Ni1kko / HourBoostr

Two programs for idling Steam game hours and trading cards
GNU General Public License v3.0
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General information

HourBoostr and SingleBoostr are two applications developed to idle games on your Steam accounts. The two programs work differently - and depending on how you to idle, you may want to pick one over the other. Neither applications require you to have the game you want to boost installed, but you do need to own the game in your library.

HourBoostr

This program acts like a stand-alone Steam client and will require you to enter your Steam account details. The perks of this application is that you can idle several accounts at once, and you do not need to have Steam installed on the PC you are running it on, which means you can rent a VPS and keep it running for weeks on end. So if you're looking to boost multiple accounts at once on accounts you are not using at the time, this is perfect for you. However, if you are only using one account and you also want to be online and play other games or chat with friends, this will not work very well since you can not be logged in at two locations at the same time. If you want this feature, scroll down and read about SingleBoostr. There is no option to farm trading cards with HourBoostr. If you are looking for this feature then check out SingleBoostr. If you want to farm cards on multiple accounts at once I recommend checking out Archi Steam Farm. You can emualate the OS you want to idle hours on (Steam since 2019 allows tracking playtime on different operating system) you can select between three options 'Windows', 'Linux', 'Mac' you can have each account idle with a diferent emualated OS

Video preview of HourBoostr:

SingleBoostr

This program is perfect for you if you only have one account that you want to boost. This program requires you to have Steam installed, however you can be logged into your account and play games and chat with your friends while you are boosting other games with SingleBoostr at the same time. SingleBoostr also offers a great way to farm Trading Cards.

Program preview of SingleBoostr:

Getting started

Prerequisites

Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.0 (or newer), .net framework 4.8 and Windows SDK 11.0.x.x are required in order to compile HourBoostr. If you don't have Visual Studio, you can download it here (Windows SDK is installed during Visual Studio Setup)

Downloading

There are three options of downloading the source code:

Without git

Choose this option if you want pure source and you're not going to contribute to the repo. Download size ~600 kB. To download source code this way click here.

With git

Choose this option if you're going to contribute to the repo or you want to use version control system. Download size ~4 MB. Git is required to step further, if not installed download it here.

Open git command prompt and enter following command:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Ni1kko/HourBoostr.git

HourBoostr folder should have been successfully created, containing all the source files.

With Github Desktop

If you have Github Desktop installed simply paste this into your browser x-github-client://openRepo/https://github.com/Ni1kko/HourBoostr and press enter

Compiling source

When you have equipped a copy of the source code, next step is opening HourBooster.sln in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. Then change build configuration to Release | x86 and simply press Build solution. If everything went right you should receive HourBooster.exe executable file.

Compiling installer

When you have HourBooster.exe, next step is opening HourBoostr.iss with innosetup. Then simply press CTRL + F9 (Build Script). If everything went right you should receive HourBooster_Setup.exe executable file.

License

Copyright (c) 2015-2022 Ezzpify, Ni1kko & Spodini This project is licensed under the GNU License - see the LICENSE file for details.