Make some Steam card to embed within websites, and social networks.

[Géant]

When you want to show a game on your blog, or with some friends, all you can do is share a link to Steam.
If you could share a card ( the video and screenshot element, plus some information and a buy button, or install button ) that would be great.

[Spawn of Totoro]

People could use it to steal cards information. There are security risks with allowing something like this.

Would be nice to do, but...

[Géant]

Ok, just a link to bring to Steam through a custom uri.
The buy button is just an extra, the main objective remains: being able to easily share a game.

[Spawn of Totoro]

You can link directly to a store page already.

For example.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/31280/?snr=1_7_15__13

[Géant]

Yeah, obviously, and that's what I say on my initial post.
But equally obvious, when you try to convince people they should have a look, you first need to catch their eyes. Having the gallery for this game, the price and the metascore would have a bigger impact.
Many people still don't know about Steam, or just ignore it. That could bring them to discover the nice prices, the unknown indie games etc etc.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by VistorG:

Yeah, obviously, and that's what I say on my initial post.
But equally obvious, when you try to convince people they should have a look, you first need to catch their eyes. Having the gallery for this game, the price and the metascore would have a bigger impact.
Many people still don't know about Steam, or just ignore it. That could bring them to discover the nice prices, the unknown indie games etc etc.

So, you want something like how Steam does Youtube video links?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4JwPb99qU

[Géant]

I want something like an embeded Youtube Video.
But it would be the slideshow from a steam game page ( vith X videos and Y screenshots ).
The videos could be played from within the page.
An extra slide could display some extra informations like metacritique, editor name, gamepad support, minimum configuration etc etc.
And at the bottom, a price indication "12€ ( 50%off for 2hours )" and some redirection button "See on steam".

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by VistorG:

I want something like an embeded Youtube Video.
But it would be the slideshow from a steam game page ( vith X videos and Y screenshots ).
The videos could be played from within the page.
An extra slide could display some extra informations like metacritique, editor name, gamepad support, minimum configuration etc etc.
And at the bottom, a price indication "12€ ( 50%off for 2hours )" and some redirection button "See on steam".

That sound like something you would have to code on your own.

I don't think they will do it since there are over 2k games on Steam. It would take a lot of time and resources for them to implament.

Good luck with that.

Atleast they will better now what it is you are asking for.

[Géant]

But... the assets are here, there is no new data involved, and definitely no need to make something for each of the 2k games. They just need to turn those data into an embeddable widget, like Youtube videos, or Tweeter feeds.
This is actually little work in my opinion ( except maybe about the bandwidth ).