Facepunch Studios' new game creation platform s&box will release next week on April 28 on Steam. Built on Valve's Source Engine 2, s&box is the "spiritual successor to Garry's Mod," a physics sandbox and toolkit users can build their own games in.
Leading up to the launch, Facepunch Studios stated its community-forward vision, highlighting features like payments to game developers and the ability for devs to export their games from s&box and add them to Steam—without Facepunch taking a percentage.
"We're not guided by commercial milestones, we're not going to do an IPO," says Facepunch. "We do this because we love it, we want to give the community the same opportunities we've had. We want to do that as fair and generously as possible. Without any corporate mischief."
Part of that philosophy is paying developers who make games using s&box, and Facepunch says it has already paid out over $500,000 to game makers on its platform. "This isn't as extreme as others but it'll grow and is sustainable, since we don't have to fire 1000 people to keep it working," Facepunch says.
The payments come from "The...
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