I spent a couple of days last week working on some of the various things that need to be done to put Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja (my last indie game) on Steam.\u00a0 Specifically, I was working on Steam trading cards and all the related content.<\/p>\n
Honestly, I never paid much attention to Steam trading cards in the past.\u00a0 Turns out it\u2019s a bigger and much more complex system than I thought.\u00a0 First there\u2019s the trading cards, which are randomly added to your inventory every so often as you play the game.\u00a0 Except that you can only get about half the cards (chosen randomly) that way.\u00a0 To get the rest you have to trade another player for them, or buy them from another player for real money.\u00a0 If you get a complete set of cards, you can trade it in to craft a badge.\u00a0 Crafting a badge lets you display it on your profile and also unlocks a random emoticon and profile background image (which you can also trade and sell).\u00a0 But that\u2019s not all.\u00a0 Collect all the cards again and you can craft a level 2 badge and get another emoticon and background.\u00a0 Then do it again, and again, all the way to level 5.\u00a0 But that\u2019s still not all.\u00a0 If you\u2019re really lucky you may get a rare foil version of one of the trading cards instead of a normal one.\u00a0 If you somehow manage to get a full set of foil cards you can craft a special foil badge.\u00a0 A little complicated?\u00a0 I suppose it does appeal to seriously hardcore completionists though.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I ended up having to make a lot more images than I thought I would.\u00a0 But it did get my thinking about what type of cards, badges, etc. I\u2019ll make for Aurora\u2019s Nightmare.\u00a0 Aurora\u2019s Nightmare hasn\u2019t been approved for Steam yet, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019ve yet to submit it (I plan to wait until the demo is finished).\u00a0 But anyway, I fully expect it to be on Steam eventually, so it doesn\u2019t hurt to do a little planning ahead of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I spent a couple of days last week working on some of the various things that need to be done to put Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja (my last indie game) on Steam.\u00a0 Specifically, I was working on Steam trading cards and all the related content. Honestly, I never paid much attention to Steam … Continue reading Thinking About Steam<\/span>