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What is the cost of distributing through steam?

We are in Pre-alpha stage of a game development project and haven“t yet got reply from Valve about how it works to distribute through Steam. We need this information to do a business model with all ...
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Steam Submission Times

I was wondering if anyone has released or tried to release on Steam and how much time it took Steam to respond to your game submissions, I cant find any info about it on their website and its been ...
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What should I keep in mind while developing a game for Steam?

I recently did the programming on a game that was just released and i've decided that for my next project I want to do something a little bigger scale. I plan to develop a game to be sold on Steam, ...
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Advantages of Steam Greenlight

Let's assume that I can pick a fairly decent game, build it, and finish it with sufficient chrome plating; let's also assume that I can market it myself to some extent, through my own website. What ...
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Is there a proxy for the Steam Web API?

I'm making a small spreadsheet that tracks the amount of kills my wrench's eaten over time in TF2. So far I've been manually copy pasting fields from the TF2 window, but hey, Steam does have some API ...
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TF2 plugin signature (Source SDK)

I am working on the server plugin for TF2. I need it for getting some stats from game (no hacking and cheating). My problem: I got message "No valid signature found..." while testing my plugin. But I ...
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Hammer BSP file size inefficiency

I haven't posted here before but I came across a problem, when I save a map in Hammer as .bsp it ends up being over 10x bigger than all of the source files put together. I found the source for one map ...
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Fix broken Portal 2 Chapter Handling in my Mod

I am running again into issues where my mod and the Portal 2 base game do not like each other! In order to provide the proper menu background images and the music for each of the 5 (internal - ...
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Rcon Api not working

I am developing a gaming control panel and that uses Rcon.jar to fetch data from gaming server. the code to use it written as below public static String rconExecute(String rcon, String command, int ...
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What are the main requirements to port a game to Linux [closed]

Steam for Linux is out today and I was surprised to see many games already being sold, which made me wonder what are going to be the difficulties for all those games to be ported to Linux. I broke ...
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Cocos2D-X on Steam and iOS App Store [closed]

With Cocos2D-X can I really submit my games to Steam and iOS App Store? It's commercial quality? Do you have some samples of games built on Cocos2D-X that is on sales in Steam? Thanks.