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[Sirus]

Good morning/day/evening, Bay Watchers! As you may or may not know, Steam has recently added about 50 Greenlit games to the store, and is celebrating with a massive sale. I figure that now would be a great time to help give back to this awesome community by helping those who have a hard time purchasing things online, or lack the funds to do so.

And so I present this giveaway! Simply name the Greenlit game you would like to receive, and if you're one of the lucky winners it will be yours! How many winners will there be? That depends on you, the participants! See, I have around $30 to contribute during this sale, give or take. If the top three people on the randomized list each pick a $10 title, that'd be it: three winners. If the top six people each pick a $5 title on the other hand, there would be six winners. Get the idea?

Just a few rules for this giveaway:

• You must have been a Bay 12 member since at least before August 1st, 2013. No Escaped Lunatics allowed.
• You must have a Steam account for this giveaway.
• In order to enter, just post the game you wish for, your Steam community page (a link is preferable), and your favorite gaming moment. Can be anything, but please keep the forum guidelines in mind.
• The drawing will take place September 1st, 10am PST via random.org.

Good luck everyone!

[quinnr]

This is a really super awesome, and unique giveaway. Thanks for holding it!

I'd really love to have La Mulana ($5.10, if including that helps save time at the end), heard about it before and it sounds pretty neat. Link to my profile..

My favorite gamer moment has to be beating Nethack for the first time. I was so excited the entire run of the game, it had been my goal to beat it for quite a while. Sure, my victory might have been a bit cheap, magically genociding the top five scariest species, if I recall, but still, I earned those scrolls, and I was so ecstatic when I finished and ascended. This is closely followed by my 3-heart Cave Story Run, which was also super fun.

[Frumple]

Well. Sure!

I'd be after Eador. Community ID page is this, with the neeble removed. Favorite gaming moment... well, there's probably a lot. One of the ones I remember the best, though...

Incursion. Playing a priest/barbarian drow. Late game, climbing across the ceiling because the character had reached the point it was so bloody ridiculous I could. I get grappled by a chuul. Then... then. Then. Still hanging from the ceiling. And grappled. I promptly proceed to beat the chuul to death with my bare hands, while grappled. Character wasn't, like. Unarmed spec'd or anything. Spent most of the game splatting things with a maul, iirc. She just hauled off and beat a crab demon to death while hanging from the ceiling. It was pretty great ♪

Just... the mental image. Of this crazy elf chick hanging off the ceiling punching a crab thing in the face until it dies. It remains beautiful.

[MadMalkavian]

Thank you for this giveaway. I would like Organ Trail: Director's Cut. Here is my profile.

My favorite moment as a gamer happened on my thirteenth birthday. I had gotten Pokémon Blue the prior Christmas and had asked my mother to get my younger brother Pokémon Red for my birthday so I could have someone to play with and trade Pokémon with. I remember just how happy he was when he was given a red and black Gameboy Pocket and a brand-new copy of Pokémon Red and I remember how happy I was when I saw my little brother's smiling face and when he hugged me. I cherish my brother even if we don't always get along and I'm glad I was able to get him into Pokémon, like how I was able to with Magic: The Gathering.

[DeKaFu]

I am interested in this. I've had my eye on Miasmata for a long time now.
I guess this is my profile?

My favourite gaming moment must be...uh... Pretty much the entirety of Shadow of the Colossus, I guess. I only played through it once, but it sucked me in completely. Just thinking about it brings back the feelings of a beautifully lonely world, insignificance next to things much older and greater than yourself, and, for some reason, the smell of wet stone.

