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The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

s&box is not a Garry's Mod sequel, it's a Roblox wannabe full of FOMO paid cosmetics and that runs like shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Shit, really? I hadn't kept up with the news on it. That majorly sucks.

    I guess it makes some sense. A lot of other games and "creation systems" have come out since and somewhat ate garrysmod's lunch in terms of "digital sandbox with a shit ton of included resources that you can build other games in". Plus, game engines themselves have become a lot more accessible to new developers than they once were.

    Like, what was competing with Garry's Mod when it was bigger? Flash? BYOND? Second Life?

    Beyond game creation, it did a lot of stuff that no tools existed for just well enough that no one was pushing for dedicated alternatives. Machinima, 3D posing, that sort of thing. But when dedicated tools became more available and easily accessible, it lost that draw too.

    The glacially slow development sure as hell didn't help things either. I have no idea why they didn't more widely release the in-progress builds so the damn thing didn't get completely forgotten.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I love GMod. It will always have a spot on my hard drive.

    But I agree. It takes them at least three months after the fact to release a monthly "patch" that I'm not sure actually does anything.

    It could just be me and the insane amount of addons I've downloaded from the workshop, but it's also really unstable. Like it takes me at least 5-10 minutes to go from launching the game to actually loading into a map; and once I'm there, I need to be careful with whatever I'm doing because even the slightest stutter will crash the game completely.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    oh yay looking forward to having steam flooded by absolute crap

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    • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I really hope this doesn't mean thst instead of one server browser for a wide variety of game modes all using the same common 3D models and textures, it'll be a diaspora of unmaintained free games on Steam.

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    • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    That's certainly an interesting experiment.

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Glad valve lets facepunch do even more child exploitation on their platform, I wonder how the bootlickers feel

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