[Bf-gamedev] Blender on Steam

[Jeremias Boos]

To submit anything to greenlight you must first verify that you are not 
a scammer an pay at least a 100$ submission fee to certify your account.
The 100$ are going directly to the Child's Play Charity.
Can all be read up here: 
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/about/?appid=765&section=faq

best regards
Jeremias Boos

Am 02.08.2014 20:47, schrieb Sean Olson:
> Never heard of a greenlight starting fee.  Might it be waved?  They
> are already donating a ton of money for Blender Development.
>
> -Sean
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Jeremias Boos <Jeremias.boos at gmx.de> wrote:
>> To give a little update.
>>
>> I created a Blender Foundation Steam account on a E-mail address on my own
>> Server with domain.
>> So it should be no Problem to transfer the account to someone else.
>>
>> I also wrote with Boudwejin Rempt from the Krita Team.
>> He said that probably the grates problem with Krita on greenlight was the
>> Exposition to get enough up votes to get through greenlight. And it would be
>> maybe best if Blender could be sold as extra steam version with special
>> steam integration. But I am not sure if that is necessary.
>>
>> I will also write to Steam if there will be any problems with open source
>> program's that don't generate Money over the steam store, but anything i
>> read about that seems to show no problem at all in that direction.
>>
>> Last thing I am a little concerned about is the greenlight starting fee. I
>> don't have exactly that much money to spend. I can give something like 40$
>> but not the full 100$. I thought about to setup a little indigogo campaign
>> to get the money together. But the minimum campaign is 500$ and I have
>> nothing that I could give in return as pledge reward.
>> If I would setup a indigogo campaign everything over the needed 100$ would
>> go to the Blenderfoundation.
>> What are you thoughts about that?
>>
>> best regards
>> Jeremias Boos
>>
>> Am 25.07.2014 20:47, schrieb Jeremias Boos:
>>
>>
>> Am 25.07.2014 18:06, schrieb brita:
>>
>> For my personal clarification, what exactly does 'Blender on Steam' involve?
>>
>> I did a small research at the start of my gsoc to see if I could help with
>> this and what I understood was:
>> - steam would act as a 'publishing' platform for blender, where you could
>> actually just download blender. Is this correct? (this can be done already)
>>
>> Yep that would be the main target, at first. I see Steam as a nice way to
>> bring Blender to more people and have an automated system for updating
>> Blender.
>> Also you have the possibility to make Beta branches. So maybe it would also
>> a good way to deliver nightlys and rcs to a broader audience.
>> Also does Steam support synchronisation to some degree. So it would be
>> possible to have your settings.blend synchronised on all Blenders that are
>> installed over Steam.
>>
>> - the steam workshop donations, are for *steam workshop* that is basically
>> an interface for users to share, discover and install mods for their games.
>> meaning:
>>     - the goal is to support tool integration aiming for game modding
>> (building assets for games is the most common, but also levels and and
>> behaviour may be supported). There is already the FBX work here, for tool
>> integration.
>>     - the games implement a part of the steam workshop api, specifying what
>> can be modded, what they accept, etc
>>     - the tools (blender!) also implement a part of the API as a way of
>> exporting. Somewhat like the sketchfab addon, but instead of uploading to
>> their website, it get uploaded to steam via their api, saying what it is and
>> how it can be used.
>>     - steam workshop connects these too together making everything nice for
>> the user
>>
>> That would be the next step, if someone wants to do it. Maybe this is
>> something that is a valid target for GSOC.
>>
>> So what are we talking about here? Making an official account? Getting
>> blender downloadable on steam? Implementing the API to export content from
>> blender into steam workshop?
>> Also, please correct me if I understood something wrong.
>>
>> That is basically the plan. With only the exception that I am not skilled
>> enough with the Blender Python API or Code base to make the
>> Exporter/Importer stuff. So that would be the Task for an other volunteer.
>>
>> As to the first too options, they are more of a marketing decision, so I
>> leave it to Ton. The implementation of the api, as interesting as it could
>> be, is not really game engine related and therefore out of the scope of my
>> gsoc, so I didn't look further.
>>
>> --
>> Inês Almeida
>>
>>
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