[debvon]

One of my favorite gaming moments to date had to have been in (heavily modded) Skyrim. I was playing a "cleric", focusing on martial, restoration, and destruction skills. I had been slaughtering some filthy unbelievers bandits that had ambushed me near the peak of a mountain. After pulling my flaming sword from the pile of flesh and cleansing myself of their entrails, I felt the freezing tundra begin to sting at my heart. I turned around saw my horse, stuck with seven arrows and lying still on the ground. The next 15 minutes were amazingly tense as I made my way down the mountainside to a small settlement. I came close to freezing to death, but I had a powerful warmth enchantment on my cloak that I like to think saved me. The soulgem that was used in the enchantment contained the grand soul of some huge grisly I modded in specifically for that.  It might not seem so extraordinary, but you know how it is.. the right music came on in my playlist, the mood was right, etc. I could feel my character quickly freezing to death as I started to slow down, not only in traveling speed, but in combat. After barely surviving a pack of wolves and an ice troll, I pulled myself into an inn and fell into a bed.
Now that I think about it, I've had a lot of great moments in heavily modded Bethesda games. If it's not barely working, you don't have enough mods running.

You're awesome. I'm entering to win Hammerwatch. Profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197985527386/

[Sirus]

Oh hey. Assuming no-one else enters, we have ALMOST EXACTLY $30 worth of entries right here. Neato.

[Darkmere]

I'm not entering because nothing on the list that I don't have screams must-have, but I wanted to say it's a cool idea for a giveaway. Thanks for your generosity, Sirus!

Spoiler: Speaking of awesome modded Bethsoft games... (click to show/hide)

I had put in a bunch of new music into the rotations for lots of events in Fallout 3. I remember getting to the air force base at the end of Broken Steel, and as I walked out of the train tunnel into the last bastion of the Enclave.... This starts playing. Hell. Yes.

[Gruntdonttoot]

I would like Gnomoria for $2.72

Steam profile: http://steamcommunity.com/id/gruntdonttoot

And my favorite gaming moment has to be either playing Just Cause 2 for the first time, getting the golden key to the end of the ice caves in Spelunky, or finding out about dwarf fortress/ roguelikes in general.

[pedrousz]

If I still have a chance I would love to play some La Mulana too, my nick is http://steamcommunity.com/id/pedrousz 

NVM, I already bought it after selling some dota 2 item lol

[Nistenf]

Thanks a lot! Sign me up for Eador please.

I'm not entirely sure about my absolute favorite gaming moment. But the day I found out about DF was amazing. I just couldn't believe what I was playing, I ended up going to bed at about 5 or 6am and sleeping for 2 hours or something. Another great one was the game Portal in its entirely. I just love that one.

EDIT: Sigh, I forgot to paste my Steam account

[Cthulhu]

Throwing my hat in the ring for, you guessed it, La-Mulana!

This is me.

My favorite moment... 

Spoiler: I first posted this in April 2008 (click to show/hide)

A goblin ambush appeared north of my fortress, consisting of four archers and a swordsman.  About ten squares away was a hunter.  I drafted him, hoping he could take potshots at them.  Never in my life have I seen someone pierced by more arrows.  Saint Sebastian would've been jealous.  Unfortunately, my entire fortress was outside, as we had just received the largest caravan I've ever seen(3 wagons, four or five mules, it was insane).

They say a dwarf can smell unowned socks up to five miles away.  Fully half of my fort's denizens charged that dead body, intent on claiming his possessions.  I forbid the items, but not before the arrows started flying.  The peasant in front(we'll call him Fasty, because he was fast) quickly began to regret his speed.  Shortly afterward he ceased to regret, and breathe.

My Elite wrestler, Erush, charged into battle, axe gleaming.  To make a long story short, he died.  Everyone died.  My favorite dwarf, Ral something, left a trail of blood all the way to the goblins, then began to crawl away, leading to a giant red, backward 7 on the ground.  He died, like everyone else.  The caravan guards helped a bit, but they mostly just stood there, stupid guards.

