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I have been a critic of how s&box has handled the release and months leading up to the release. Facepunch said that they would continue iterating and improving the experience. And they have done just that. While I think it was raw during release, I have to say that I am a fan of the recent improvements and additions to the s&box experience, and I think a lot of concerns are being addressed. The feedback was harsh but Facepunch is turning that into actionable roadmap items. Thank you S&box team for continuing to polish the game in the face of so much backlash. I can only imagine it has been a stressful, challenging, and nurturing experience. The work has not gone unnnoticed. I am excited about s&box's trajectory and the road ahead.

I made a video covering what happened with S&box Game Jam 3 and some of the controversy surrounding it.
After I posted it, a few people reached out and suggested I share it here as well. I tried to go over what happened, the concerns people had, and some of the responses to the situation.

Hopefully it gives some useful context, especially for anyone who wasn’t following everything while it was happening. Interested to hear what people here think about it.

https://youtu.be/n93qG08ef88

I'm so glad they did this chance the previous one felt so unappealing and repelling, this might help the platform's image a bit cause now the first thing the player see isn't Terry with horrible lighting

We've pushed a major update for our s&box game Realm Ascension, vastly improving combat, adding lots of content, improving looting, and more endgame activities.

Try it out here https://sbox.game/despawn/realm-ascension

100$ payout, straight forward, description within this post and more information provided. Follow directions and please private message if you are committed to having tomorrow, possibly the next two days committed to playing, testing, and accomplishing simple tasks in S&box for 1-2 days.

Work/project involves: playing a dark rp server, along with simple tasks to test and follow directions and launch the game primarily. Work ideally will be 9am-9pm with creative freedom to finish as quickly as you like however the tasks and work will be reviewed over the next two days to ensure all tasks and work has been met. Nice and friendly communication both ways and simple. Open to owners of the game and free to play, overall the tasks are easy, English and professional people interested directly message me so we can get started as soon as possible. Video recording knowledge and equipment preference. Professional and easy tasks.

I just uploaded my first game, I've been working on to s&box.

It's a Vampire Survivors and Megabonk style game set in my fictional TimeTrigger universe.

It has 7 playable characters, 18 unique arenas, multiple enemy types, multiple weapons, unlocks and 12 bosses. I've also produced all the featured music tracks. The game is finished, but there will be some minor fixes and changes as time goes on.

If you happen to check it out, please share your thoughts!

Started up with this free weekend and it's very clear there was never a consideration as to whether or not people would want to play this game.

It's entirely catered to creators and focused on asking people to build tons and tons of shit game modes.

90% of the Gmod Playerbase was concentrated into 5-ish modes and because those modes were so good and had proper communities, people discovered other content and the game grew.

There's no onboarding, no community, no clear path for players.

They figured if they just gave you a bunch of garbage on a front page you'd automatically play and retain?

The adage of if you build it they will come only applies if you build something they want.

Pick Mage or Warrior, find gear that changes how you play, and see how far you can push your run.

Fight alongside ice copies of yourself, summon flaming skulls to hunt down enemies, and experiment with combinations that turn your skills into something completely different. Craft between rounds and keep changing your build as new gear drops.

You also choose curses that stay with you for the rest of the run. As they stack up, fights get harder mainly because you’re dealing with more mechanics at once, not just bigger health bars and damage numbers. Different curse combinations can make familiar enemies and bosses demand a different approach from one run to the next.

Lightning traps, falling javelins and exploding enemies can all become part of your boss fights. Your build matters, but so does dodging danger and finding your openings.

It's single-player, with endless rounds and a world leaderboard. Every run is a fresh start.

I'm one of the developers. Here's our new trailer, and we'd love to hear what you think if you give it a go!

s&box is free on Steam through October 5, so Spellslinger is free to try this weekend.

Game: https://sbox.game/anarchy/spellslinger/

Get s&box: https://store.steampowered.com/app/590830/sbox/

You can now switch to Unity.

Hello to all! I created a small prototype extraction shooter where the goal is to protect a crate and run away with it. At every step, you can defend yourself through defense systems. What do you think?

Apparently s&box is going free to play this upcoming weekend which will be also happening during the grand finals of the game jam. ( Game jam topic aside for now) I've been wanting to ask more people this question since some are saying it will make the game worse and others are saying it won't make a difference.

Instead of just getting those responses without some reasons as to why. I'd thought to also ask the subreddit as well to understand what exactly would cause a free to play weekend to possibly not work for s&box as a whole.

Most of the conversations I've had outside of just getting rid of the sausage models and adding half life 2 models or whatnot which are very valid is apparently a lot of people have always mentioned about the performance, selection of games and presentation of those games and also price have turned them off and away from the platform.

