Sale Snail (Steam revenue dashboard)

Sale Snail uses the new Steam api to fetch your daily revenue statistics and display them on a little dashboard that can be scaled as you please:

You will need to create a Developer API key, click here to see how to do that (it's as simple as clicking the generate button in Steamworks).

I have provided the source code for this, because it takes your Steam developer API key and I personally would not provide that to some random software I found on itch. If it helps to know, I'm a Steam developer too.

It was written in game maker 1.4, but you could probably import it to GM2 without any issues (which is available for free!).

The code is thoroughly commented.

There's a lot that could be added to this, but the gritty foundation of fetching data from steam, and parsing it, is here. 

- Displays daily revenue, units, activations and refunds

- Also can display individual sales in a list as they come in

- Dashboard window scales to any resolution to fit your needs

- Choose how often it refreshes. By default it's set to 5 minutes but it's totally dependent on when Steam actually pushes new data (for me it's hourly but it varies a lot, especially at night).

- Choose how many recent sale entries are saved in memory before culling.

You can change the above in the %APPDATA% Savedata.ini file

I am open to suggestions, though this is meant to be a small side project so major changes aren't likely to be implemented! 

I think it would be amazing to set this up to text you every hour with revenue statistics, or a summary at the end of the day. I'd be happy to implement some sort of export that you can build such a feature on top of (network packets, or exporting files to disk etc). 

I have experimented also with auto clickers, copying and pasting data directly into client versions of messaging apps, this method works pretty flawlessly if you can be bothered to set it all up, and have an old spare computer laying around. 

Sale Snail is a part of Side Suite, a collection of tools designed to help eliminate the gruntwork for developers.