More and more games seem to suck on thier own, but can be great with mods. You have entire platforms like roblox where all the games are more or less mods. How long until the platform itself is community created and managed and the viability of games created by companies dissappears?

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    I don’t work in games, but I do work in software. I do understand that there are already libraries and plugins. I am just talking about increasing the level of abstraction. An example of something I see in crafting games may help. So you go to craft something, and you are missing a component, but you are able to craft that too. In some games you can click on the missing component to go to the interface were you would craft it. But in most you have to go back to the crafting search and type in the name in a search bar then click on it in a list to do the same. This is a simple QOL thing. Further, after you crafted the component, a back arrow to take you back to what you were trying to craft originally would be nice. But you won’t see that in 90% of crafting games. But you will find mods for this kind of thing. My assertion is that devs don’t implement these sorts of things because they would rather spend thier time on the things that make their game different. So if this sort of thing was a plugin or what not, they wouldn’t need to spend time on it, and the overall quality would go up. Plus people who want to make games today, but are overwhelmed by how much they would have to do that isn’t related to the idea they have, my feel less overwhelmed, and we would get more games with more innovative ideas.

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      2 days ago

      It’s your assertion that “Devs don’t implement these sort of things because they would rather spend their time on things that make their game different” that I disagree with.

      That’s just not how it is. Serious thoughts goes into the mundane stuff. The UI, especially.

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        2 days ago

        We might be comparing apples and oranges here. You mentioned you worked in the industry I believe. Was that at decent sized companies where there were like 10 or more devs working on a game?