‘GabeN, what are your specs? Well, I’m a handsome man with a charming personality’
After a false start, Valve co-founder Gabe Newelltook to redditfor an Ask Me Anything alongside several other Valve employees. While nothing too revelatory was said, Newell did comment on the upcoming Source 2 engine and its focus on user-generated content, saying:
“The biggest improvements will be in increasing productivity of content creation. That focus is driven by the importance we see UGC having going forward. A professional developer at Valve will put up with a lot of pain that won’t work if users themselves have to create content.”
Valve has no current plans for exclusives onSteamOS, the Internet’s obsession with Newell is “entertaining for [his] friends,” and this year’s International forDota 2is likely to take place at “Key Arena in Seattle, but we haven’t gotten everything finalized, and there is always a risk that our schedules and theirs won’t align in some way.”
If the company “could borrow an IP from another company to make a game for it,” Newell would chooseThe Warriors, Greg Coomer would takeGroundhog DayorHeathers, and Erik Wolpaw would go forGod HandorSaints Row. Can you dig it?
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