Event Sponsors: Barter.vg
In sponsorship of Steamroll


A grand finale!
Enjoy the final giveaways of our thrilling first event!

If you haven't yet, scroll down to see if you're a bonus prize winner (chances are you are)!

Some interesting stats:

  • 11 giveaways were whitelist-only giveaways directly associated with this event.

  • 14 additional giveaways were associated with this event. I contributed 6, pandimonium contributed 3, and 5 additional generous participants each contributed one giveaway each.

  • 28 bonus items were offered, of which 19 were never-before-offered-free Steam keys- and of those, 9 (half!) were donated by two generous participants (Barter.vg and Hakunamata).

  • In total, 53 items or sets of items were offered during this event, of which 44 were never-released-free-before steam games.

  • And, most importantly: I made 26 new whitelist friends along the duration of this event.

Thank you all very much for participating!


Most Active Participants

  1. Pandimonium
  2. Hakunamatata
  3. Sisyphus

Congrats to Pandimonium, our MVP, who claimed Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders as his prize!

Thanks to EVERYONE for making this such a fun event!


Prize Corner

<<Please claim your prizes within 24 hours of the last giveaway's end time!>>

Claim your bonus prize!
Simply post which game(s) you're interested in from the bonus game list, sorted in order of preference.
in the case of multiple people wanting the same game, preference will be given in the order below [sorted by bonus entries achieved during the event]:

  1. Loops

  2. Sisyphus17

  3. Pandimonium

  4. Ronald8818

  5. InquisitorAles

  6. m0l0

  7. Flinkman

  8. troieve

  9. Triisken

  10. JinksMeister

  11. Catmint

  12. kairuku

  13. Lemmjng

  14. Onro

  15. Tryyton

  16. bardobill

  17. tigerpup

  18. Const

  19. Shrooom

  20. Mindshadow

  21. RVK250

  22. Caractacus

  23. Afrooz

  24. Ev11

  25. Serkroth

  26. Argeus

Bonus Prizes

Fine print: As with giveaways, these must be for your own account and redeemed promptly.
Since all bonus items will be given away by the end of the event, when choosing one of the bundled sets below, please only take the items you actually need, since remaining items will be given to other participants.

Non-Steam:
1: BloodRealm: Battlegrounds "Gaul" Campaign + BloodRealm: Battlegrounds Debut Champion "Lora" + 3 Elite Packs
2: Origin combined key: Sim City 2000, Ultima VII, Wing Commander III, Wing Commander IV
3: Desura Key Package: Atonement: Scourge of Time, Big Journey to Home, DarkBase 01, dUpLicity ~Beyond the Lies~, Evopollution, Grand Class Melee 2, Miner Warfare, Volstead, X-note, Yargis
4: DIG GreenLight Bundle 1 Itch.io keys: http://www.dailyindiegame.com/greenlightbundle_1.html
5: Scrolls Starter Set (https://scrolls.com/game ): Includes two Preconstructed Decks (Longnose Brigade and Way of the Knight) which you can redeem even if you already own (or plan to later buy) the decks through the game.
6 (Donated by Hakunamatata) E3 Ticket Bundle items:

SMITE Loki Pack + Xbox One Closed Beta
Ghost Recon Phantoms E3 Avatar and Starter Packs
WildStar Standard Edition

7: Strife Closed Beta Key

Steam:
8: Previously-Free-Games Steam Key Package: Avencast: Rise of the Mage, Cubetractor, Crash Time 2, Gun Monkeys, Jet Gunner, Space Hack, Swipecart, Woodle Tree Adventures
9: Labyrinthine Dreams
10: Critical Mass (w/ Bonus Air Guardians key)
11: Cubemen
12: Hare in the Hat
13: Real Boxing
14: Salammbô: Battle for Carthage
15: Space Trader: Merchant Marine
16: The Nightmare Cooperative
17: Velvet Assassin
18: Volstead
19 (Donated by Barter.vg!) Basketbelle
20 (Donated by Barter.vg!) eden*
21 (Donated by Barter.vg!) Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
22 (Donated by Hakunamatata) A Bird Story
23 (Donated by Hakunamatata) Cities in Motion 2
24 (Donated by Hakunamatata) Divekick
25 (Donated by Hakunamatata) Divekick
26 (Donated by Hakunamatata) Gentlemen!
27 (Donated by Hakunamatata) Spy Chameleon - RGB Agent

