by darkhog » 15 Feb 2018, 17:53
2. Other open-source projects are on Steam somehow (Krita, Blender, Godot, Teeworlds, possibly more). It's just a channel of distribution and having ST there would be great from the marketing standpoint since almost every gamer is using Steam (even many Linux gamers ever since it supports that amazing OS).
3. And you didn't have a problem with endorsing Greenlight fee, which was literally the same? But okay, not being able to afford it is a legitimate point. Maybe start a Patreon to support ST development.
4. Built-in level editor is great, I don't know what you mean it's unusable. Yes, there is a room for improvement, but they're minor things like need for a better script editing with syntax highlight or not being able to use scroll wheel in the tile selector (you have to move mouse to the top/bottom edge to scroll through things). Certainly no deal breakers. And commercial games don't come with editors because they don't want competition for DLCs - how can you complete with a free mod that sometimes is even better than official DLC? But they used to, examples would include Build editor for Duke 3d or ZZT.