[Bf-gamedev] Blender on Steam

[SheeEttin]

Jeremiah, is there someone @blender.org on board with this? Can we get
an @blender.org account to submit Blender to Greenlight? (Also, it
looks like you can add contributors to a product once it has been
submitted to Greenlight, so we don't have to share an account.)

And I'm sure we could raise the $100 in no time if there was a
campaign on indiegogo or gofundme. I'd be happy to promote it around
reddit, but again it'd be better if we could put an @blender.org
behind it.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jeremias Boos <Jeremias.boos at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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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