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Steam Rich Presence

Last year Steam updated its friends list and chat client to support more features, and among them is support for “Rich Presence,” or basically giving games running under Steam the option to share with friends more about the player’s current state. As you can see I’ve now added this feature to Cogmind for the next […]

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Data and Insights from a Month on Steam

So last month Cogmind “launched” … for the second time :P It’s now on Steam EA and doing fairly well. Not like indie smash hit amazingly well, but that’s a given considering it’s way too niche for that kind of attention. Still, the relatively unexciting screenshots and two-year-old alpha trailer are apparently sufficient to attract […]

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Cogmind Released on Steam

It’s finally happened. After over four years and more than 8,000 hours of work, Cogmind has just been released on Steam :D “Released” but Early Access. Some say that as soon as you release on Steam, EA or not, that’s it–you only really get one launch and the “full release” won’t make as big a […]

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Prepping for Steam

Cogmind is coming to Steam this month! This was inevitable, of course, if a little later than planned as I waited to at least partially get over the serious injury which has been keeping me from making progress for months now. Anyway, here we are, with contracts signed, a store page already in the open, […]

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