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Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs by Animats on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:04PM (#18222668)
The available tools for game development are better than ever and widely available. The problem is that users expect AAA title quality, and that's a big job.

If you want to develop inside an existing environment, there are the virtual worlds - Minecraft, SineSpace, High Fidelity, Sansar, and Second Life. Even 3DXchat, which is supposed to be porno but has enough building tools that people are using it for other things. SineSpace is very developer friendly right now. Few users, but nice tools.

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Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs by trq_ on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:22PM (#18222814)
That's what was so great about editors like Warcraft 3, you get the AAA feel for free.
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Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs by dx87 on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:36PM (#18222946)
That also conflicts with people's expectations of games to be constantly updated and patched. Valve added a built-in custom game creator for Dota 2, but game designers still run into issues since any breaking changes in Dota 2 can potentially break their games, and Valve doesn't want to maintain two separate copies of the game to appease custom game creators.
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