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Please add Steam Overlay to Dungeons of Dredmor

Discussion in 'Dungeons of Dredmor General' started by dodanon, Jul 13, 2011.

  1. dodanon

    dodanon Member

    The title pretty much sums up the request: Please consider adding support for the Steam Overlay feature in Dungeons of Dredmor. It is a very handy feature to have (along with Steam Cloud for saves, which I hear is coming down the pipe).
     
    dodanon, Jul 13, 2011
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  2. casualsax

    casualsax Member

    I would like this as well, although I'm not as anxious because I don't see myself running it maximized.
     
    casualsax, Jul 13, 2011
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  3. Noven

    Noven Member

    Yeah, I'd very much like to see this too, I miss the access to Steam chat via the Steam Overlay.
     
    Noven, Jul 14, 2011
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  4. mrpeters

    mrpeters Member

    I completely agree with this!
    I'd love to see the overlay on this game :p
     
    mrpeters, Jul 14, 2011
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  5. howler

    howler Member

    +1
     
    howler, Jul 14, 2011
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  6. dAN0n

    dAN0n Member

    +1
    I think so too.
     
    dAN0n, Jul 14, 2011
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  7. ffschooler

    ffschooler Member

    +1

    Same here!
     
    ffschooler, Jul 14, 2011
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  8. skeena

    skeena Member

    Yeah I wanna take screenshots with f12
     
    skeena, Jul 14, 2011
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  9. dodanon

    dodanon Member

    Just a friendly bump for great justice (and the Steam Overlay feature).
     
    dodanon, Jul 14, 2011
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  10. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Here's the deal with the Steam Overlay: We use WinGDI and DirectDraw, because we're a 2D game and we want to run everywhere. Unfortunately, Steam doesn't support Steam Overlay with these two fine pieces of (elderly) technology. We are working on a work-around, but it's going to take some time to put together and test.

    In the mean time, if you want to take a screenshot, hit CTRL-G and it will dump one to your Save Games folder in Documents/Gaslamp Games/Dungeons of Dredmor.

    -- N.
     
    Nicholas, Jul 14, 2011
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  11. Digital Entanglement

    Digital Entanglement Member

    Ouch, dumps as BMP. When is the next patch going in? We're doing a review right now.
     
    Digital Entanglement, Jul 16, 2011
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  12. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Hopefully Monday. -- N.
     
    Nicholas, Jul 16, 2011
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  13. satoru

    satoru Member

    For anyone who wants, run the game in windowed mode and use a program called "ShiftWindow" which helps with alt-tab issues. This mostly aleviates the need for an overlay.
     
    satoru, Jul 16, 2011
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