I got my RPG Maker game on Steam and so can YOU! (HOW-TO)

“So what?”, you say?

You’re right. It’s not necessarily big deal. Lots of RPG Maker games have made it to Steam. But I’m posting this up because the process was a lot more difficult than I thought it should be and I believe that what I’ve learned can help others after me. So…

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STEP 1: Setting the stage…

Before you begin this, Make sure you update your version of RPG Maker. Luckily, I made a video that can help guide you through the process. You can find it HERE! I tried to make it easy to understand with a reasonable plan of action.

STEP 2: A Clockwork OrangeGreenworks.

There is a plugin you can download called OrangeGreenworks that works with the file found in the Steam SDK so you can add achievements and other things. This part really held up because the two different tutorials for it didn’t really help with putting it together. I worked with someone on RPG Maker’s forum, BreakerZero who helped me get the plugin to work. You can download the file for it below:

OrangeGreenworks. <== download this!

You’re also going to need to download the actual Greenworks files to get this plugin to work.

I’ll show you how to use this later on…

IF you follow the tips in the picture, your search should look something like THIS! Just click the box next to “Architecture“ and click ‘Download‘ to the far-right to download all the files.

STEP 3: SDKadabra!

Getting the Steam SDK will be integral to this process. Luckily, Steam has made them easy to get from their site. If you click the link in the sentence, “You can download the latest version of the Steamworks SDK here.”, you’ll get the latest version of it. Installation instructions coming up.

STEP 4: “Oh yeah. It’s all coming together!”

4a.

Unzip the Steamworks .zip you should’ve downloaded earlier to its own folder and then copy and paste the OrangeGreenworks.js file into your RPG Maker Game Project’s plugins folder. Just turn it On in the Plugin Manager.

4b.

Now go back to your Steamworks folder and copy and paste the greenworks.js file into your game’s project folder.

4c.

Create a new folder in your Project called lib. This will be useful in the next steps…

4d. (1)

After you’ve downloaded the files from STEP 1, Unzip the ZIP file into its own folder.

4d. (2)

Double-click the folder that you just created.

4d. (3)

You’ll find another folder to open. Do so.

4d. (4)

Another one…

4d. (5)

Copy all these files and paste them into the lib folder you created earlier.

4e. (1)

Unzip the Steam SDK zip folder into its own folder.

4e. (2)

Double click to open the folder.

4e. (3)

Here’s what you’ll see. You’ll click the folder named ‘public’.

4e. (4)

Double-click this folder.

4e. (5)

And this one…

4e. (6)

You need to open these folders and copy and paste the files inside into your Project’s lib folder. However, in the linux64 folder, you will rename the ‘libsdkencryptedappticket.so‘ file to ‘libsdkencryptedappticket64.so‘, then copy/paste to lib.

4e. (7)

Go back to the sdk folder and then double-click the redistributable_bin folder and repeat the last step. Here you will change the name of the files in the linux64 and windows64 folders to have 64 at the end, like in the last step example ( ‘libsdkencryptedappticket64’ ). Once done, copy the files (not folders) to lib.

4f. Here’s other files you’ll need to copy to lib. You’ll need them!

4g.

Here’s how you’re lib folder should look when you’re done.

STEP 5: The Home Stretch

Now this is where things get a little easier. This is where you’ll be using the Script button in the Event Command editor (second to last button in the second column in the third tab). Once there, you’ll mostly use this script call:

OrangeGreenworks.activateAchievement('');

5a.

Hopefully at this point, you’ll already have things set up on Steam for your game. Click on the Steamwork Admin link for your game.

5b.

Once in the game, go to the Stats & Achievements tab and click Achievements.

5c.

Make a new achievement. You can change the API Name (the one that starts with (“NEW-ACHIEVEMENT”) for it to whatever you want.

5d.

Be sure to note the achievement’s API Name.

5d.

Go to the Script button in the Event Commands editor.

5e

Here’s the script call you use.

5f.

This is where you use the API Name. Just copy/paste it between the quotes in the script call.

Aaaaannddd… you’re done! You can find the video walkthrough on my Patreon!

By the way, Slime Kingdom has made it to Steam. It has a FREE Episode 0 scene with some battling to play with. Be sure to check it out. Episode 1 will be released SOON!