Other:
28 (Donated by Flinkman!) Coupon: 2K Store 25% off Merch


Ongoing Giveaways
Day 1: Reignmaker - WINNER: DimonD
Day 2: Grotesque Tactics - WINNER: TheDopefish
(See the runners up here)
Day 3: UFO: Afterlight - WINNER: princessmiwi
(See the runners up here)
Day 4: Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ - WINNER: shadowish4
(See the runners up here)
Day 5: Avadon 2: The Corruption - WINNER: jatjr
(See the runners up here)
Day 6: Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered - WINNER: TreeB
(See the runners up here)
Day 7:
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified - WINNER: TreeB
(See the runners up here
Project Temporality - WINNER: shadowish4
(See the runners up here

Flash Giveaways!

You Are Not A Banana - WINNER: Loops
Trine 2 - WINNER: IcePick
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition - WINNTER: princessmiwi


Associated Giveaways:
Terraria
Company of Heroes: Complete Pack
CoH 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West

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can i give away bad rats

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Going to use this spot as a record of ongoing promotional giveaways:

Cross-Promotional Giveaways for Renoir:

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I'm sure you're probably just making a joke, but;
You're welcome to contribute ANY game, even ones given away for free;
However, in the case of games that can't be listed on Steamgifts, I won't give any entries for the donated game.

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Day One Whitelist Giveaway:
1: Take on Helicopters (http://store.steampowered.com/app/65730/)
2: Reignmaker (http://store.steampowered.com/app/286200/)

Vote for which you'd like to see- the one not chosen will not appear as an option again!

(Votes are shown at the end of the OP, tomorrow we'll be using strawpoll for voting!)

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8 years ago
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Well, now that we got someone breaking the 'no spam' request early on, can we move on past it? :P

8 years ago
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I vote for Reignmaker because both games have not-so-great Steam reviews, but at least Reignmaker has trading cards, and I like that genre of game.

8 years ago
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Yep. Hopefully noone is discouraged by that, I'm starting low and going up, for the most part.

8 years ago
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Would really like to see Reignmaker since it run on Linux too, just like the Kickstarter game :-)

P.S. It might be good to use a separate poll thread here on Steamgifts to streamline the voting.
Or even https://strawpoll.me/

8 years ago
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Yea, a strawpoll would be nice. A separate thread will probably get buried easily.

8 years ago
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Pick your bonus gift :)

8 years ago
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The Nightmare Cooperative please :D

8 years ago
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Very nice!
A bit late for the first one [I'll be throwing it up in a little over 2 hours] but I'll definitely use it for tomorrow's voting :)

8 years ago
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I watched video on kickstarter and it's look quite interesting. I won't be baker because I short on money and I rather don't use kick.
I would be happy if it would be made because I like logic games and this is someway familiar to me.

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I can't play fast or busy games, and I love things involving bouncing mechanics [eg, Billiards], AND I love puzzle games, AND I love Steampunk.

This game really looks like something I could have a lot of fun with :)

8 years ago
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i vote for take on helo cause it looks cool!!=>

8 years ago
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needed a TL;DR of the post, but watched the kickstarter video, backed it and wanted to comment.

Game looks cool as-is, but would TOTALLY love a level builder as part of a sdk. that's the only thing I'm not entirely pumped about.

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Was the tl;dr I included lacking in some way? :X

I'm afraid I'm not sure what a sdk is.

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People generally add tl;dr at the end of their posts so he probably expected to see one there and missed it.

sdk is software developement kit. He meant he would have loved a way for us to design our own levels.

8 years ago
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Thanks for the in-depth response!
I've updated my post with better formatting, hopefully that'll help things :)

8 years ago
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Yeah, level builder or SDK... typically an SDK includes multiple tools, like a level builder + model builder + skin creator/templates + core code for developing mods and such... I suppose for a game like steamroller a level editor would be a great offering as a kickstarter perk.

