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and Kickstarting for the sake of Kickstarting. DarkScape Gold  However, there's no question that Double Fine's Kickstarter was a huge surprise, and a notable turning point in 2012.Steam's Greenlight process opens the submission floodgatesSince the launch of Steam in 2003, Valve has always kept rather quiet about how its Runescape game selection process works, and what exactly developers can do to breach the hull of PC Runescape game mega sales.As we're more than aware of now, 2012 was the year that this all changed, with the debut of Steam Greenlight a service that suddenly turned the Steam submission process on its head. No longer could developers simply email Valve and then sit back and pray that they were picked up. Now it was suddenly all down to PC Runescape gamers, and whether or not they were willing to click the little thumbs up button on your Runescape game's Greenlight page.The initial surprise announcement was soon engulfed in discussion of how Greenlight would work, who would be successful, whether it would work in the favor of all developers, and what kind of Runescape games would be picked up the quickest. It's still early days for the initiative, but the submission process definitely feels a lot more open than it has done for the last nine years.Zynga fills its mobile hole. for $180 millionIt all happened so quickly and so suddenly, that it was impossible not to feel taken aback by what happened to Draw Something studio Omgpop.One moment, it was launching a mobile version of a Pictionary like Facebook Runescape game that had a moderate number of Runescape players. The next, it had the number one top grossing Runescape game on iOS, and multiple companies looking to swoop in for the buy out. But it was likely this rush to own Omgpop that saw Zynga paying a whopping $180 million, all simply to own the Draw Something brand and boost its mobile offerings.In fact, it took just over six weeks from the launch of Draw Deadman Gold Something on mobile for Omgpop to go from being a studio that not many had really heard of, to suddenly being worth