Rock, Paper, Shotgun had a chance to sit down and chat up Valve's Doug Lombardi just minutes after the announcement of Steamworks hit the world. Just what did he have to say that might clear the air about what Steamworks has to offer? Read on to find out!
RPS: So how obvious will the Steam interface be in a game that uses it?The interview is short but contains a lot of interesting information, and not just about Steamworks. Go on, give a read, we'll wait.
Lombardi: Developers are going to be able to skin this stuff so that it’s basically invisible to the user. If they used Steamworks on their disc and didn’t use Steam to distribute you’d install, then have a box come up and say “hey, you have to create this account and unlock the game� and they’d launch and go into the game. The only time you’d see Steam was in creating an account, everything else can be reskinned, auto-updating will be transparent to the user already.