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Yep, that sounds great!
If we can help the devs get it off the ground, maybe they'll look favorably on us in that regard in the future. ;)

8 years ago
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This is a great way to promote your kickstarter. Have you also made a reddit post of it on /r/indiegames and/or /r/gamedev ?

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I'm not affiliated with the kickstarter team in any way, and I wouldn't even know how to begin utilizing redddit effectively.

But please feel free to spread the word on your own, if you also find the game worth the effort!

8 years ago
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I'm really looking forward to his event
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8 years ago
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Looked at the kickstarter, the game looks really fun. Definitely like the mechanics of the ball being used to create ramps and walls. I hope you can disable the trail that shows you where you are shooting, though. That seems like it would make it far too easy.

Nice contest you have going on too! I vote ReignMaker. Bejeweled > Simulation any day.

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Take on Helicopters has co-op, though ;)

Reignmaker is pretty fun- I own it already- but it has some idle game mechanics that are a bit weird; sometimes it's better to just leave the game for a while and come back [to have more resources and upgraded town elements].

Well, if you approach it as a 'let me play a bit of this every once in a while between other games' game, it's not at all bad :)

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Ah, that's good to know. I don't mind idling games. I have few friends to play co-op with anyway xD

8 years ago
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i used too play this type of game back when i had a xbox 360 really fun type of game. i hope steamroll still gets made even if it doesn't make its 12,000 mark i'd buy it, if it makes it though kickstarter i'll buy the game.

8 years ago
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Just remember, you don't get charged for kickstarter backing unless the project meets its goal, so if you're able to, consider backing the game!

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Yep. I actually wanted to do this earlier, but doing it during the Steam Summer Sale seemed.. ill advised; and the past few days in-between have been busy for me :X

:taps head: Due to circumstances, I can no longer play fast paced games [RTS and FPS games especially], so finding something other than a visual novel/turn-based RPG that I can play- and actually am enthusiastic about- is always a delight.
/and what's not to love about a Steampunk Metroid-like Ball that shoots out other, potentially explosive balls?/
It's like a modern digital version of playing marbles, with Steampunk; to me, that's super awesome. :)

The price they're requesting for a copy of the game is super reasonable as well, unlike a lot of modern games.

I also love how the devs keep offering steady gameplay video/design note updates, that's a good sign to the quality of the team.

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Huh. I feel like it's similar to Rock of Ages, but still looks like a neat little game there. :)

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Which is also a game I own :D

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Well that makes sense then :D Puzzlers I have to be in the right mood for, I gotta admit. Strategy is the genre that gets me the most.

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Real-time, grand warfare (eg, traditional turn-based military games), 4X, Risk-style, HoMM/King's Bounty style unit command, strategic RPG?

All of the above? :P

I used to be a big fan of the first three, back when my brain was a little more agile, but these days I mostly stick to the last one. :)

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Oh god, all of it. Civ V Once took an entire night from me and I didn't notice until it was daylight, and therefore I am terrified for the day I finally install Europa Universalis and give it a whirl. Age of Empires, Rome: Total War. Old-ish school stuff too, like C&C, Star Wars Rebellion, and Space Empires (III specifically). Bounty style did throw me for a loop though, I got pretty stuck on Majesty 2 back in the day. At the end of the day though, there aren't too many game genre's I don't like.

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I'm basically a big fan of any non-RTS strategy game that ISN'T Sid Meier or Paradox branded.

Those are seriously the only non-RTS strategy games I really have any issue with, though :X
Fallen Enchantress was fun (especially with the elaborate full-rework mod I made for it), and the Age of Wonders series is incredible (especially with a mod I made for Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic that hyper-randomized hero skills :D).

And yeah, I spent way too much time growing up on Warcraft II, C&C series, Age of Empires I + II, and Starcraft, gods, Starcraft.

