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Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by RHSeeger »

kevingadd wrote: post #11
megaremote wrote: post #10

Why do I need steam for this? Seems very odd.

Steam provides a CDN, updater, friends list/social infrastructure, really terrible but functional user generated content sharing infrastructure, and cloud saves to game developers, so it's pretty appealing even if you're a team inside Google since the alternative is building your own installer and updater - Google has no competitor to Steam on Windows or any other platform of note other than Android. Also, Gamers act…

To be more specific, gamers get annoyed when they have to install yet another "game manager" program to play a game. This is especially true when that game manager is well know to lack features and be insecure.

Installing a game standalone doesn't annoy anyone I know (though, to be fair, I'm now older with few friends)

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by abledon »

Similar to how the hottest chat app is google docs for the new generation [1], This is definitely a step in the write direction to snowball that momentum of 'virtual chat + collaborative playtime'

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by soup10 »

abledon wrote: post #24

Similar to how the hottest chat app is google docs for the new generation [1], This is definitely a step in the write direction to snowball that momentum of 'virtual chat + collaborative playtime' [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...

i think your giving it too much credit, this seems like a side project by some aspiring game developer at google,

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by dimator »

drevil-v2 wrote: post #25

It will be good for a few quarters of it's existence before Google shuts it down, as is tradition.

this refrain has become the "first post!!1" of the HN community, every time google is posted about.

what does "lolz teh g00gz will shut it down next week!" add to the conversation?

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by tomc1985 »

dimator wrote: post #27
drevil-v2 wrote: post #25

It will be good for a few quarters of it's existence before Google shuts it down, as is tradition.

this refrain has become the "first post!!1" of the HN community, every time google is posted about. what does "lolz teh g00gz will shut it down next week!" add to the conversation?

A lot, it lets people know that something cherished might be suddenly ripped out from underneath them

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by ipsum2 »

soup10 wrote: post #26
abledon wrote: post #24

Similar to how the hottest chat app is google docs for the new generation [1], This is definitely a step in the write direction to snowball that momentum of 'virtual chat + collaborative playtime' [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hotte...

i think your giving it too much credit, this seems like a side project by some aspiring game developer at google,

It's published by Area 120, which is Google's internal "startup incubator". So it's sort of like a side project, but full time for a small group of people.

Re: Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

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Post by Doubl »

tomc1985 wrote: post #28
dimator wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this refrain has become the "first post!!1" of the HN community, every time google is posted about. what does "lolz teh g00gz will shut it down next week!" add to the conversation?

A lot, it lets people know that something cherished might be suddenly ripped out from underneath them

Gooooooogle Graveyard, a resting place for great ideas

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/06/27/discontinued-g...

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