Building to windows from playcanvas... (playcanvas ---> Steam)

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Its not trivial due to the Steamworks SDK.

Here’s a guide. How to put HTML5 game to Steam

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how is it trivial to steamworks?

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What do you mean?

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what do you mean by trivial

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I said it is NOT trivial to do this. Trivial meaning easy or simple.

So I’m saying its not easy to get an html5 game onto Steam because of the issues mentioned in that article I linked. Its possible, just not easy.

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okay i didn’t expect it to be simple so :slight_smile:

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is there any video to help on this subject

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You can try and find one, I don’t know of any as its not a common thing to do.

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Just to mention that it costs $100 to get a game on the Steam Store Steam Direct Product Submission Fee on Steam

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i am aware of that fee, does it cost 100 per game or 100 upfront to be a developer

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Per game

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ugh the documentation makes no sense… the only thing i see on there is (had to rewrite lots of my game to work with steam) and thats not ideal

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You may be in luck here. I found a video

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2hours!!! damn… do you think you can make a tutorial on the playcanvas channel about publishing a playcanvas game… i really think that would be a great resource not just for me, but for tons of others that are confused by this stage

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well not publishing it to steam but building it for steam/windows

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There’s little demand for it because tend to choose PlayCanvas because they specifically want to publish to the Web.

Making a Windows EXE is pretty straightforward with Electron and doesn’t really need a PlayCanvas specific tutorial: Converting Web App to Desktop App with Electron @ https://jojozhuang.github.io

The documentation is open source so anyone can add a tutorial if they wish.

The difficult part about publishing for Steam specifically is because of Steam. You have to integrate the Steam SDK into the app which requires using Greenworks (GitHub - greenheartgames/greenworks: a node.js plugin to integrate nw.js/electron games with steamworks) as mentioned in the previous articles.

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@Kevin_Herod Here is also a YouTube video showing step by step. I have used to make desktop apps from my Playcanvas games. There are a lot of considerations that have been pointed out by @yaustar. The Steam SDK will give you some challenges.

Woops here is video
Coding A JavaScript GUI With Electron - YouTube

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yours doesnt seem to make much sense but i found this…Convert a Playcanvas project to Windows .exe with Electron [Tutorial] - YouTube

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if this tutorial works ill figure out how to add it to the documentation

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Just a self note here. Looks like there is an alternative Steam SDK integration called steamworks.js . Article writeup here: How to integrate an HTML5 Electron based game with the Steam API (alternative to Greenworks for Steamworks api)