If you're a gamedev releasing on Steam: PLEASE MAKE A DEVELOPER PAGE
You are literally leaving community on the floor when you launch a game without one, players can't follow you on Steam without that page being defined
I'm even seeing PUBLISHERS forget to make one
Please, just do the needful 😭
Oh! oh @Robin_Van_Ee made a good point:
ALSO MAKE SURE YOUR DEV PAGE IS LINKED TO ALL YOUR GAMES
It isn't (necessarily) an instant process. Like it basically works if you're 100% self published, but for cases where games had multiple devs, publishers, etc?
You can manually add those entries to your dev page too! I think the current "owner" has to ok it or start the process or something.
EDIT: and confirmed, a single game can be linked to multiple developers (like for co-developed games), pretty sure you can have one link per displayed name as you'd expect
@glassbottommeg Yes, you can link multiple developers. And regardless of how many entities are working on your game you'll have to link the page manually (maybe only once per name?).
Either way don't assume it works, you should check the preview of your store page and click the link. It should link to your curator page.
@runevision I HOPE that's a thing where the dev didn't know to ask and the publisher would have if it was pointed out but
yeeeaaaahhhhh
That seems like such a shady fucking thing, and I see it constantly
@glassbottommeg It's #2 on my quick tips for devs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/6133/
so many indie devs not doing the actual important stuff lol
@gamingonlinux not GAME store page. I mean Developer page.
It's what comes up when someone clicks your name in the developer or publisher field.
If you haven't defined one, best case, it just pulls up a list of all games associated with that name. But notably won't let you follow that dev.
Worst case, it pulls up the PUBLISHER'S page when someone hits your studio name, and nobody even realizes you're a separate entity.
@ipsquiggle yeah!
Like this is important for dev knowledge but like, I just personally get frustrated when I click that button and get nothing.
I wanna see what other games THEY made, not their publisher, come on.
@louis @glassbottommeg The developer page has this kind of link (it's mine) : https://store.steampowered.com/developer/tomlabgames/
I guess people who subscribe to this page are notified when a new game is added.
More info here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/creator_homepage
@Gamrok @glassbottommeg Yeah, after some searching, I finally found it. Can't believe I hadn't heard of this before.
For those who have a steam developer account, here's the relevant doc page: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/creator_homepage
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