Strategic-RPGs are definitely my main focus, though- even when I did mostly play RTS games, in the past, I always made time for SRPGs. From the early Shining Force games, to the Arc the Lad games, I had my SRPG teething done on some good games :)

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Also, I feel like I need to vote Reignmaker as well. That's partially because every time I looked at the title for Take On Helicopters, this is what I thought of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

8 years ago
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Go head and pick a bonus gift :)

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"General" would have been the right category.

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I looked around for any sort of forum posting guidelines, but nothing in the guidelines or faq that was up addressed anything of the sort, and there are no taglines/descriptions associated with the forums themselves.

And given some of the silly things I see posted to deals that really shouldn't be, I thought a free game giveaway was valid, even if it wasn't a mass-key/big-web-site affair.

Having been a moderator and admin on several forums in the past, I know 'General' usually is meant solely for casual discussion or discussion relevant directly to the site; so I felt that to be more inappropriate under consideration.

Hopefully I don't end up causing any problems with my placement :X

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http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/WJkmT/help-us-categorize-discussions

Edit: To clarify a bit, the General category should be used for SteamGifts and Steam related discussions (How do I get points?, Fortix Giveaway, Should I Buy Portal?, Is Steam Down?, etc) and Off-Topic for everything unrelated.

Events go under General. Casual discussions go under Offtopic. Deals go under deals. Puzzles go under puzzles. A tabasco drop fell into my eye. I have to go.

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+1

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Interesting looking game (Steamroll I mean). It does look like it's going to fall short of the mark, though sometimes money floods in at the last minute. You never can tell with Kickstarter projects.

There's still early bird slots available, which is cool but worrying as far as success chance goes. @_@

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:sob: It's all my fault for not promoting it better.
:curls into the steamball of shame:

At least their goal is an easily reached one, so they've a good shot..
And worth noting that they're really just looking for money for polishing and publishing, by the looks of it, they seem to have a lot of the core elements already developed so it may work out.

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You must be pledge and reach the goal. Wish we can reach the goal on it's due date.

8 years ago
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The closer we get to the goal, the more likely we'll see a surge of contributions near the end :)

8 years ago
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The [end of the] OP has been updated with the first day's selected game, as well as the poll for tomorrow's game!

8 years ago
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I do love Kickstarter and the game looks beautiful. If it weren't already Greenlit I'd definitely vote it up. I'll probably back it too, thanks for the recommendation. I just posted my first giveaways this week and I am going to run a few more. Might as well put them to good use promoting a fun game. I'll be sure to post again once my giveaways post.
Also since I have both take on and reignmaker, but have played neither I shall abstain from voting this first time.

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We're on to the second day's voting now! 5 games to choose from!
Give the poll a look, at the end of the original post :D

And thank you for helping out, I appreciate it!

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Ha, in the couple minutes it took me to read the thread through you posted it. Already voted now :) looking over my list of games now, brb with links. umm, do you have, like a default post for game promotion? Something like:
"This giveaway was created to promote the game Steamroll:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/474864843/steamroll-a-steampunk-puzzle-and-strategy-game
give it a look and do feel free to contribute or at least tell your friends if it appeals to you."
should I also mention this thread?
went with a combo of that and what you put in your reignmaker post. let me know if you like it.

first giveaway will end tomorrow night at 9pm:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/lohqM/beat-hazard-ultra

second giveaway will end the first at 9pm:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/srGG9/gunworld

might do more too.

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Looks great! :D

8 years ago
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A whitelist appreciation giveaway:

The Albino Hunter

8 years ago
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This game looks great, and i developing on UE4 too. Unfortunately I can't pledge more than 5 euros right now, but i'm really hope that project will reach the goal and see the greenlight.
Also, here is a small lvl 1 giveaway to promote this kickstarter and bring here more people - NAM. Cheers!

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8 years ago
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Thanks for supporting the game!
And yeah, I love how it looks. :)

8 years ago
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Which bonus gift would you like? :)

8 years ago
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Volstead looks interesting :)

8 years ago
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Somehow this thread reminds me of the fair in Bioshock Infinite. Step right up, step right up, get your free vigor here. Shoot some sillies and win money. Step right up! It's awesome :D

..ooh look at that man over there.. "handyman".. he sounds nice.

