Обзор

Приложно програмния интерфейс на Steam за игралните сървъри предоставя всичко, което Ви е нужно за създаването на специализирани такива на Вашата игра. You can host these game servers yourself, or allow your community to host them for you. This is the best choice for highly competitive games (such as Dota 2) or games with persistent servers that stay around after players leave (such as Team Fortress 2).

Steam сървърен браузър

A large part of the game server experience on Steam comes from the unified server browser.

Players can open the server browser from the steam client or in the Steam слой


You can get the same data as the server browser with the API functions available in ISteamMatchmakingServers.

You can get and interact with the users favorite servers with:

• ISteamMatchmaking::GetFavoriteGameCount;
  
• ISteamMatchmaking::GetFavoriteGame;
  
• ISteamMatchmaking::AddFavoriteGame;
  
• ISteamMatchmaking::RemoveFavoriteGame.

Shipping your game server

If you want to allow your community to host dedicated servers then special considerations may have to be taken when giving them access to the dedicated server files.
See: Разпространяване на специализирания сървър за играта Ви for more information