Board Thread:General Pixel Gun 3D Discussion/@comment-24427987-20140201192650/@comment-10824019-20140517023900

While I'd love for user-created maps as much as the next guy, we gotta be realistic with the hardware we have. First off, it is possible to make maps and submit them to a cloud-based server so users could download them (Survivalcraft has this feature). Unfortunately, Pixel Gun's map editor would probably be more intensive. It would probably allow you to add custom models, textures, and map hazards and the like to your maps. The problem is, most of this is very programming-based, so this would require a modding API of sorts. In turn, Rilisoft would need to write up their own syntax for this sort of feature. Of course, at this point, we're talking of making a whole new app for Pixel Gun to work with. Reason is because apps can only handle so much. A full-on all-intensive map editor would be too much for Pixel Gun alone. We would need to have another app for this to work.

On top of this, we would need to consider what hardware our devices run off of. Basically, only users with an iPad 2 or higher could probably handle it, since editing a map off an iPod is just plain unreal. Android specs may vary, same with Windows Phone and Amazon devices.

In other words, I too would love it, but it doesn't quite seem feasible at this point in time.