Steam API Development

Steam API Development

Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation that focuses primarily on online video game distribution. The software provides an API called Steamworks that developers can use to integrate some of Steam’s more popular features into their games, such as social networking features, achievements, and friend lists. 

Steam’s Web API is an HTTP-based API that allows users to access many of the Steamworks features. Among the methods in the Web API are methods to return the latest news for a particular game, return a global achievements list for a game, return an achievement list for a particular Steam user and particular game, and methods to return lists of owned and recently played games for a Steam user.

The API contains public methods that can be accessed from any application capable of making an HTTP request, such as a game client or server. The API also contains protected methods that require authentication and are intended to be accessed from trusted back-end applications.

Artistixe builds cloud-based backends with Steam APIs to give your customers access to your product on any device from anywhere in the world. Whether you start with a single web app or you launch with web, iOS and Android apps, you need Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to allow each client app to communicate with your cloud-based backend application.