u/Mr_H115

I shaded 60 Achievements Manually; Never again, I built an app to do it for me, amongst other things.

I shaded 60 Achievements Manually; Never again, I built an app to do it for me, amongst other things.

Hi all, hope you're doing well!

Back when I was making Sunset Sprout, I reached a point where I wanted to make icons for my achievements, I tried to use Achievement shades on steam but it never worked for me!

So I did all my 60 achievement shading manually, which was a bit annoying; now that I am starting work on my new Game Edin's Gate, I thought of making a tool to make all these image related things easier, less friction, and since I am a MonoGame dev, I thought about sharing it here!

so, Kur Forge Toolkit is a desktop app with 12 fully offline functions (for now)

such as:

  • Store Asset Generator — Steam and Itch.io images from your key art
  • Achievements Generator — locked icon variants with shading, patterns, and lock overlays
  • Press Kit Package — PDF info sheet, screenshots, and assets zipped and ready
  • Watermark Generator — text or image watermarks, tiled or positioned
  • Favicon Generator — every standard size as PNG and ICO
  • Image Converter — batch convert between PNG, JPG, and WEBP

and a lot more.

App Dashboard

I know there are other tools out there that do some of this — this is just my version; built around the things I personally kept running into as a solo dev.

Check it out here Kur Forge Toolkit

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u/Mr_H115 — 6 days ago

Hi all, When I was developing Sunset Sprout, I needed a lot of Steam specific features, and it was such a pain to get them to work, specially with my very limited knowledge of how the web and apis and such things work, I couldn't understand the error to begin fixing it!

So after finally getting Sunset Sprout to the finish line, I thought of making a drop & use Monogame Kit for Steam, call from anywhere in your code, three steps of setup is all you ever need!

SteamKit

Showcase Video (Video editing is not my passion)

This is an example on how it works!

Usage of setting Achievements.

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u/Mr_H115 — 28 days ago