s&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.
BYOND mention, nice. Such an underrated part of gaming history.
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.
Looks like the latter
That’s certainly an interesting experiment.
Glad valve lets facepunch do even more child exploitation on their platform, I wonder how the bootlickers feel
