Source SDK is going free

brainwipe on Fri, 2011-07-01 10:28

Source, the engine that runs many of the games I love is having its software development kit go free. Makes me want to code games all over again!

How this might link into Steam is a mystery, though. I suppose you have to go through a process to get achievements onto the Steam platform.

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Actually, I think I might layoff. From the RPS commenters:

The Source SDK and tools are abominations, plain and simple. Programming against it is about as fun as sawing your own leg off

And from Gabe Newell...

Gabe Newell: Oh yeah, weâ€™re spending a tremendous amount of time on tools right now. So, our current tools areâ€¦very painful, so we probably are spending more time on tools development now than anything else and when weâ€™re ready to ship those I think everybodyâ€™s life will get a lot better. Itâ€™s just way too hard to develop content right now, both for ourselves and for third parties so weâ€™re going to make enormously easier and simplify that process a lot.

Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2011-07-01 11:04

I looked at source a while back and it's C++ easy if you know how but intimidating to the untrained

then again UDK/UE3 isn't exactly a walk in the park coding requires knowledge of polymorphism and object oriented code techniques but with it's drop and drag systems (karma or something like that) you can do a lot without touching unrealscript

Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2011-07-01 17:17