Corrosive Supporters,
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to drop by real quick and mention this. Some of you may have noticed a few small updates to Waste Walkers, Disgraced, and Lawless Lands, last night. I was adding a quick menu option to the title screen which will let you check out my other games.
Due to the way Steam detects you being in a game or not, the browser which opened the link to my Steam page was being viewed as the game running, so I'm trying to find a work-around. This is a Steam thing and not directly caused by me because the game is spawning a child process and Steam sees that as part of the game itself. As you can imagine, it's quite annoying. All I wanted to do was link my other work.
I'm currently investigating alternative methods in Ruby to combat this. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post here.
What I've tried:
-Thread.new - Steam still thinks the game is running even if the game closes but the browser remains open
-Fiber.new - Steam still thinks the game is running even if the game closes but the browser remains open
Currently Trying:
Separate Batch File - My thinking is that if I have the game just launch a batch file that separately opens the website, independently of the game running, then Steam won't detect it as the game is still running
Thank you for reading.
-Corrosion ːCStudiosː