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Garry’s Mod Creator Says He’s ‘Ashamed’ And ‘Embarrassed’ By The Response To His Latest Project: ‘I’ve Let Everybody Down’

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Garry’s Mod Creator Says He’s ‘Ashamed’ And ‘Embarrassed’ By The Response To His Latest Project: ‘I’ve Let Everybody Down’

Garry Newman, the creator of the bajillion-selling Garry’s Mod, has not held back when reflecting on his studio’s latest release. The atrociously-named s&box (sandbox, see?) was intended to be the spiritual sequel to Garry’s Mod, the 2008 mod for Valve’s Source engine that went on to sell over 25 million copies. Built for Source 2, Facepunch’s s&box was released in April of this year, and was immediately drowned in AI slop and terrible reviews.

Efforts were quickly made to try to fight back against the user-generated AI drivel that was inundating the project, but unfortunately Newman—who is rarely one to find the right side of an argument—went on to add that he didn’t want to ban AI entirely because it’s “a good learning tool and it’s a good productivity tool.” But these adjustments weren’t enough to turn around early feeling about the open source project, which remains stuck on just 47 percent positive reviews on Steam.

Player numbers have been atrocious. While the 20-year-old Garry’s Mod continues to see almost 30,000 people playing simultaneously every day, s&box barely scrapes 500, despite estimates of anywhere between 500,000 and a million sales. Recently, in an attempt to bring in some more players, Facepunch gave s&box (which hurts me to type each time) a free weekend on Steam, and as IXBT Games noticed, this led to Newman’s first outpouring of loathing for the project under a YouTube video’s coverage of the disastrous promotion.

“The launch was shit,” said Newman.



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