I wanted to make a game. Now, if you know Hello Neighbor, you’ll know they have mods and a DLC that includes an asset pack with the Unreal Engine. Is this possible with Unity? Also, would my game for compatible if people mod my game?
Yes, of course it is possible, there are many games built in unity that do those things. Modding is something you have build into the game / plan for.
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So for example, Hello Neighbor has a blueprint where the player picks up a crowbar and tears off nails to a door. Would that be available in Unity? Trust me, i may sound like a idiot, but watcha gonna do hehe
You’ve mentioned both Unreal and Unity but what will hold you back is not the engine. Both of them are more than capable of making the game you’re describing. What will hold you back is your own knowledge of and experience with the engine.
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It’s not available, but it’s possible to do something like that in Unity. The question is what you are going to do next, armed with this knowledge.
Blueprints are a visual scripting feature of the Unreal engine specifically, and not some kind of industry standard, so no Unity doesn’t have Blueprints. All the visual scripting solutions for Unity are 3rd party assets, as Unity doesn’t have integrated visual scripting. Blueprints themselves aren’t some kind of mod enabling secret sauce though.
Your biggest issue isn’t really whether the engine can support player modding of your game, but instead the burden is on you to build your game in such a way as to support a modding system that you create for it. That’s no different for Unity or Unreal. You’ll have to put in a lot of extra work making your game very modular, and adding reading in these outside mod packages however you want to implement them. Don’t be surprised if building your mod system, and designing your game to properly support it, doubles the work of developing your game.
Personally, it sounds like this is your first try at making a game in either Unreal or Unity. I’d pick an engine, forget about adding mods, and focus on making a good standalone game (if your focus isn’t on making a good game, no one will want to mod it anyway, and making your first game a really good game is a huge and rare achievement on its own).
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You’re essentially saying, “Someone gave me a really nice paintbrush. Is it possible to make a painting with it?”
It’s possible to do pretty much whatever you want to do with a game engine. All it takes is learning how to do it. I’d suggest starting here.
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While possible, you’ve got to be pretty darn clever to build a mod for an Unreal game with Unity.
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