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Adding your levels to the Workshop!
By caiys
A guide to adding your custom levels to the Straima Steam Workshop for all chums to enjoy!
   
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It Begins...
Welcome Straibro engineers. In the game's Room Reviser you can make any level your nightmarish heart desires. It's all fully functional, in fact every level in the game was made in it!

Once you've designed your level and tested it, you can save it to the Steam Workshop for others to "enjoy". Anybody subscribed to the game can play it in the Free Play or Party Play game modes, and in the case of Free Play their best times will be saved to that level's Steam leaderboard.

You can also load any of your own levels you've previously uploaded to the Steam Workshop. Note you must also be subscribed to it.

If you head to the Workshop section of your own profile you can see all the levels you've uploaded. Here you can also change things, such as the preview image, description, who can see the level (such as make it friends-only or invisible) and you can delete levels. Note that the level's leaderboards are linked to the level's name, so changing the title of the level will create a new leaderboard!

Local Backup
In the room revisor menu if you click the Steam Workshop icon then it will change to a Local Backup icon. This allows you to save and load your levels manually anywhere on your hard drive. This is useful for a few reasons. Firstly it allows you to easily test out levels before uploading them to the Workshop. Or if you've designed levels in previous versions of Straima then you can load them in here then switch back the Steam Workshop icon to upload them.

Finnickies
The Steam Workshop has some issues to keep in mind. Firstly after uploading new levels or deleting them it can take up to a minute before the game's cache is updated. This means if you save a new level or subscribe then it won't immediately show in the game's level selection screens. Updating levels can also sometimes take a while to fully update the cache so when loading the level through the game it may show a previous version of the level. In this case restarting the game or restarting steam will fully refresh the cache. For these reasons I recommend using the Local Backup option when your testing out your new level designs, and recommend always keeping a Local Backup version for when Steam inevitably craps the bed. :]