Valve's Kutta Srinivasan on Steam Mobile

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Kutta Srinivasan is a software engineer at Valve, and he's one of the core people behind Steam Mobile as we know it today. The first time we heard about Srinivasan and the concept of Steam for the mobile platform was in this Podcast 17 interview, which also featured an appearance by Gabe Newell.

Recently, with Gamasutra at GDC 2012, Srinivasan talked a little bit about what went into the beta version of the app, and what's currently on their growing list of future features.

One look at the new app, and it's clear that you're in the Steam service. Despite being on a smaller screen with a different layout, the design aesthetic is very reminiscent of its PC counterpart.

Achieving a UI that is "uniquely Steam across multiple platforms" was a major goal for the team. The company wanted to do so without "sacrificing usability paradigms to which customers on a particular platform are accustomed."

"In an upcoming [update], the Steam app will be able to act as a two-factor authentication device to bolster the security on your primary Steam account," he said. "If your phone is lost or stolen, simply changing the password on your account will invalidate the tokens used by the application to access Steam."

You can read more of the interview here. And if you have an iPhone or Android and you don't have Steam for mobile yet, you can find more information on the Steam website.