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I didn't have too much interest in the first two Bioshock games [nor for Fallout 3] but [like New Vegas] Bioshock Infinite totally changed my opinion.
So much flair and color, slinging through the air and engaging in wacky adventures.

I appreciate the comparison :D

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Thanks a lot for bringing this project to the light, it looks really promising. It's like InFlux and Talos (for the puzzle mechanic) have a baby together, for what I've seen from the trailer.
Now I'm a proud backer, here's a public level 1 GA for Contraption Maker (since nobody entered my too-well-hidden previous GA for it ^^)
I hope they will make it by the end of the 6 days delay, not sure at all, but still possible.

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Kidney selling is fully optional, but not DISCOURAGED, either. ;)

I'm always a bit hesitant with Kickstarter games, but the devs have been really professional in presentation, and have provided regular updates and gameplay videos; and the game really does look fantastic, both from gameplay and aesthetic vantages.

And well, if we can get close to the goal, that usually attracts more people from Kickstarter's regular funders. And even if worst comes to worst, just making a strong effort can help encourage the devs to see the game through even if Kickstarter doesn't reach the goal, and that alone is worth the trip.

Though I'm hoping we make the goal, of course! :D

Thanks for supporting the game and the event. :)

8 years ago
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Which bonus gift would you like? :)

8 years ago
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A third kidney ? :-)
If Hare in the Hat or Salammbô: Battle for Carthage is still available I'd be happy, but you can also choose a random game and make another event GA with it ! 39h to go for the kickstarter, crossing fingers...

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Unless InquisitorAles decides on one of those, you'll get your pick. Have a preference?

And, well, after a point, I stopped having any expectations of meeting the goal this KS run;
Rather, my aim was to show enough support for the devs that they'd consider putting the KS back up again, and just generally feel encouraged in their efforts.

Since they're already greenlit and x-box approved, and the game is mostly done, the project failing isn't really a strong concern, but the more support we show them, the more inclined they'll be to put in the extra effort for us, in making a better polished game- right? :)

Considering the backers were around 260 when this event started, perhaps we made a good show of support after all :)

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Thank you, no real preference, both looks interesting to me.
You are perfectly right with the future of Steamroll, even if they don't make it this time, they will surely in the future. As you said, game is already quite advanced and they will surely not stop there, after being greenlit and having a small but existing backers base.
And yeah, your attempt to spread the good Steamroll word on SG is a success, it will surely help next KS !

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Thanks a lot for Hare in the Hat, much appreciated !

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Shout out to the generous Barter.vg site host for contributing three of their games to the event!

Go take a look around the bottom of the original post to see the newly added games!

And if you haven't used https://barter.vg for your trading yet, you may want to give the site a look: It's super easy to use, and very well organized!

8 years ago
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Up for the glory game !

8 years ago
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Ooh, wow. That's pretty awesome. I love Barter.vg. I've gotten so many great games thanks to that site.

8 years ago
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I'm so glad I stumbled across Barter.vg, it's such a beautiful contrast to all the scammy trade sites out there [like GalaGiveaways].
I've had 72 unique interactions through barter [so far!], each very pleasant, and even among the people I didn't end up trading with, only two individuals were at all unpleasant to interact with [and in fairness, both were new to the site].

Add in how responsive and generous the site host is.. well, it's a gem of a site :)

8 years ago
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Wow, pretty nifty. I actually think this is a pretty good way to get your message of entertaining items across. Good idea!

8 years ago
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Thanks!
Being able to support a fun game while thanking the people who've interacted pleasantly with me on this site and through barter.vg, while meeting new great people?

It's a win situation for me all around :)

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Looks interesting after a quick peek. I'll take a longer look at it during the weekend, but I can see myself backing it. I mean, I like puzzle games, have played Rock of Ages and InFlux... so this seems to be something I could enjoy playing. :-)

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A good, unique puzzle game is hard to find- which is why I'm so keen to see this game be a success :D

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