Comments on: Is It Worth To Make Your Game Moddable? (Do You Even Bother?)

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:38:46 +0000

Indie Dev: Little Big Planet comes to my mind. It’s perhaps not a true casual game… but highly customizable.

By: Sebastien Larocque

Sebastien Larocque — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:38:26 +0000

Games with mods are well known. Example: Unreal Tournament. It sure can have a viral effect. It is more work, but if the mods are included with a well-defined marketing strategy, it can push your sales to the top.

By: Indie Dev

Indie Dev — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:14:58 +0000

Does this apply to casual games too? (without including level editors)

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:06:57 +0000

viral-ness is a good point. one should always remember that *anything* can be used in marketing stories… :)

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:59:16 +0000

MOD could mean long life to the game. :)

By: Leroy Frederick

Leroy Frederick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:58:11 +0000

Yep, in short moddability adds life, value and viral-ness to your game, anything that gives people the opportunity to be creative and share their (and in this case your) content is always a good thing, provided it’s done right of course.

By: Tobias Scheuer

Tobias Scheuer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:30:39 +0000

My game will be moddable, simply because it’s part of my development process…

Beyond that, it all depends. Do you want to create a long-living fan base for your game, consisting of people who really love it and play it for years? Make the game moddable then.

Or, do you prefer to sell sequels to your game, once all your players have played through and enjoyed the game? Then don’t make it moddable, but have a sequel ready instead.

Well, my guess is that it’s reasons like this that there are so many games which are not moddable or only in very restricted ways… just a thought.