Update 25.11.05 : news/update-25-11-05

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Nice !

you typed the first section header as "shitting" instead of "sitting".

Another solid update, hoping for the 2D tools to get more love soon, like tilemaps and sprite sheets.

Sooooo based regarding cosmetics Garry! Thank you for being a voice of reason!

Awesome, better VS Code support, level editor updates. Looking solid.

@garry see https://sbox.game/f/general/1077/1/#post13

I'm very glad that you started working on Map Editor, let's see what happens.

@garry when will standalone game publishing be available? any insights on this?

We're working on Standalone still, the license stuff is progressing, it'll be in the next couple of months I would think.

we can finally shit in s&box
thank you garry 

very spiffing

 A colossal amount of work is being done once again 

I like the Death Stranding vibe that the displaced terrain gives.

Regarding this new vision they have of the market, what will ultimately happen with tattoo skins?  https://sbox.game/f/general/1094/1/#post3

Lootboxes and Crates + Keys system is just gambling, not even related to FOMO. Which both suck by the way.
While I understand that the money that goes from these cosmetics, go back into the play-fund for the games, the whole economics in the game in the development as early as it is, feels just wrong, as it immediately sets the standart for incoming games to aim for the money and not for the passion of development that a lot of people came for in the games like GMod in the first place.
Economics and games just don't mix well and it starts making a corporate hell like Roblox is, where slop is made just with the aim of getting on the front page. I have incredibly high faith in S&Box as essentially an engine that allows to both publish games on it's platform and let people who enjoy this platform play them AND allow developers to export their game for stores outside, that all is honestly truly awesome. But this weird feeling of concern for the game standing so aggressively on making actual FOMO cosmetics, which you can only get for a normal price when they launch and then it's just the marketplace folks gauging prices, make it feel pretty icky.
I honestly don't know any other idea for a reliable way to make money for the play-fund, so I guess we have to settle for this, but it still just doesn't feel so good, as well as the explanation for it feels a little too aggressive, when you could have explained in a simpler, calmer way that you need this money to fund more games.

This. I get what Garry means and all the economy stuff (I mean look at TF2, my friend makes a lot money of that he throws back into buying games on steam), but I also don't want it to turn into a slop fest like Roblox. Cus that's not what a spiritual successor to GMod should be, it should aim to be better and improve what was already a good game, like how City Skylines improved on Sim City or how SCP Unity aimed (before it died) to improve SCP: Containment Breach.

Nice, now I need to start making something cool