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S&box plans to go free-to-play and embrace human curation saying "Netflix for games doesn't work"
Facepunch Studios plans to make its s&box platform free-to-play toward the end of the year as it shifts from offering as many games as possible to promoting the best and most popular ones.
S&box Creator Announces Huge Overhaul and Switch to Free-to-Play
Garry Newman, the founder of Facepunch Studios and creator of GMod, says he's "ashamed" by s&box's reception since launch The post S&box Creator Announces Huge Overhaul and Switch to Free-to-Play appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.
"My idea of a Netflix for games doesn’t work": Garry's Mod creator says struggling spiritual successor S&box will go free to play as part of major rethink
Earlier this year, Garry's Mod and Rust developers Facepunch Studios released S&box, a mix of open source game development platform/spiritual successor to their Valve prop-filled physics sandbox. It's not fared well, only earning mixed reviews and being stuffed with low quality AI generated games early doors. Now, Facepunch founder Garry Newman has announced plans for a major overhaul that'll see S&box go free to play.
Facepunch are rethinking s&box since it's not doing well - it's going free to play
The sandbox game creation and game playing platform s&box from Garry's Mod and Rust developer Facepunch is going through a big rethink. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
S&box Creator Says the UGC Game’s Launch “Burnt Bridges”
Garry Newman, the founder of Facepunch Studios, acknowledges criticisms around game discovery in s&box and its character models The post S&box Creator Says the UGC Game’s Launch “Burnt Bridges” appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.
s&box from Facepunch now has Native Linux support on Steam
After a short Beta release, Facepunch have now updated s&box on Steam to provide Native Linux support. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
s&box, the game creation platform from Facepunch now has a Linux Beta
Facepunch have announced they plan official Linux support for their Source 2 powered game creation platform, s&box, with an initial Beta out now. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
"It's a UGC platform, there is always going to be dog s***" Garry's Mod creator says as S&box's latest update aims to punish AI-generated thumbnails
S&box, Facepunch Studios' open source game development platform/spiritual successor to Garry's Mod continues to fight a battle against AI-generated games early doors. After Facepunch founder Garry Newman was quick to confirm the studio would be "taking action to promote human creativity and push obviously AI-created slop off the main page" following S&box's launch to mixed reviews, the game's latest update has taken aim at punishing creations with AI-generated thumbnails.
GMod Creator Garry Newman Talks S&box and Building a UGC Platform for a “Whole Different World”
Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman discusses new UGC platform s&box, which arrives roughly two decades on from Garry's Mod. The post GMod Creator Garry Newman Talks S&box and Building a UGC Platform for a “Whole Different World”
Garry's Mod Creator Wants to Push 'AI Slop' Off the S&box Main Page Amid 'Mixed' Steam User Review Rating
The successor to Garry’s Mod, S&box, is getting slammed with AI-generated content, much to the dismay of its creator.
Garry's Mod devs Facepunch will be taking action to "push obviously AI-created slop off" sequel S&box's main page, Garry Newman confirms
Update: "Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet," Facepunch founder Garry Newman said in response on RPS' reachout about S&box being plagued by such things out of the gate. "We don't encourage using AI to be creative. We don't encourage using AI to create games for you. But we do acknowledge that it's a good learning tool and it's a good productivity tool. We'll be taking action to promote human creativity and push obviously AI-created slop
Facepunch launches s&box, the highly anticipated successor to Garry's Mod
s&box from Facepunch is the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod. Built with Source 2, it's a full game creation platform that's quite a lot closer to Roblox. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Garry’s Mod Developer Shares Transparent Finance Tracking for Upcoming Title
After years of development, Facepunch Studios turned a profit on upcoming title s&box for the first time in April 2026 The post Garry’s Mod Developer Shares Transparent Finance Tracking for Upcoming Title
Garry's Mod Spiritual Successor s&box Launches Later This Month
If you've rinsed Garry's Mod (assuming such a thing is possible), then you'll be pleased to know Facepunch Studios' spiritual successor s&box is coming very soon.
The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage
S&box is an upcoming open source game development platform, built using a modified Source 2 engine. Out on 28th April, it's the work of the very same Garry Newman behind the legendary Garry's Mod, who's been working on a spiritual successor at his company Facepunch Studios (also the developers of Rust, and originally known as Team Garry) since 2015. Inasmuch as I am qualified to judge, S&box sounds like a robust tool – it's got features and systems for visual scripting, open world terrain, and c
Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28
Still waiting for a price, but at least we've got a date.
Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box
The spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod based on Valve's Source 2 is growing up, as you'll be able to create full standalone games with it. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.