Their engine is called source.
The collection of libraries valve release to use steam (the piping, if you will), is called steamworks.
Also Steam Boxes should have been called Boilers. Maybe then they would have succeeded.
The code name of the first Steam Box, before it was released, was Piston, which fits the theme pretty well. e.g. https://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-box-xi3
You make me feel old for realising people younger than me have not ever realised this. But it makes sense now I type it… out loud(?)
Back in my day the Steam UI was army green and you’d use it to play all the LAN games your mate had by copying their entire Steam folder over to yours a couple hours before the LAN started. And that was it. That was the “install”. You had Steam and all the HL mods like DoD and CS. Primed and ready to get noise complaints from the neighbours.
That’s not why it’s called that. The real reason is that they didn’t bother ever giving it a name. When they needed a stable fork so they could further develop the engine without interfering with the development of Half-Life, they referred to the two source codes “GoldSrc” and “Src” and the name stuck.
Damn, an actual meme, actually used properly, actually saying something new, not re-hashing old content. Damn, I miss the good ol days.
My face when I realize the dude in this meme is probably mid-40s these days.
OK explain why the bald man has a red valve on the back of his head?
The toolset they use to run their containerlike system wrapping the games is called “pressure vessel”.
Their Linux containers are called scout for v1, soldier for v2 and sniper for v3.
