gameinfo.txt

GoldSrc

Source

The purpose of gameinfo.txt is to describe the mod to Source and Steam. It's a text file that can be opened and manually edited on any text editor, or can be edited using XBLAH's Modding Tool using an intuitive interface, that provides all the available fields for edition.

Key/Values

Mod information

game <string>

The name of the game or mod as it will appear in the window's title bar. For games or mods not self-published on Steam, this will also be shown in Steam's library (the opposite being the name of the application in Steamworks itself).

icon <string>

Steam will use this value as the file name without extension for the icon in the library. If you set a value of foo, then Steam will seek for foo_big.tga first or foo_big.png second. foo.tga will also be used as the icon for the window's title bar.

developer <string>

The name of the developers that created this game/mod.

developer_url <string>

Link to the developers website or something else.

manual <string>

Link to the manual of the game/mod on the Internet.