A specially made steam dedicated server .exe

[joe411]

Because you can't have multiple instances of a game running on steam at one time, it is impossible to home host if you are using steam.
My idea is an .exe that you download off of blockland.us. When you open it, it asks you to log into your steam account. Once your logged in, you can use it as it was a regular dedicated server.
Is this a good idea?

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[otto-san]

for it to work with steam there'd have to be some goofy thing similar to this i guess

[RarwMuffinz]

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Create a text file in your /steam/steamapps/common/blockland folder, name it "Blockland Dedicated Server.bat". Right click on it and press 'Edit'. Write "start Blockland.exe -dedicated". Open Steam and press "Add a non steam game". Navigate to the file we just created and select that. If it requires that the file is an executable binary instead of an MS_DOS program, use this fruity number.

[otto-san]

does that get around the whole steam 'only one at a time' thing

[RarwMuffinz]

does that get around the whole steam 'only one at a time' thing

On a mac it wont work because of the way macs start applications. It will just bring the program to the front. On a pc it will work. On either it will not give you the "Failed to start game: already running" error.