u/GoldenTV3

▲ 32 r/sandbox

He sees limitless potential in S&Box, and wants it to succeed, predicting that it could permanently change the gaming landscape. And believes it could be the best game engine.

His main issues, concerns and suggestions are

  • It's a bi-polar game. Attempting to be a game engine to create standalone games, but also trying to be a roblox like game platform which incentivizes slop games meant for engagement farming
  • Most games might as well be flash games on addictingamesdotcom
  • Updates break things constantly with no docs on how to update code
  • The docs are awful and even non-existent in some cases. As well as de-loading if internet connection goes out.
  • No docs on how to update code (He had scour through update blogs to figure out why his mod was broken, it was a shaders update, and reverse engineer it to fix his code)
  • S&Box needs a team of technical experts to make well understood docs and tutorials
  • Everyone says to just go to discord on the forum
  • No standardization, so everyone has to make things from scratch - have to make even doors from scratch
  • And because there's no standardization, every game requires GB's of downloading
  • The game competition idea will favor teams of developers over solo devs
  • Has that uncanny fake look to it somewhat like unity games - and no unified art style - Everything looks flat (But this last point is a problem with Source 2 in general)
  • Scenes are a nightmare
  • Microtransactions that are pointless because they can just be free assets put into games
  • S&Box needs it's own IDE instead of requiring a third party IDE like Visual Studio which is filled with bloat

His overall suggestion for S&Box

Drop trying to become a Roblox killer. And dedicate everything to become the best game engine, and monetize via an asset store.

u/GoldenTV3 — 10 days ago