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This community of Steamworks developers is intended for sharing information regarding Steam and Steamworks development.

Please use the Discussions to ask Steam and Steamworks related questions. You'll also find FAQs and responses to other common questions in there.

And we'll post announcements for relevant updates and changes involving Steamworks SDK.

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Join Us for Steam Sports Fest

March 27 - jennyj | 1 Comments

Join us to celebrate the wide world of sports—everything from world-class football franchises to innovative fictional sports and a lot more in between—during Steam Sports Fest. Featuring discounts and demos on current and upcoming games, this event is for sporting games of all kinds.

Steam Sports Fest runs May 15 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) to May 22 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7).

Registration Details

Please read the Steam Sports Fest documentation for complete details on eligibility criteria and the registration process for this event.

If you have not received an email invitation and believe that you have a game that fits the criteria described above, please check your list of eligible games. If your game is not present there and you believe it meets the listed criteria, please contact us here.

Important Note About Discounts

A discount is not required to participate in Steam Sports Fest, though the event page will most prominently feature discounted games.

All discounts are subject to the same cooldown between discounts, with the only exceptions being the four major Steam seasonal sales. For more details on discounting rules, please see the Discounting documentation.

Reminder: Players want to hear about your game updates!

March 7 - Alden | 18 Comments

[smalltext]The "Patch Notes" link appears in the Steam client download screen. When clicked, it will open the associated post right in that view.[/smalltext]

Whether you've got a big update, a small patch, or anything in between, Steam makes it easy to tell players about your fixes, updates, or new content.

When releasing an update to your game on Steam, you can create an accompanying announcement to describe the changes. Even if you don't have a big meaty update with new content, players are still curious any time they see a game update.

No update is too small to communicate

Players want to know when something changes in a game, even if you have just a few small bug fixes. But we know that you don't always want to display every little patch note on your store page in a prominent way or bump off your bigger more exciting posts. So Steam has a category just for that: "Small Updates / Patch Notes". These posts show up in the Downloads panel of the Steam client and as a small note on your game's store page and in a more compact way on your game's library page.

More visibility for regular and major updates

When you post "Regular" or "Major" update posts, you're expecting that these are more exciting to a wider range of players and something worth sharing on your store page. So the "Regular" and "Major" type announcements in Steam will automatically show up in more places, including a bigger presence on your store page and at the top of players' Steam Library page.

Important! Link your build with a post

When creating your event, whether it's a Major Update, Regular Update, or Small Update, you can now select the Link to Build option, then select the branch you'd like to be associated with your post. By doing this, players will see a link in the Steam client's 'download' window to open and read your notes.

Create your post ahead of time, or on-the-fly

At any time, you can create and stage announcement posts, and simply set them public with your update. Or, you'll also find a convenient prompt that shows up right after setting a new build live, which you can fill with your patch notes and post immediately.