GDC 2017: Studio Wildcard vil belønne Ark: Survival Evolved modders med $ 4000 om måneden

Studio Wildcard, udvikleren bag Ark: Survival Evolved, vil udvælge og belønne 15 moddere med $ 4000 for at færdiggøre deres mods.

Hver måned evalueres mods'ene og fremgangen, og der vil blive besluttet om moddet fortsat skal have støtte. Derudover har mods'ene potentiale til at blive tilføjet som officielt DLC. Studio Wildcard nævner desuden muligheden for at puljen udvides udover de 15 der udvælges hver måned:

If we have to expand the program because the 15 mods are all doing so well that we don't want to cut any of them, then we'll expand the program to more mods every month.

- Jeremy Stieglitz, lead designer, lead programmer og co-creative director

Der er dog potentielle komplikationer i sigte fordi moddere kan stjæle fra hinanden og endda lægge sag an mod hinanden, som det er set tidligere da Valve forsøgte at belønne moddere ved at give dem et cut når mods blev lagt op som betalte downloads.

Dette håber Studio Wildcard dog vil kunne klares internt mellem modderne ifølge Stieglitz:

We ultimately feel that at the end of the day the modders that enter this program are kind of, you might say they're making a commitment, I guess, to handle that, to some extent. When they sign up for this we do have them represent that they have the rights to all the work. They don't have to be closed source, but they have at least open source rights to the work. So, if there's some dispute, technically it's up to the modder to deal with that, at that point.

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