Shortcuts in Steam to TDM

[freyk]

While we wait to see TDM in Steam,
there are ways to promote TDM in Steam in the mean time, to your fellow Steam-gamers.

Like adding non-steam shortcuts in Steam to TDM, its updater and editor. (or creating a Steam skin)
When you are online and play or run the game/applications,
theoretically your friends wil see that your playing the game or running the updater/Dark-radiant.

 

For the unexperienced users, I am working on a feature for the TDM installer,
to start the shortcut-adding procedure in an easy way. (they need to select the executables and add the banner themselves.)

But you can do this yourself by:

• Adding Non-Steam shortcut:
  start steam > game library > "add a game" > check tdm executables (or browse for them).
  (change its name, if needed: game library > right-click game > properties)
• And then adding banner to shortcut:
  library > click on the 4-tiles icon on right side of the window > right click on game > set image.

What do you think about this idea?

Edited April 5, 2018 by freyk

[freyk]

(Some early screenshots of the installer feature and TDM userpage in Steam.)

Edited April 5, 2018 by freyk

[chakkman]

I already did this (added TDM as a non Steam game, but... none of my friends there really seemed to take that as a motivation to give it a try. Frankly, I don't think stealth games are very popular in general these days. Too slow. People prefer quick and easy games.

[Dram]

I already did this (added TDM as a non Steam game, but... none of my friends there really seemed to take that as a motivation to give it a try. Frankly, I don't think stealth games are very popular in general these days. Too slow. People prefer quick and easy games.

Sadly this is indeed true. I have tried to get several of my colleagues at work into the game but alas to no avail.

[chakkman]

Yeah... frankly, i don't get it. I'm playing through Thief 2 now (for the third time, i think), after finishing Thief Gold, and, it's once again a really nice, relaxing, while at the same time thrilling, experience, and, the atmosphere is simply unbeatable. What's not to like. Especially as TDM has the better, more modern graphics, and in many ways extends the gameplay of the original Thiefs.

Edited April 7, 2018 by chakkman

[Bikerdude]

The team dont I imagine wnat to get into a debate about this, but they ran into legalese issues that a number of the team weren't comfortable with. That and the Valve contact I had been liaising with at the time never got back to me, so nothing ever got moved forward.

[freyk]

I (and maybe other 'community' members) would like to know what these issues are. Maybe we can find a sollution.

But create this another topic.

 

To keep this topic going, are there any things we can change in steam?

Edited April 7, 2018 by freyk