Facepunch Studios is working on a sequel to its 6 million-selling physics sandbox Garry’s Mod.
Garry’s Mod is a game with no objectives or aims, but it offers an experimental sandbox that millions of PC gamers have now messed around with. The $10 title — which started life as a mod for first-person adventure Half-Life 2 — is now getting a sequel, reports PCGamesN.
The main point of a new Garry’s Mod title is to support virtual reality, according to studio founder Garry Newman. With VR headsets shortly set to enter the mainstream market — starting with HTC Vive consumer units arriving in Q1 2016 — offering VR support is something that’s clearly on a lot of developers’ minds.
“We’re kind of working on a sequel,” said Newman. “It’s early days. We’re looking at having more VR stuff in it — that’s the big point of it. And it won’t be called Garry’s Mod 2.”
Newman explained that he originally didn’t want to charge anything for Garry’s Mod before it hit the Steam digital store in 2006, thinking that no one would actually pay for it.
“The price goes back to the original days,” he said. “We decided to have it that cheap because when Valve originally asked if we wanted to put it on Steam, I said no. I thought, ‘Who would pay for it?’ When we were first talking about price we thought $10. If we’d have priced it at $50, or $30, or even $20, I don’t think it’d have lasted ten years.”