Integrating Unity with Steam - Part One

[@ploopploop]

Dude I never knew it would be this easy to implement. Thank you for the quick and easy tutorial with clear explanations. When I saw the documents I had no clue where to start, it is extremely overwhelming when you are new to steamworks. This guide is still good to go 2 years later.

[@FlagmanJeremy]

Hoping to see the next integration video uploaded soon! (Mostly with Achievements but would love to see the leader board integration as well!) Thanks!

[@toritogames]

I have been struggling to find some proper tutorial or documentation for one week... this video just saved my sanity. Thanks!

[@nattapongc.5066]

I must say thanks to you. There were only bad tutorial about steam integration on the net. But just today found this video, I feel better and very excited to see the up coming tutorials about Steam & Unity implementation. Hope to see next more videos soon.

[@00bushem]

I'm glad you think this is a great help :) I will be working on part 2 very soon

[@AlexanderBurrows]

Just found your video while looking up how best to integrate with steam. This has been very helpful and like others have commented would love to see more tutorials. Looks like you are very busy with your game which looks great by the way. Keep up the great work.

[@gnarlykill6373]

man i saw this searched for part 2, you're extremely good at explaining things! i'd love to see more tutorials!

[@shore2k6]

Great tutorial! Eventhough it might not turn to be a series, a big thank you for you very useful and informative video!

[@Pad-StyleDojo]

Looking forward part 2, 3, 4, more and more...thank you for this tutorials.

[@softwaregeezers2905]

Huge thanks for taking the time to do this.

[@GonzaloErloi]

Great video! i need the part 2 just like the air i breath!

[@scarsolp]

Really nice tutorial, looking forward to the next video

[@KasperGrnbakChristensen]

Nice tutorial - i've seen much worse first tutorials on youtube, you did great mate :)

[@HakJakGames]

Dude, you are AWESOME for posting this! So well done. Thank you!

[@VgManiac]

Amazing video Mike. I hope you make one about Lobbies :)

[@blind_neighbourhoodNerd]

dude thanks so much for these. I was suuuuuuper lost thanks man!! cheers

[@ThunderDraws]

great video! I'd love to see some more parts of this, very informative :)

[@daslolo]

this is clean, very zen for a shooter

[@DerClaudius]

Good stuff - keep it coming - still relevant

[@TheWaylandir]

Hi Mike! thanks for the great series!

[@TheWaylandir]

Liked and subbed! This is a great setup guide, looking forward to the next one!

[@mihajlotravels]

Part 2?

[@hermonir]

Excellent tutorial! Would love to see the leaderboard explanation soon ;-)

[@yaonos]

I'm embarrassed about how much quiet joy I got out of knowing the next one was going to be "star5"

[@FireHawkX]

Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make such a nice and detailed video :) Sadly there are no part 2 and up... I am looking for one on how to setup the steam api web key with steamworks to handle microtransactions (yeah i know everyone hates them, but with a free game, we have to survive)

[@hereticstanlyhalo6916]

**HMMMMMMMMM, CAN'T WAIT FOR PART TWO**

[@danfr]

@Mike Bushell, instead of using something other than Awake or aborting when Steamworks it not initialized; You can make your Awake method a Unity coroutine and make it wait until Steamworks is initialized.

[@LoneDev]

Amazing! Could you make a tutorial on how to create a scoreboard using Steam API?

[@fille.imgnry]

Great stuff! Might be good to through in a timeout in your while loop :)

[@00bushem]

Yes I have been adding that in to my Steam Cloud Functions :) good suggestion

[@Bricklemore]

This video is fantastic! Thank you so much!

[@ovidiuchis5332]

Amazing video! Is part 2 out?

[@EpicGamerWorld]

We need part 2!!

[@WintervalleyModels]

Are you still planning on doing the Achievements tutorial? thanks

[@ChrisThomas-lt8jd]

I'm developing a game at the moment. I hope to pub on Steam. One thing that would be of great help, is any kind of examples of how you would handle DLC in Unity, and then how this could be downloaded from Steamworks?!

[@grayjamn]

This tutorial is great, where's Part Deux!? Keep it up man!

[@VirtualAutonomy]

This is great but I wonder if it's possible for someone to spoof the data their client sends (to a multi-user medium, like a scoreboard) to either show a different name or rating. Have you looked into some kind of authoritative setup and how you'd validate player ID via the server connection. I'm assuming your game has a dedicated server, if not then my point is moot. I suspect you also talk about it in your later videos going by how thorough you are here. Thanks for posting, very enlightening and useful to hundreds of developers using Unity.

[@greenfigure3941]

great tutorial, appreciate it very much! "part 1 " :)

[@danielmunch2219]

You still alive? xD Can't wait to see your second vid ;D

[@VectorGameStudio]

Authentication Token explanation would be cool 😬

[@striker181187]

Hey :) I just wanted to say thanks for this. Recently got Greenlit myself and this made my life sooo much simpler for integration, woulda taken me days/weeks to figure some of this out hehe. On a side note, a quick question if you don't mind. The SteamUserStat, star1-star5 you are setting and getting, are they stored in Steam somewhere or something local you are doing?

[@00bushem]

Excellent, I'm glad to be able to help! The stats are stored locally in the steam client if the internet connection has failed, however nearly all the time. The information will come from the steam servers. When you call set stat, the stat will remain in the Steam client, ready for upload to Steam on exiting your game, unless you call storestats, and that will call the upload. This is especially important for achievements.

[@DitzelGames]

Amazing Tutorial

[@nattapongc.5066]

Yeah, I have been waiting for your next Steam integration videos already for about 7 months. When will you release your next Stem Integration video? PLEASE.

