I want to, but apparently it violates the T&C of Game Dev Tycoon. 
well damn I hope when it comes out on steam they will make modding support for the steam workshop. It seems like the perfect game for that.
Yeah, the Steam Workshop’s concept would be great for Game Dev Tycoon.
However I’ve never had much success using Steam Workshop with Portal 2 or Garry’s Mod 13.
Steam Workshop in my opinion wouldn’t work, what you gonna create more maps for GDT to be used on or something?
Just a fact:
Maps aren’t everything Steam Workshop can do. Well, supposedly can do. Very rarely you’ll be able to download a prop into Garry’s Mod, and if they were to incorporate Steam Workshop into GDT, very rarely you would be able to download a new genre into Game Dev Tycoon.
The game wasn’t designed with modding in mind and I don’t think that ‘hacking’ the current source code is a great way to allow modding. That sort of hacking is also against our EULA. We don’t allow reverse-engineering or altering the core source code of the game in such a way and I don’t think that any such mods would be very user friendly, especially when the Steam release is concerned. I think offering a cleaner modding API (maybe by working together with key community members) and starting a dialogue of what mod ideas are popular would be a better way do go towards a moddable game.
At the moment we are busy with the Steam release but once that is settled we will put our attention back to community-related activities such as localizations and potential mods.
Thanks for the update Pat.
I think offering a cleaner modding API (maybe by working together with
key community members) and starting a dialogue of what mod ideas are
popular would be a better way do go towards a moddable game.
That was my goal. I wanted to add hooks to the game in order to allow people to call functions outside of the main code rather than having to go inside it. I also wanted to make it so that you could simply put your mods in a mod folder to install them, rather than having to modify the source yourself if you didn’t want to make your own. In fact, you wouldn’t even have to modify the source yourself if you DID want to make your own – you could create a new JS file containing the code of your mod and my batch files would be able to append it automatically.
In terms of longevity, this is a great concept. Obviously now that GameDevTycoon is out and was rather a hit due to all the publicity you guys want to move on and develop newer and more exciting games.
A modding community would allow the players to incorporate new and fresh ideas into the game. These ideas created by the very community themselves. Any game has a shelf life, a point at which it is not really supported by the developer anymore, at which point this is a significant idea.
Sounds like we are on the same page as far as this is concerned. I was just trying to say that we would want such a modding API implemented into the game itself, rather than added through a hack. I was trying to say that we want to start collaborating with the community to make this possible. I think it’s probably best if we have a in-depth chat about this once the Steam release is out.
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Okay.
I have to admit part of this was just me longing for a programming challenge, as I haven’t had much to do lately 
Hey Patrick I’m wondering if you guys do eventually support mods after all any chance of letting people choose what version of the game they download?I ask because of memories of awesome mods for other games vanishing because of steams auto-updating.
@TestSubject0 I absolutely have no idea on how to send private messages so I’ll just write this here. I posted something about a mod in these forums today and someone pointed me to this discussion. You clearly know more of what you are doing than me but if some sort of modding team is created in the future I am available for it. Your idea sounds great.
You click someones user and send them a PM.
Urm I’m looking into making a modification for the game so is it even legal?
It would be the monsercat mod 
Please refer to this thread for modding information;
http://forum.greenheartgames.com/t/modding-and-mods/5687/40
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There goes my GameDevTycoon Ultimate goal 
Allowing the community to code in Lua to make modifications to the game would be great. Lua is a great language.
It would be way simpler for them, and way more logical, to mod in JS, since the whole game is already in javascript.
Plus, you can override functions in javascript.
Basically, you could just mod right how we do it already, except the original code would source the “mod” code that would be in another file so that you don’t have to redistribute/modify the original code to make modifications.
making modding in lua would mean clutter the game with a lua parser and create all sorts of hooks. It’s nice, but I believe it’s way overkill.
can you add a option to add an own console , which get released automaticly in year X ?
this would be very nice