Another ambush appeared to the east, and began to approach my fortress.  Keep in mind, my entrance was surrounded by a spiral wall full of cage and weapon traps, so they could never get in there.  I thought my fortress was impenetrable.  Like everything else I think, it was a stupid thought.  In the hopes of keeping my stockpiles underground, I had set up an underground tunnel to the nearby loam hill, deciding that if it was loam, there'd be no rocks, and I'd be able to store more stuff.  When hollowing it out, I left a spot where the wall went diagonally.  The goblins proceeded to walk through the gap, where my farmers, engravers(I don't know why), metalworkers, and pretty much everyone else, was working on various stupid things.  By this point, the carnage was lowering my FPS significantly, and the slowing-down effect was enhanced by the Gregorian chant to which I was headbanging.

Result:  A haunting scene where my unarmed workers ran from the goblins, who chased them down and dismembered them, in slow motion, to beautiful music.  It was like something in a movie, except I knew everyone in the movie.  The resident blacksmith ran out of his foundry to investigate, and was shot at point blank range by a goblin crossbowman.  My legendary engraver's arms were cut off, and he was sent flying across the room.  My mayor(Formerly my favorite soldier, she was pulled into an underground lake by named Frogmen and Olmmen, and tore them apart with her bare hands), didn't even put up a fight.  At this point I had lost about 30 dwarves, leaving 20 cowering in the main fortress area, with the dining room, bedrooms, and all that nonsense.  The only thing that saved them was a pack of dogs that loyally protected their masters, killing any goblins that went down.  All the while, my last soldier was sleeping in the barracks.

About the time the last of the dogs bled to death, my woodworker went berserk.  I looked at the dining room, and there was a huge cloud of miasma.  Dwarves were running out of it, I imagine screaming like girls.  Out of the miasma calmly walks the axe murderer.  He proceeds to decapitate a farmer, and continue to chase the rest of the dwarves.  The last guard put up a decent fight, managed to give him a brown wound to his spine, and broke his leg.  The psycho finally bled to death, and the fortress was no longer interesting, so I abandoned and came back as a swordsman.  That was three in-game weeks or so later, and only one berserk jeweler was left.  He was pretty cool.

I think the lesson to be learned here, is DO NOT SELL YOUR ANVIL.  It took me four years to manage to buy one, and I only had enough time to equip like three guys before they attacked, and all the plate armor and battle axes in the world couldn't save me from the goblin menace.  What a wonderful, terrible, gory mess of a fortress.

[Viken]

I'd like to get my hands on Gnomoria, instead of simply playing the demos I can get my hands on.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/vikenking/ - Profile page.  I don't know how to mask it with text on here.

My favorite gaming moment... Hm.  SimCity 3000, watching my perfectly build, self-sufficient and very wealthy city being destroyed by an alien invasion I started when I was a kid.  It is one of the first true PC games I ever played. 

[Shadowlord]

I'll enter for Gnomoria. My steam profile is here (and in my sig); I'm Trafalgar on Steam.

I think my most favorite gaming moment would have to go back to Master of Orion 2.

In Master of Orion 2, I used custom races with ground combat bonuses, and to make things harder, would give myself research penalties. I eventually was able to beat the AI using vastly inferior technology and vastly fewer ships, research handicaps and the uncreative penalty, by building fleets composed entirely of ships intended to do nothing more than stay alive long enough to board the enemy ships and capture them. Once I had captured an attacking enemy fleet, I took it home, took it apart, and obtained technology from it, which I used to build better boarding ships, and so on until I was able to go on the offensive and eventually capture essentially every fleet in the galaxy, and (because I took telepathic) mind-control every colonized planet after blowing up their defenses from orbit (usually with their own starbase). The AI didn't seem to know how to deal with having all their ships captured, beyond self-destructing any that got tractor-beamed (which didn't help if I used assault shuttles or transporters, and only the Antarans had the self-destruct-on-capture-most-of-the-time device).

Also, this screenshot I took in Saints Row the Third:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=141569123

[Iceblaster]

So uh... Where do I find greenlit games?

I have never browsed that area before so I have no idea where to find them.

EDIT:I'll be joining if I find anything I like and can't obtain because money and they interest me more than the cheaper games.