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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
Agent_KaryoThe sequel to legendary game creation sandbox Garry’s Mod launches in April, and Facepunch have struck a deal with Valve to let you publish creations on Steam.
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wizardbeardI 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.
MrGabr
RiQuYs&box is not a Garry’s Mod sequel, it’s a Roblox wannabe full of FOMO paid cosmetics and that runs like shit.
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.
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.
Herbal Gameroh yay looking forward to having steam flooded by absolute crap
QuinnyCodediirc you have to pay $100 to upload a steam game, so not nearly as bad as you are assuming
AlcyonariaGlad valve lets facepunch do even more child exploitation on their platform, I wonder how the bootlickers feel
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I can’t wait.
Finally a good alternative to Roblox.
Honestly, I have no fucking clue what Roblox even looks like. I have been hearing about it for years but not a single forum post or article has ever had a screenshot.
Really stupid grift for kids.
Theres millions of better games. But kids and parents are idiots.
I’m not going to play any game about blocks with little kids in it
I don’t think you missed much.
It’s clearly just consumerist shit for kids that don’t know any better and the pedophiles preying on them.
It sucks tbh.
I remember:
Moderation problems(even the CEO of roblox started being accused of being a pedophile because he wouldn’t fix the problem, and allowing one of the weird people to a event and i think the event is cancelled,and even displaying the weird people on a game and later removing them), 90% of the games being copies of existing ones (most of the 10% is original but basic concept),axing core features of roblox(replacing faces and forcing realistic characters),being accused of child labour(for being a “childrens website” and them taking 30%),accused of hiring third world people for their Moderation,Forced AI(LLM),axing Linux to implement a anticheat(should be a red-flag tbh), Corporate greed?(removing lifetime builders club),etc.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
Bolster up bae, a new generational trauma just been announced
Maybe Half Life 3 can be made this way.
What are these words
Good question, I looked it up:
The rest is because the premise is based on an earlier simulator game (by a different developer afaik) My Summer Car, which also takes place in Finland (though that is the 1990s)
I thought it was a play on the Japanese series My Summer Vacation, lol
Ah, should’ve known it was the UK again…
My Summer Cottage is the name of the game, which I imagine is some kind of Finnish Life Sim?
Does it support Linux?
Seems like it, interestingly they also open sourced it
It runs does not mean it supports it. So we need to see how this turns out in the future. The compatibility could break with future requirements and changes. I’m just worried because Garry is not a very Linux friendly.
skippity shit hole