After the massive success of the title in such a short time span, official modding has finally been announced after players are starting to finish their adventures. This will bring tons of new exciting things, creations by the community can greatly improve an already solid title. By giving players the reigns of creativity, the game can be expanded upon, giving players thousands of hours of enjoyment with a single title. Thanks to mods, games are able to live longer than expected, we at Infinite Start will cover what these changes brings.
Modding till Kingdom Come
Steamworks is the integration for modding Valve provides on their popular Steam client. Official modding support is often brought to games thanks to this solid integration. Steamworks is often community driven, with thousands of mods to chose and ease of use, often installing mods with a single click. To use mods from Steamworks, one has to usually go to the page corresponding to the game title they wish to mod. In there, you just simply need to subscribe to the creation another user did so it can appear in your game.
Plenty of different mod loaders also exist outside of games that allow players to customize their experience further. However, those are not supported for official modding, but there’s nothing wrong with using any of them. Companies who bring official modding to their games often wish to provide ease of access to buyers. After all, mods are transformative and one cannot charge costs for something like it.
Ensuring that money remains out of the question is what makes mods so good. Players aren’t driven to sell something to other players, but share their ideas and implementations. By doing this, one can create a strong community of people who can keep the game living for years, and also get some neat programming and game development skills too.
