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Used by 15 million gamers.
Now available to you for free.
STEAMWORKS
STEAMWORKS makes your PC games and
your business better by providing proven
game services, publishing services, and
development tools.
Now your game can use the same platform that supports over 250 PC
game titles currently on Steam.
With no licensing fees and no charge for bandwidth, keep your customers
up-to-date and together with a unified system.
There is no requirement that you sell your game on the Steam digital store.
Plus, Steamworks does not have a certification requirement—your game
and its future are yours to control.
Connect with your customers.
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Game services
Publishing services
Development tools
STEAMWORKS
Game services
Publishing services
Persistent identity framework
The Steam Community
Auto-updating
Achievements, leaderboards, profiles, and avatars make your game
come alive, building your community and providing a strong incentive to play more and recruit others.
Your game becomes the talk of the town as part of Steam’s large
and connected Steam Community. Friends will see friends playing
your game and will be able to organize matches, compare achievements, and talk about the next match, sequels, favorite parts, or
the best villain.
Be confident that all of your customers are running the most current version of your game. Update and expand your game as you
see fit. Your community stays current, and your support burden
will be significantly reduced. With no certification process, you're
in control. Update as much as you want, with as much as you want
—there is no charge for bandwidth.
15 million users on Steam.
Multiplayer matchmaking
The same robust back-end that brings players together for Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2, and (coming soon) Left 4 Dead.
You can customize these features to create specific matchmaking
and lobby functions.
Voice chat
With built-in voice chat, players can talk to each other both inside
and outside the game.
Anti-cheat
With true cheat detection, keep cheaters from ruining it for the
rest of us. Extend the life and sales of your game by making sure
that the game plays as you intended it to when you shipped.
Access from any PC
Your customers can sign in and use their game from any PC.
Access to their games is based on a customer account, not tied to a
computer. Plus, with built-in offline mode your customers can play
on laptops when traveling or anywhere else.
Real-time sales data
Log on to your personal sales and data tracking site and see your
product's statistics up-to-the-minute. Don’t wait for weeks to find
out where and how your game is selling. Real-time, worldwide
activation and use reports give you the detail you need to make
informed decisions about marketing and retail conditions when
they need to be made.
Region specific activation - Control access and content for
games in any region throughout the world.
Encrypted retail media
Protect your day one release by shipping encrypted media to
stores worldwide. No worry that your game will leak early from the
manufacturing path, because your game stays encrypted until the
moment you decide to release it.
North America
Western Europe
Anti-piracy
Oceania
End-to-end anti-piracy solution. Steamworks provides both a wrapper to protect your application and online authentication. Your
game is associated with a single customer account, which is used
for multiplayer authentication (no more “shared” key lists on the
Internet). Plus, the ongoing benefits of customers being current
and connected on Steam make piracy an unattractive option.
Asia
Eastern Europe
South East Asia
Russian Territories
Worldwide real-time data - Make better decisions about your product by being aware of
what is happening now throughout the world.
No charge for bandwidth.
Territory control
Open up new markets. Games can be set to authenticate only in
specific regions, allowing you to go day-and-date worldwide without the worry of grey marketing of products intended for
specific territories.
Community user profile pages - Your game is exposed by gamers to gamers
throughout The Steam Community. Plus, you can create your own community
pages to communicate with your customers.
Free Weekends and Guest Passes
Game lobby system - Users can set up matches quickly and efficiently by
using Steamworks matchmaking services.
Hold Free Weekends (or any length play period) to entice
customers and promote your game. Then securely and efficiently
turn the game back off at the end of the period. Also available
is guest pass technology that allows you to promote your game
through your community. Let friends give free, limited time passes
to their friends. Proven tech that has been used with our games
and third parties.
Key-based authentication
Easy, known, and proven path for customers to authenticate their
game. Keys are the backbone for inventory control and sales data.
Keys can be customized for region, content, language, and SKU.
STEAMWORKS
“…get down to the busy work of making fun games.”
> Joystiq.com
Development tools
Beta-testing
Rapid and secure build distribution
Run secure public betas of your game. Hold public betas and
choose from one participant to thousands, if you like. The timing
and scope of the beta is up to you.
The same tool that allows us to securely build and share Left 4
Dead between our offices in Seattle and Orange County can be
used for your product as well. No more syncing to build trees to
playtest. Let your own internal version of Steam help you run more
frequent playtests at the click of a button.
Build better products.
Bug reporting
Track most frequent crashes in real time and then triage based
on number of unique users. Auto-collection of minidumps and
minidump parsing tools to make your job easier. Find and address
bugs even before customers contact support.
Know your target audience
Using the results of the Steam Hardware Survey to look at your
game in particular, you can better target your development and
support of games.
“…a concrete glimpse at the future of the PC gaming market.”
> Next Generation
“Knowing Valve's proven track record of success in the
PC game space it's easy to understand why others would
want to come along for the ride.”
> 1up.com
Installer
Reduce your support costs with Steamworks updatable, proven,
and intelligent installer. Your installer can be auto-updated even
after delivering a gold master, ensuring that your customers have
the best experience from the first time they play your game.
Game stats and achievements - Create a robust community by having game
specific stats and achievements accessible to your customers and their friends.
Hardware data - Support your audience better by knowing more about the
latest hardware they are using to play your game.
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steamgames.com/steamworks
For more information about Steamworks, contact:
Jason Holtman
Business Development
[email protected]
425 . 889 . 9642 x208
STEAMWORKS
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