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Publish your Web Game to Steam using Electron
- The guide discusses the process of packaging a web game as a desktop app for Steam using Electron.
- It covers testing the game with Electron, packaging as an NPM/BunJS package, and building the app with electron-builder.
- The guide includes steps to set up the game for Electron, installing NPM, and setting up GitHub workflows for building the game.
- It explains creating a main.js file for Electron execution, generating icons using icon-gen, and building the app with electron-builder.
- Setting up GitHub workflows for different OS builds is detailed, along with the setup of proper permissions and generating a Personal Access Token.
- The guide emphasizes pushing the code to GitHub, creating a repo, and running the build workflow manually.
- Publishing the game on Steam is mentioned as a future step, while the guide encourages following for more content.
- It provides information on the author, Jack Le Hamster, and showcases other games available on Steam.
- The process involves creating a GitHub workflow to automate packaging the game into desktop apps for various OS.
- Details on setting up GitHub Actions permissions, generating token, and triggering the workflow are included.
- Upon successful setup, all artifacts should be available in the repo's release section for download and distribution.
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