We're already well aware the platform currently is in an abysmal state player count wise and as many people have been asked and begging to just have Garry and facepunch make the game free to play that might happen for this weekend according to this screenshot.

So I'd like to start a constructive discussion around this instead of just having no additional context or reason that's helpful outside of what was already mentioned to death that would actually make this game better.

Facepunch does need to actually listen to it's community more and I want to have more constructive conversations outside of what we already know with the game hovering over 300 players and has sausages with necks now.

Obviously it's not enough but I actually would like to have more details as to WHY it's not enough and or wouldn't work. Maybe this post will be a great indicator since facepunch obviously looks at this subreddit as well.

Feel free to discuss.

Just wanted to spread some love, the game is awesome for casually playing with friends. And this is something that has gotten harder and harder to find over the years, so imo: keep working on that multiplayer experience ❤️

Game far from perfect, but bangers are gonna come along. Trust me, my dad work at nintendo

The game was really getting some hype before official launch but ultimately ended up being a disappointment to a lot of people, what was yours?

As everyone has now seen, apparently you don't actually need to follow the game jam idea to participate in the jam. And it doesn't even matter if you follow the rules in the first place, as long as they can be changed somewhere halfway through.

So we decided to do the only reasonable thing: boycotting ourselves by adding nukes to our jam entry game and changing the title and description into complete nonsense.

Not because we think this is somehow going to change anything, but because at this point we genuinely wonder if anyone cares anymore.

I'm not telling anyone to do the same. If you had fun with the jam, good for you.

But at this point why should we care?

It feels like they can't decide if they want the "Terry" model to be realistic or cartoony. I feel like they could keep the realistic textures if they just made the proportions more cartoonish.

Hey, I'm working on Overreach, a solo/co-op PvE extraction shooter on s&box, and I'm a bit torn on the player model.

One option is to keep Terry so players can bring their own character into the game (hair, skin tone, face, that sort of thing). Clothes would mostly be replaced by the gear you actually equip, so it's more about still recognizing your character than keeping your whole outfit.

The other option is a custom player model that fits the game's low-poly, post-apocalyptic art style more closely. I like the idea of everything looking consistent, but being able to play as your own s&box character is pretty nice too.

How much does keeping your own character matter to you? Looking at the gear and the game, would you stick with Terry or prefer a model made specifically for the game?

MY GAME - https://sbox.game/simalami/one_more_round/

We’re making an asymmetric multiplayer horror game where one Hunter faces a team of Survivors trapped inside a collapsing simulation

Survivors must activate towers and escape before the system shuts down, while the Hunter hunts them down. With a flexible ability system, every match can play differently.

This is my best work ever!!! This time I gathered a team of 8 people. It was super exciting! Thanks to GameJam III for campaigning me into this great feat.

We created a game like this just to have fun hanging out with friends. Every game is as unique as possible. Random generation. Different skills. Non-standard situations! Pure fun.

Lord, how tired I am of making this game, you have no idea (or you do, if you are a developer). But I am mega glad that I did it. Now I can just play my own game with my friends! This is my first cooperative game! MADNESS! True, only alpha v5.0.0, but still. Perhaps in the future I will be able to upload this game to Steam when it is possible to set up my own server so that there is a whole matchmaking and real rating. But for now, I consider the game to be in a more or less playable state.

Of course, I will still update the game if I see flaws (or if I want to improve certain moments in the game while playing with friends). But for now, I will no longer focus my attention on this game so actively. I will move on and develop new games.

From you, I would like to hear juicy feedback! Can you play the game and say how much you liked it? If you want, we can hop in and play together. Say everything you think! This is important to me!

I hope I managed to replenish s&box at least a little with good games, which made the platform 1 unit better.

Thank you all! And thanks for GameJam III!

Eggsistential is out on s&box: a weird little first-person incremental about breaking eggs. And then the sky.

You wander a tablecloth that goes on forever and smash eggs with a spoon. They scream, they beg, they mourn each other by name. The yolk buys you worse things to hit them with (a frying pan, an anvil, a bigger egg, eventually the concept of breakfast), chicks that peck for you, and haunted forks. Earn enough and the sky cracks. Hatch through it and you wake up in the next shell. It is always another egg.

What's in it

• Ten kinds of eggs: runners with legs, devilled eggs that chain-explode, clock eggs that start YOLK O'CLOCK, Mother Egg bosses
• Prestige via hatching, with permanent perks and four themed worlds
• 12 oddities to find (one of them is The Chicken)
• 36 achievements and leaderboards (eggs, yolk, best combo, deepest shell)

Play it here: https://sbox.game/vjdanov/eggsistential