Steamapi Writeminidump ((free)) -

Someone had weaponized Steam’s own crash reporter.

Tonight, he decided to fight fire with fire. He wrote a small tool to intercept the crash—a debugger’s debugger. He launched the game, flew his own ship into the most chaotic boss fight, and waited. SteamAPI WriteMiniDump

Three dots appeared. Then:

Leo scrolled back. There it was. Buried under a mountain of greenlight feedback. A single, polite bug report from “Michael V.” – closed with a default response. Someone had weaponized Steam’s own crash reporter

The implementation involves hooking into your engine's crash handler and calling the Steam function. Basic Syntax He launched the game, flew his own ship

That means SteamAPI_WriteMiniDump (and the entire error‑reporting system it belongs to) is being actively developed and will eventually be removed or replaced. For new projects, Valve recommends adopting more modern crash‑reporting solutions.