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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9519402" data-attributes="member: 18">I would personally say 100% this isn't going to happen, based on the most recent previews/user experiences of Sigil (as recent as a month ago).As a tool it's far, far too limited to be ever of use for building an actual CRPG, and most of the ways it could share are pretty trivial stuff except the assets. I will say it's further along than vapourware though - it's very pretty and is an actual usable 3D VTT, just a very limited, clumsy, and oddly-behaving one (lots of people really surprised by unhelpful or odd stuff it did), with a really bad UI (but that last is unsurprising at this point in development).I don't mean this as a takedown - I know you don't really care whether it succeeds or fails - but I think there are others who absolutely will see what you're suggesting as extremely exciting and be very disappointed when it doesn't happen.Re-using stuff like the art assets genuinely is pretty doable, including things like the spell animations potentially (Sigil models aren't animated, but spells are). The rest of it? Most of that is more in there "you'd need to do so much it would be a negligible gain, and potentially a drawback by trying to maintain cross-project compatibility between a game in development and software tool in actual use/sale" category - i.e. it would be possible, technically, but not worth it, because of the time and expense involved - it wouldn't save you money, that's the key thing.I mean, it can't quite be that. They're using UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) as the engine, they're not building an engine like Frostbite or UE5. This might seem like a minor distinction but it's a pretty major difference. They're building essentially a merged suite of applications. The most sensible thing they could probably do if they really thought it would save them money would be to use Sigil not as a loss-leader in that way, but to do two things whilst making subscription and MTX money:1) Skill up a bunch of developers on UE5 - who could then go on to code a game, though you'd need to leave a decent-sized team to keep upgrading, maintaining and adding to Sigil.2) Build up a large library of assets they could use for a CRPG. I think this would be slightly risky - gamers can be real twerps about asset re-use, where they notice it - but it might work out!</blockquote>

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