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by bangaladore 197 days ago
Looks like a serious competitor to Unity. Modern C# is really easy to pick up for beginners (that's actually how I started learning programming back around 2010).

What does monetization look like? Can you ship standalone games? Source 2 licensing requirements? Is this closer to Unity or closer to Roblox when it comes to publishing?
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unavailableuser 197 days ago
You can't ship standalone games yet, they're currently in talks with Valve, lawyers talking to lawyers to try and make this happen. Right now, they have a Play Fund, and pay creators for minutes played, similar to Fortnite. This is definitely closer to Roblox for now, but yeah standalone coming soon hopefully..
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needle0 197 days ago
A major advantage of using modern game engines is the multiplatform support. This seems pretty weak on that front.
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bangaladore 196 days ago
I haven't look into it much, but, Source 2 supports all major desktop platforms and even all mobile platforms. Dotnet supports all those platforms as well.

So I'm not certain why S&box is Windows only, but my guess is that's just temporary.

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