For the Twitch streamer overlay i really like the Dota2 one ! You can hover items and spells on Twitch for having the details about it's make things more clear (Well until the observer switch to a other character haha) but yeah a lot of good stuff can be achieve through API and for me it's also a sign of a engaging community ! But since the game will be released on Steam maybe a lof of stuff will be created directly into the Steam Forum ou the Workshop section.
Oh good to know about Dota2! I'm really curious to see how the APIs are implemented and how much they lean on existing tech in Steam. I was playing around with the Workshop APIs for Age of Empires II and I noticed a few that I'm interested in are publisher APIs, like leaderboards, and aren't consumable by users the way the Community APIs were in SC2. I'm wondering if there's a way to build on those APIs anyway, or if a developer needs to roll their own solution to expose that data externally.
For the Twitch streamer overlay i really like the Dota2 one ! You can hover items and spells on Twitch for having the details about it's make things more clear (Well until the observer switch to a other character haha) but yeah a lot of good stuff can be achieve through API and for me it's also a sign of a engaging community ! But since the game will be released on Steam maybe a lof of stuff will be created directly into the Steam Forum ou the Workshop section.
Oh good to know about Dota2! I'm really curious to see how the APIs are implemented and how much they lean on existing tech in Steam. I was playing around with the Workshop APIs for Age of Empires II and I noticed a few that I'm interested in are publisher APIs, like leaderboards, and aren't consumable by users the way the Community APIs were in SC2. I'm wondering if there's a way to build on those APIs anyway, or if a developer needs to roll their own solution to expose that data externally.