That’s an amazing project. It’s kinda sad that nowadays most AAA games are so locked down that the player will never get into modding.

For myself it started with Jedi Knight, and then eventually mods on the Source engine (CS:S / HL2). To me it’s a good way to get people excited about the possibilities of programming at a fairly young age.

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snowram 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Roblox commercialized that excitement. Kids now work directly for them and pretty much for free.

	▲	tsimionescu 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Modding has always worked like that. Mods have always been unpayed work for the benefit of the game community, which ultimately also works to the benefit of the game publisher.
	▲	post-it 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Playing Roblox at age 10 shortly after it launched is what inspired me to learn to code.
	▲	bethekidyouwant an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If your Roblox game makes money for the company they pay you.

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thadt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As someone who spent hours playing Jedi Knight with friends and lots of mods, allow me to say - thank you :)

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thrance 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Modern Bethesda games, for all their faults, are still very moddable. But who needs these when we have Morrowind?

And same. Me personally, I learned Java to mod Minecraft. That's how I got into programming. Overall, I'd say modding is still in pretty good shape.

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gww 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is how I became serious about programming. I played around a bit but I never really wrote anything useful until I started playing Asheron's Call. I learned C++ to write bots and other plugins for Decal (an embedded mod framework).