Half-Life: Alyx is out, and the place discuss of Valve and Half-Life goes, so too does Garry’s Mod observe. You know Gmod for all of the foolish Source games the gamers made with it: Prop Hunt, Trouble In Terrorist Town, Jazztronauts, and the like. Original Gmod maker and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman has jumped on the Valve-talk practice with a tease that they’re at present engaged on Garry’s Mod 2, which it seems is one thing known as Sandbox that they’ve been growing for fairly a couple of years.
It began with a Twitter meme, as information apparently does now. Newman posted a teasing indication that he’s engaged on “Garry’s Mod 2.” Or perhaps simply desires to be? Although we’ve recognized that Newman deliberate a Gmod sequel for years, listening to about it now’s that’s thrilling for loads of people, myself included, who’ve fond recollections of getting as much as shenanigans in customized servers operating numerous Gmod game servers.
According to PCGamesN, who reached out to Newman, “it seems the game being referenced in the tweets is actually Sandbox,” the Gmod-like game engine that Facepunch have been engaged on for quite a lot of years.
On the Sandbox (S&box) site, Facepunch say that “our intention with Sandbox is to take a powerful game engine (UE4 right now) and build a hotloading C# layer on top of it. The idea being that you will never have to touch C++, you never have to wait for things to compile, you never have to close the game while developing.”
That stated, the final official replace on Sandbox was again in 2018 and Facepunch’s description “UE4 right now,” doesn’t precisely sound remaining. Another Twitter consumer beneath Newman’s put up shared a screenshot which they are saying is from the now-deleted Discord server for Sandbox. In it, Newman stated on the time that Sandbox was on maintain whereas the group switched engines to one thing “a lot more familiar” and have been ready for the brand new engine to be obtainable. Facepunch Studios could have been ready on entry to Source 2 or might even be pivoting to Unity, which they’ve used to develop Rust.
At the second, the one factor we all know for sure is that Sandbox = Gmod2. Newman did reply to 1 consumer a pair days in the past saying that it wouldn’t make sense for them to create a VR-only Gmod, so we will rule that out.
After its lengthy silence, maybe we’ll hear extra about Sandbox quickly, now that Newman is publicly making references to it.
Or perhaps not.
