Steam Grid Icons

[scarmullet]

If you are a PC gamer like I am, then you must know of Steam. Steam for me at least has become the centerpiece of my PC gaming experience, allowing me to organize my games into one central location, allowing me to locate any game I want with ease. This is helped by the fact that you can load games you did not buy off the steam network into the program, creating a repository of just fun....but if you have alot of games not bought off of steam, your library will probably look like this



it just looks ugly and unappealing. But there is something you can do about it, you have the ability to add in custom icons in grid mode, greatest idea ever...

I was thinking that maybe we could build a repository of Steam icons for games not normally found on the steam store, like games on GOG or games you have running in some launcher program (like Exult for Ultima 7, or Wolf R4 for Re-Volt), or DOSbox.

here are some I did recently as well as a small template. Note I just started this today, so...yea

Ultima IV
https://www.box.com/s/rcg3gxrem4izmp0xw2yw

Ultima VIII
https://www.box.com/s/df86kw0lch9xbwc5zfaf

template
https://www.box.com/s/r1user0ib0xla59hu7fk

how does everyone feel about this?

[JDavis]

It's a cool idea, I guess.

I usually just launch non-Steam games from shortcuts outside of Steam, though.

[Umbra]

I was thinking of posting about this but someone beat me to it

I have like upwards of a hundred games in Steam (mostly non-Steam), so I have a whole flickr album devoted to my Grid Icons. Check it if you want: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCcsiji
I have tons of old DOS/not recent games, so I was pretty happy when they added that.

[scarmullet]

I just did another one, for Ultima VII and Ultima VII Part 2. I am running these games through exult, which allows me to put both games and expansions into one executable. The GOG versions has two executable and does not run through exult, which I feel was a mistake on their mistake.

https://www.box.com/s/jzkgnk7f3h9d1xbyqtnb

[JDavis]

Also, the stuff I do launch from Steam, I use the list view.

Honestly, I was never too thrilled with Steam as a means to launch games. Not enough sorting functionality. I've long wanted to put together an interface more like itunes (minus the store) for games, but there's the small hurdle of learning to code a GUI that must be dealt with first.