Steam Game Covers

We've got a great little community of talented cover makers here. Unfortunately not everyone knows about Steam Game Covers. I'd like to share a few ideas for getting more exposure our site and covers. Please feel free to share your own ideas if you have any.

1. Social Media - Facebook, Google+, and Twitter are great ways to spread the word. If you're a part of any of these services then feel free to use them. We even have buttons for them below each cover you upload.



2. Steam Community Hub - every game on Steam has a Community Hub page which is filled with user generated content - discussions, screenshots, artwork, etc... Feel free to post some of your covers under the "Artwork" tab as I have done below.



3. Other Game Cover sites - there are several other game cover sites out there - VG Box Art http://vgboxart.com/ perhaps being the largest. You can upload your work to those sites as well. Below is a sample of one of my covers on another site:



There are many other ways to promote your covers. Please post some of your own and I'll add them to the list above.

Promoting your covers on Steam is a great idea, especially for covers of small indie games.
I did so with my Monaco cover but was too lazy to make any more presentations to share

Another place to publish them would be vgboxart.com. I think I've seen that you uploaded at least some of yours over there PieMonster. I was thinking about doing the same but as I said, I was too lazy to make the presentations.

Cool, will do that

Thanks @Kexikus, I've added it to the list.

I haven't been on VG Box Art in a while. You do need to make fancy presentations to get noticed. Like you, I've also been too lazy to that.

Well, I had planed to do those presentations once I'm done with my exams for this summer. I just hope that I'll really do that

Great idea
I immediately start work, but first a question: how can I create a presentation for the covers like this?



or, for example, like that of Nephilim983

I'm not that experienced with creating presentations but the basics are fairly simple.

First you need to find a box template. VGBoxart has a lot of them over here: http://vgboxart.com/browse-resources/
Then you need to stretch the single parts of your cover (front, spine & back) to fit into that template. If you use Photoshop you can press Ctrl to distort (not sure if that's the right word) the image, so that you get the impression of a three-dimensional box.
That's all I can tell you but I think it should be enough to at least give it a try.

Kexikus wrote:I'm not that experienced with creating presentations but the basics are fairly simple.

First you need to find a box template. VGBoxart has a lot of them over here: http://vgboxart.com/browse-resources/
Then you need to stretch the single parts of your cover (front, spine & back) to fit into that template. If you use Photoshop you can press Ctrl to distort (not sure if that's the right word) the image, so that you get the impression of a three-dimensional box.
That's all I can tell you but I think it should be enough to at least give it a try.

Thanks
Here is my first presentation of Batman AC cover

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... dsuccess=1

Awesome @scopp! I just upvoted it in Steam!

Great work.

And since I won't upload new presentations anytime soon, here's a link to the one I made ages ago. Btw: Go play Monaco, it's amazing
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =209107956