Telltale could you please release us your engine official tools? Since you are moving on another

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• 4k60fpsHDR

  June 2018 edited June 2018

  This would be great! If telltale wont update their OG games, the community could step in and mod the games.
• Blind Sniper Moderator

  June 2018

  From general anecdotes I've read online over the years*, including official comments from various AMAs/etc, the engine wasn't really as easy to manage/use as other engines.

  We love the Tool, but it's definitely, shall we say... utilitarian. It's not something we'd ever want to unleash on anyone outside the studio.

  Releasing the engine as is would probably result in people trying to tinker with current Telltale games in ways that that Telltale would perhaps not like. Meanwhile, releasing a user friendly version of the engine would take a lot of time and money in order to make the engine user friendly, assign staff away from actually important work to write training material, etc - all for an engine that supposedly isn't as good/accessible as other engines.

  So, yeah, I don't quite see Telltale getting a lot out of releasing their engine.

  * Generic Disclaimer; Moderators are Community Volunteers. We are not Telltale Staff and opinions are solely our own...
• 4k60fpsHDR

  June 2018

  Releasing the engine as is would probably result in people trying to tinker with current Telltale games in ways that that Telltale would perhaps not like.

  

  Blind Sniper posted: »

  From general anecdotes I've read online over the years*, including official comments from various AMAs/etc, the engine wasn't really as easy… more to manage/use as other engines. We love the Tool, but it's definitely, shall we say... utilitarian. It's not something we'd ever want to unleash on anyone outside the studio. Releasing the engine as is would probably result in people trying to tinker with current Telltale games in ways that that Telltale would perhaps not like. Meanwhile, releasing a user friendly version of the engine would take a lot of time and money in order to make the engine user friendly, assign staff away from actually important work to write training material, etc - all for an engine that supposedly isn't as good/accessible as other engines. So, yeah, I don't quite see Telltale getting a lot out of releasing their engine. * Generic Disclaimer; Moderators are Community Volunteers. We are not Telltale Staff and opinions are solely our own...
• max_pain943

  June 2018 edited June 2018

  To be honest, those who really wanna do something on it (including myself) will overcome such obstacles, and it's not an important thing to have a user friendly interface, there was, and there is still many engine editors that were actually more professional than user friendly, so i would go even with the "utilitarian" cuz' i just really wanna mod something out of telltale's previous games!

  Blind Sniper posted: »

  From general anecdotes I've read online over the years*, including official comments from various AMAs/etc, the engine wasn't really as easy… more to manage/use as other engines. We love the Tool, but it's definitely, shall we say... utilitarian. It's not something we'd ever want to unleash on anyone outside the studio. Releasing the engine as is would probably result in people trying to tinker with current Telltale games in ways that that Telltale would perhaps not like. Meanwhile, releasing a user friendly version of the engine would take a lot of time and money in order to make the engine user friendly, assign staff away from actually important work to write training material, etc - all for an engine that supposedly isn't as good/accessible as other engines. So, yeah, I don't quite see Telltale getting a lot out of releasing their engine. * Generic Disclaimer; Moderators are Community Volunteers. We are not Telltale Staff and opinions are solely our own...
• eRock92

  June 2018

  I'm not a computer coding or game design expert nor an amateur. However, I'd be interested in knowing what was unique about the TellTale Tool. What makes it different from the Unity engine? Are there any elements from the TellTale Tool that TTG wants to bring into the Unity Engine? Hopefully when they switch over, they can give a glimpse into what the difference between the tools are.