@thomasbrushdev My @s8box games start instantly :) Hotloading is also great for testing things!
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The optimization phase of game development involves making tiny tweaks you suspect are causing major hiccups in the game, and then staring at this for 8 hours a day over and over and scrolling social media on your phone:
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@KT_9_10 I used them today to have an ghost enemy fly in circles while in an idle state. I also use sin to have this same ghost enemy hover up and down. Useful stuff!
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We would like to thank @MegaCrit for another year of sponsorship. This time, upgrading to Corporate Platinum! We were supposed to post this earlier but we were all busy playing Slay the Spire 2 🫡
fund.godotengine.org
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@gabefollower How is it made, are devs able to make a game using S2 or only licensed collaborators?
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Garry Newman shared that Facepunch finalised the licence agreement with Valve to release projects created on Source2 using S&Box as separate games on Steam, completely royalty-free. The first of these may be "My Summer Cottage", created by Small Fish.
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@ZPostFacto Interesting thread! Been diving into hobby development and AI has been a great tool to answer stupid questions I'm afraid to ask in the forum. 🤫
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I am curious how well it'd do on some "real work" like the entire Source2 codebase with all of the games we are making using it. We currently don't give any models access to any of our source code, and nobody is doing agent-in-the-loop.
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Finally getting around to doing some real vibe coding for a side project. (BSA Troop web site.) Before, my use of AI was just chatting with ChatGPT and cut and pasting responses. I finally installed copilot and have an agent in the loop that can read the repository and edit files.
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@s8box Seeing Sam Pavlovic in the blog is always a great sign!
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Another week, another update! 🛠️ Fixes, Optimizations, Mapping, Sandbox progress and more. Check out what we've been up to:
sbox.game/news/update-26…
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@Notravian @OmniMain @sourcegallery1 Garry did put on his twitter that they are considering changing the name before release
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S&box, the spiritual successor of Garry’s Mod made in Source 2, is now set to release in April 2026 and for a potential price of 20$.
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@The_Hambone1988 @BenjiGameDev I think this is not true. Which ones?
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@BenjiGameDev Altho I do agree with this advice it's interesting how a lot of the mega successful indie games were 5+ year projects and it was often their very first game. I can name a few.
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it's easily the #1 piece of gamedev advice
and new gamedevs absolutely do *not* want to hear it 😂
Code Monkey@UnityCodeMonkey
My #1 recurring tip to all Unity devs: Make many SMALL games, not one big "dream" game. Every finished project teaches you: - Scope management - Realistic estimates - Real player feedback - What genres actually sell! If you spend 5 years working on a single game, you will only learn those lessons once, whereas if you make 10 games in those 5 years, you will learn 10 TIMES the lessons in the same timeframe! This is the closest thing to a "secret" behind long-term indie success. If you truly desperately want to make massive games then my advice is make them in parts. For example make one small game all about your Combat mechanics, then another small game about your Exploration mechanics and another one all about your clever Building system. Once you've made all 3 of those games, you can analyze what worked and what you could improve in all those individual systems/mechanics and put them all together in one massive game!
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Indirect Light Volumes finally out to the public🫡
sbox.game/news/update-26…
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did a thing to reject useless probes from interpolation on top of relocation
no lights on scene, just skybox inference, we might've actually hit the jackpot bros
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Sandbox innovation re-imagining hydraulics with controls and visuals for even more creative builds 🧠🏗️
More at 👇
sbox.game/news/update-26…
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@MjTheHunter You at least need to know how to implement the sound files handed to you, which could be a challenge in itself. Good luck!
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@noobtrooper40 Very intentional...
My hope is I can get some funding and pay someone to do sound/music. Because I absolutely cannot do it
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@DARUSSIANBADGER @Jaiydanimate You mean the s&box movie maker?
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@Jaiydanimate no I think source 2 is superior to any other option including blender and unreal because the workflow is so so so much faster
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animating in 3d software is so funny because its like "oh you wanna do cool stuff in source? yeah you gotta learn blender. oh you wanna do cool stuff in unreal? yeah you gotta learn maya. oh you wanna do cool stuff in blender? yeah you gotta download an older version of blender."
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An overwhelmingly positive response to open-source, movie maker animations, balloons and wheely good wheels 🛞🎬🎈
sbox.game/news/update-25…
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@hazeisapet @s8box It is not yet possible, but is planned to be possible on release. As far as i understand. Check out sbox.game for more info.
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s&box is now open source — we're pleased to share our .NET 10 game engine source under the MIT license.
Our goal with the play fund, royalty free game exporting and open source are all about giving back to the community so everyone wins.
👉github.com/Facepunch/sbox…
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