl;dr
This is going to be Steam for Hentai games, finally a place to sell your H-games and build a community around them without getting reamed for 30% to 60% of your profits on DLSite or having to abide by Patreon rules by ultra-privating, not being able to host files, and not being able to directly sell the game on the site etc.
Steam also takes 30% of every sale and this site will also have to take parts of every sale to finance everything.
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

While the idea is in principle, a good one, whomever picked the name needs to be have a read on trademark law. If this actually succeeds, Valve will swat it down for trademark infringement. And I should point out that this would pretty much be Valves obligation to do, so no appealing to their goodwill.
 

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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

I hope this takes off and goes for a static percentage cut pricing model. I dislike Dlsite's pricing model where developers don't even get the majority cut in profits unless they price their games above 1200 yen.

Not only will this encourage more people to develop for the English hentai industry but it could also potentially encourage more Japanese developers to expand into the English market as well.
I am excited to see how this will turn out.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

Steam also takes 30% of every sale and this site will also have to take parts of every sale to finance everything.
I have to admit I didn't know this, as I've never sold anything on Steam, holy crap, what the hell is wrong with them?

I can understand this when selling porn due to the difficulty in doing so, but Steam is already raking in the dough, why such an insane cut?

That means that if Steamy can get it even lower, then they'll effectively be even more profitable even for the "SFW" hentai games (like the SFW version of HuniePop).

Provided the games have good marketing (and Steamy itself does), of course.
 
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Re: Steamy, a new game distribution platform for Hentai Games!

I have to admit I didn't know this, as I've never sold anything on Steam, holy crap, what the hell is wrong with them?

I can understand this when selling porn due to the difficulty in doing so, but Steam is already raking in the dough, why such an insane cut?

That means that if Steamy can get it even lower, then they'll effectively be even more profitable even for the "SFW" hentai games (like the SFW version of HuniePop).

Provided the games have good marketing (and Steamy itself does), of course.
Running a distribution service like steam is not cheap, the cost for setting up and maintaing the server architecture that meets the requirement of millions of users downloading games and updates easily goes into multiple millions a year.
AAA titles are only going to get bigger and bigger storage space wise and the users who buy those games expect to be able to play them on release day. Steam has to be able to handle that demand or people will get pissed off.

Them taking a 30% cut is a pretty good deal considering the costs and work of distributing a game to such a large market yourself.

As for Steamy they will probably need to take a much lower cut: the English market is so small that developers can manually distribute their games and make threads on sites like this and hongfire to attract attention without too much trouble. It may also take awhile to attract the Japanese market into using the service so it needs to be a good alternative for local distribution for now with the prospect of being a competitor to sites like DLsite in the future.
 
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