Hi guys,

Have been meaning to make this post for a while but never got around to it - but here it is finally. Note that this post is probably not final and I'll be editing it slightly over the next few days/weeks.

The TARDIS Rewrite (as well as all of my other addons) are now in what I'm calling Extended Support

My definition of extended support is that the mods will continue to receive fixes to any big issues caused by any GMod update, so they will continue to work for the foreseeable future.

Known issues are unlikely to be fixed unless someone submits a fix to me on GitHub[github.com] - then I will review, test, merge it in and release to workshop if I'm happy with it.

If there is a small feature I can add which would help out extension developers then I would be happy to still do these, for example support to change the sounds or vortex model in their own interiors.

I'm sorry I didn't make this post sooner to let you all know and sorry I haven't been replying much to the discussions, I do read them all and will continue to read them but as you can imagine I can't reply to them all - and I wanted to make a proper post rather than just reply to some random post 'it's ded jim'.

Some Q&A below:

What does this mean for my future on the GMod workshop community?
It sucks to say but it looks like it might be at its end for developing any new addons or significant changes to existing addons. As mentioned will make sure they keep working though.

Why are you moving away from GMod?
There are 3 main reasons: Work, Time and GMod itself.

Work and free time are things I've mentioned a few times in Feature Discussion as a reason for slowed/delayed updates in the past. I've been at my job now for 3 years and I've done less work on the rewrite than I did in half a year while at college.

Doing programming for a living is great, but it means you lose interest in hobbyist work. Coding all day and then coming home to do more coding isn't that fun, starts to wear you down. When I come home or wake up on the weekends I don't want to write code, I want to relax and play games like most of you guys.

GMod itself is showing its age particularly in the development experience. I'm used to debugging tools and advanced IDEs, code intellisense/autocomplete etc. Whenever I've jumped back into GMod Lua in the past couple of years it's not been great to work with. I've also been in the GMod scene for over 10 years now, so it's time to move on to something new.

Are you going to be developing for any other games in the future? Another TARDIS mod or otherwise?
As mentioned GMod is showing it's age, but there is light at the end of the tunnel with the upcoming Sandbox[sandbox.facepunch.com] from the same devs behind GMod. It's essentially GMod but on Unreal Engine 4, fixing all the addon development problems in GMod, addons created in C#, meaning I get all the features I'm used to such as debugging/intellisense. It's going to be fast, new, fun and refreshing so when it's released a bit more widely I'll definitely be experimenting with that. I may even make a TARDIS mod for that! No promises though! :)

Final words

To finish off, just wanted to say thanks for everyone in supporting this addon and I hope you enjoyed, and hopefully continue to enjoy, my contributions to the GMod workshop.

If you have any questions or any kind of feedback please leave it here - hearing how much you guys liked the addon was a massive driving force to keep going with it for a long time, and it's why I kinda didn't want to make this post to shatter many of your dreams (including my own) of a complete TARDIS in GMod.

I'd like to thank those who have been helping out moderating these forums by answering various questions and helping others out without me asking, in particular Gigo, Piehthyte, Brundoob and no doubt some others I have forgotten right now.

Cheers

Matt.