Is there a way to Install a game as an Application?

[Scared of Bathing]

Hey! I am wondering if there would be a way to install a game as an Appliction, so that I can play the game on any user account on my mac. When I install it, if I tick the box that says, "Create an Application Shortcut for..."? Is it even possible?
Thanks!

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[Perfect Player]

What exactly do you want to achieve?
To access your steam games from any OS X user accounts, follow this instructions:

copy/pasted from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1496016 , original poster Cougarcat

This is entirely Valve's fault in that they shove everything - game apps, saves, prefs, etc. in the User folder.(user/library/app support/steam) That's why steam games are isolated to one account. It's asinine that it works this way (app support should never actually have applications) but there you go.

To share the data, move /user/Library/Application Support/Steam/ to /Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Steam/ and then in each account run this in the terminal:

if [ -d "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/" ]; then rm -rf "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/" fi; ln -s "/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Steam/" "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/"

If you want your Steam games to appear on your launchpad, Create an Application Shortcut and move it to your /Applications/ folder

[Scared of Bathing]

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What exactly do you want to achieve?
To access your steam games from any OS X user accounts, follow this instructions:

copy/pasted from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1496016 , original poster Cougarcat

This is entirely Valve's fault in that they shove everything - game apps, saves, prefs, etc. in the User folder.(user/library/app support/steam) That's why steam games are isolated to one account. It's asinine that it works this way (app support should never actually have applications) but there you go.

To share the data, move /user/Library/Application Support/Steam/ to /Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Steam/ and then in each account run this in the terminal:

if [ -d "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/" ]; then rm -rf "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/" fi; ln -s "/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Steam/" "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/"

If you want your Steam games to appear on your launchpad, Create an Application Shortcut and move it to your /Applications/ folder

Thanks for the reply! But I do have one issue...
I moved the file and ran the Terminal code, but when I launch a game is says it is missing the executive file. Do you know how to fix this?

[Perfect Player]

Make sure that you did that terminal code on each account.
If that doesnot help try to verify game cache (Alt Click on your game -> properties -> local files -> veverify integrity of game cache)