Gimme a game where I just change settings and load orders. I don’t want to actually play a game, I want to move sliders, click check boxes, and scroll through drop down menus. The lizard part of my brain yearns for simple tasks

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Well, it would be pretty easy to automatically do an install in the VivaNewVegas way…

    But! NexusMods says money pwease!!!

    Alternatively, yeah, you could just make a mod load ordering simulator game…

    Just proc gen a made up directory/filestructure, and made up mods, orders, file conflicts, dependencies.

    And, of course, that game itself has to be moddable.

    But if detects any changes to its real file system, it just does a fork bomb or something, I dunno lol.

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        5 months ago

        I mean, that is more or less literally what OP requested, a game that just is the mod manager itself.

        Like just literally read the first line of the body of what they wrote, not just the title.

        Its kind of similar to how ‘PC Build Simulator’ is kind of meta in the same way, its a whole game about building PCs … which you play on your PC, instead of just, actually building a PC.

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          5 months ago

          Ha, you got me. Totally didn’t notice the body. My b. Anyway this sounds like a cool project… lemme see how viable this is.