I know Rec Room will probably start dying in the next few months or years, and I think it would be really cool to have something like Rec Room Studio, but without requiring Rec Room itself. Basically, your own standalone game, like something made in Unity or Unreal Engine, where you can still use VR to build, do tubing-style logic, and use Rec Room like features, but with everything fully customizable. I really want this.
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I hope and expect that RecRoom will be around for many years to come. But if it does die, it would be awesome if their last act were to open source it like the World Seed from SAO.
You mean something similar to what Roblox did? Roblox initially wasn’t built with Unity, but it started as a platform where players could create their own games using its proprietary engine.
I think it would be a really cool concept, but it would take a lot of effort to create a standalone game engine like that. If Rec Room wanted to do it, they could make scripting available, similar to how Roblox uses Lua. They could either use Lua or develop their own scripting language.
However, they couldn’t allow full C++ or similar low-level coding on consoles, because PlayStation and other consoles don’t support arbitrary code execution for security reasons. Everything would have to run within the engine’s sandbox.