(Note, my personal thanks go out to Driftwood , who offered me the chance to create this post.)

Hey all, my name is Ethan and I work for an indie games developer, Mechanist Games. We're working on our premier title, City of Steam (site link here: http://www.cityofsteam.com/), a free-to-play browser-based MMORPG.

If you've known of City of Steam before but missed out on our alpha tests before, not to worry, you'll still be able to test out the beta version of the game in about 3 months. Just remember to sign up for our newsletter (here: http://www.cityofsteam.com/get_email)(we offer subscribers priority on future keys)and keep an eye on our dev journals for up-to-date game development.

To those that don't know what City of Steam is (no surprise there, we're an indie developer, so getting widespread recognition is a relatively harder for us), it's an industrial fantasy/steampunk MMORPG, lightweight enough to play on even older computers and accessible straight from your browser. Even then, thanks to Unity 3D and a lot of in-house tools, we've managed to still make it look quite impressive, and all stored in but a few megabytes! Here is a quick look for world CoS based upon:

http://www.cityofsteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2011... (A quick look of the well-designed World Machine)

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Hey guys, City of Steam is now open and ready to play! All of you can join the game just by registering. Go here and start your journey into Nexus right now!

Thanks to your continuous support of our game, City of Steam has finally been approved on Valve's Greenlight approval system. We are thankful for everyone who voted for us and who spread the word! If you want to know more, you can find the full announcement here: http://cos.r2games.com/news/view/?id=1731

We maybe small and still has a long way to go before City of Steam is widely recognized, but we’re pretty receptive to player input and endeavor to openly discuss the development of the game. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any thoughts to share with us!

After a terrific weekend, City of Steam’s 4th and final Alpha test has officially come to a close a few days ago (see our wrap up announcement: http://www.cityofsteam.com/announcement-alpha-wrap...). Our thanks go out to all players who flooded in The Refuge before; without your support, we couldn't have tested the game out as thoroughly. Also, we've piled up tons of player input since the test started, and will be looking into them shortly. Be sure to keep an eye on our website and dev journals to keep up-to-date with Beta news and development!!

Heads-up guys, after discreet consideration, we finally announced that Alpha Collaborator Packs (link: http://www.cityofsteam.com/farewell-alpha-collabor...) for Alpha are coming to a close, so if you want to help us out and get some unique and neat swag/items, check out our packs before September 13rd, the day we wrap up the Collaborator Packs!

Last chance for supporting City of Steam! The closing date of all Alpha Supporter Packs (http://www.cityofsteam.com/cityosweb/default.php/Pay) is pretty close now; to those who've been keeping track of City of Steam, don't miss the chance of being an honorable supporter for this game while receiving some amazing CoS swag at the same time!

Check out a funny little video (youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd... ) we made while stressed-out over getting City of Steam Beta ready. Feel free to leave us a comment, too! As always, keep an eye on our Dev Journals for latest development progress we've made, and share your thoughts. Beta should be rearing its head out sometime in November.

I voted this on Steams Greenlight. Looks cool, although I don't have time to try it out right now.

Here is the link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/...

Thanks for checking our game, actually we've been polishing the game up since Alpha wrapped up in August (refactored the client, balanced things, more content and features, etc), and now the fourth Closed Beta Test will launch in just a few hours. If interested, be sure to check out some awesome Holiday extras we've prepared! Looking forward to meeting you in Winter Festival (our last CBT).

Great to see brilliant support for the Greenlight start-up for City of Steam, thanks guys, happy holidays and hope you'll have some time to try this game out later today. Feel free to drop me a line if anything is crossing your mind. :P

Still remember our Steam-o-Meter dev humiliation extras promise? Well, we just rolled out a video about it, ENJOY!

http://youtu.be/Rj7c_dfDIrs

Gates of CBT finally closed (http://www.cityofsteam.com/cbt-seasons-have-come-to-an-end), but don't slacken off guys, Beta will be coming up soon, along with more new features and content, so stay tuned!

Keep up the votes for our Greenlight project everyone, we've got a good chance to get greenlit next month.

Hey guys, we're heading to PAX East and GDC 2013, feel free to drop by and play our game at booth 582 if you attend PAX!

We’ve recently put up a dev journal about a new feature, the Wilderness, which is a public instance where many players can be in at once. Please check more details through the following link if interested: http://cos.r2games.com/news/view/?id=1588 :D

I actually found myself at your booth during PAX. But not till the show was winding down unfortunately.

Someone at the booth was nice enough to give me some of your promo materials, one of which was a winter hat! Which I promptly wore outside in the cold weather.
Thank you!

NP, thanks for stopping by. We're now close to launching a playable version, be sure to stick around and join in the test if interested. ;)

Hi everyone, City of Steam is now open! Are you ready to play? Go here and start your journey into Nexus right now!

Congrats!

Will check out when I get home from work!