Valve launches player-written Steam Guides

One day, you'll be able to download groceries through Steam, ingesting the nutrients through a Steam Port at the base of your spine. While Valve is forever expanding the platform in pleasing ways, it's not quite there yet. Still, you can now read and write game guides on Steam, hosted on the Steam Community. This'll likely tie into the hints we've seen of in-game Dota 2 guides, then.

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One day, you'll be able to download groceries through Steam, ingesting the nutrients through a Steam Port at the base of your spine. While Valve is forever expanding the platform in pleasing ways, it's not quite there yet. Still, you can now read and write game guides on Steam, hosted on the Steam Community. This'll likely tie into the hints we've seen of in-game Dota 2 guides, then.

Everyone Steam accounts can write Steam Guides for any software on Steam, jamming in images, videos or tables to make it all shiny like. The Steam Overlay now has a section for guides so you can quickly check things in-game, or you can casually browse from any game's Community Hub.

It seems Valve will tie guides in deeper to some games, though. Dota data digger Cyborgmatt's latest patch rummage shows hooks for pop-up guides with tabs for skill builds and suggested items. Given how complex the game is, it's a fine idea to help players learn 'new' heroes. It's not hard to imagine this being rolled into the Steamworks API for all developers to use if they fancy.

In this rapidly-changing guide environment, I just don't know what to do with my million-dollar idea of having Shakira write a video game tips column named My Tips Don't Lie. Gutted.

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    January 18, 2013 7:30 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Valve launches player-written Steam Guides.

    One day, you'll be able to download groceries through Steam, ingesting the nutrients through a Steam Port at the base of your spine. While Valve is forever expanding the platform in pleasing ways, it's not quite there yet. Still, you can now read and write game guides on Steam, hosted on the Steam Community. This'll likely tie into the hints we've seen of in-game Dota 2 guides, then.

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      January 18, 2013 8:24 AM

      this is effectively making it easier to find those youtube videos with all the answers to your gaming questions... it's a useful tool.

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      January 18, 2013 10:54 AM

      If they effectively integrate these into the Steam Overlay UI that beats out using the web browser, then this is genuinely a very good idea.

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      January 18, 2013 10:55 AM

      Keeps going but then loses its luster again when she is going for town council. Why would a show that totally works take her out of that office? Terrible idea.

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        January 18, 2013 10:56 AM

        Well this isn't the right thread. Fail.

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      January 18, 2013 11:04 AM

      That's a pretty cool if unexpected feature

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