[@AdrianGarcia-tf3us]

We need the Part 2

[@Kreesty]

Where is part 2 bro? I really need to know how to implement steam stats.

[@SERVER1992]

Thank you so much for this video!!!

[@FrostyChilli]

Hello! Any chance of uploading a tutorial about leaderboards? Thank you!

[@theowlprophecygamestudio6903]

One issue I had - if you are getting [Steamworks.NET] SteamAPI_Init() failed, double check you are logged into the correct Steam account. I was logged in under my personal account and not my business account and it took me awhile to figure out what I was doing wrong.

[@ChumperDumper]

When you define the new Rect, why are you using hard coded numbers for it? Can't you just pass width and height to avoid any unforeseen errors?

[@DevilsWaffle]

I'm studying UI at school and would love if you were to share some of your tips with building such a gorgeous UI in Unity for your game. Any eta for something like this?

[@00bushem]

Good evening! Yes I have a long list of subjects I want to cover :) between now and the end of January I'll be making time to do as many guides as possible

[@DevilsWaffle]

Mike Bushell Sounds awesome! Although I'm sure you don't need any help making UI yourself, I'd love to share with you my progress as I dive deep into exploring UI in Unity.

[@stanislawtruchowski8570]

Once we have initialized the project with steam, to activate achievements, is it as simple as putting code in as: if(!steam_get_achievement("Example_Achievement")) steam_set_achievement("Example_Achievement); or is there more to it? I am really struggling hard right now with achievement integration, and I cannot seam to find a simple source to give me information. I would really appreciate a response! And great video! It did bring me much insight towards the matter. Best regards, Stan.T

[@DobleFun]

Next video?

[@frostmusicofficial]

Shame you never continued this series, been trying to implement a friends list/invite system...

[@00bushem]

Frost unfortunately I was about to breach my NDA on the steamworks landing page!! Happy to lend a hand with friends lists and invites

[@frostmusicofficial]

That would be awesome, although I'm not sure if it would be able to use steam invites because I read somewhere that you need to use some sort of steam networking for that to work, and I happen to be using UNET, and I am far too deep in my game to start over now.

[@00bushem]

Frost you can still use it, and handle basic information transfer. I built my entire PC multiplayer without using anything else

[@frostmusicofficial]

okay cool, so if you would be fine with helping a fellow dev out anytime, just shoot me a message :) email: [e-mail]

[@frostmusicofficial]

Also, this question is probably really advanced but I might as well throw it out there. Would I be able to use steam to sync player stats (kills/deaths/player rank/loadouts etc) over steam servers? because right now this data is stored locally and for a multiplayer game, that just wouldn't work.

[@togloryx2471]

Can you show on how to add steam achievements?

[@jeffclark5206]

How did you do the emissive UI?

[@ytubeanon]

Your Arena 3D game's style looks so tight it has been motivating me, can you tell me some of the assets being used? I would guess 'Curved World' for the planet, I just started learning Vectrosity, do you use that for the ship and UI vector elements? The audio sounds are so full of bass and rich, do you use stuff like Shaderforge or other A.I./coding packages? cheers

[@00bushem]

ytubeanon I haven't used any Assets, everything is all made from scratch and using/adjusting Unity's built in shaders

[@ytubeanon]

I see, well then I look forward to any tutorials you may release.

[@meltpack8876]

how did you add a glow to the UI?

[@RalexArt]

Cool game!

[@mogacreative409]

30K view and 600 Likes.. I think Part Two and Part anything else would be in high demand... slap some commercials on it and get paid... we want it

[@mathjazz8102]

PART 2! PART 2! PART 2!

[@TheIDCh]

What recording app did you use?

[@JustKatoh]

Thank you so much!

[@ilhameffendi2737]

thank you! so helpful :)))))

[@socialsensei1855]

How did you learn Unity? How did you practice?

[@00bushem]

All self taught :) anything I couldn't do I would use Google and the basic Unity tutorials

[@socialsensei1855]

Thanks, what tutorials did you read or watch?

[@00bushem]

+SocialSensei unity3d.com/learn/tutorials this is a great starting point

[@SERVER1992]

Again thank you!!!

[@Benzitczo]

Part two??????????????

[@angel-le2xn]

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT A SERVER LIST TYPE THING LIKE CS 1.6 DOES WITH STEAM????

[@jvcss]

very good!

[@MaydayAlish]

SetStats doesn't work even though I store the data. It returns false. I've created the stat from steamworks but it doesn't work. My game is not on the release. Why are stats not working ?

[@00bushem]

Ali Dal have you made sure to set the correct app id?

[@MaydayAlish]

Hi Mike I found that it takes time after publishing the stat is active I think. It started to work immediateliy. Thanks man !

[@ATOMRPG]

Thanks!

[@00bushem]

You're welcome! Will be working on the next part soon

[@GonzaloErloi]

And the part two? :'(

[@Mondzo]

:/ star do not work :(

[@electrified9297]

So If I do that how can I ban players? Can I?

[@richardrichardhaleysguitar8810]

Hey can someone please give me the full Steam Manager script

[@filipjastrzebski4591]

Why my name didn't load to unity by SteamFriends.GetPersonaName(). What should I do?

[@filipjastrzebski4591]

Okay, it's doesn't metter ;P IT'S WORKING!

[@googleuser4720]

LOL no part 2, geez

[@MrSkyNightHD]

I want to create a game (not on Steam) but that we can sign in with a steam account and check the inventory. Anyone can help me ?

[@Benzitczo]

thanks get avatar!

[@dasmaffin1633]

Why do you say in part two even if you never made one? I need this shit so bad I just cant figure it out and there is literally nothing on youTube that explains how it works