> I sometimes imagine a future where players can open up a game, edit the rules, then share that "seed" with other people, until the most popular "seed" is disc

> I sometimes imagine a future where players can open up a game, edit the rules, then share that "seed" with other people, until the most popular "seed" is discovered and becomes popular amongst a community. In this way, one would discover non-intuitive, but immensely interesting game modes through sheer trial and error (much like how ARAM was discovered in League of Legends by players). I would argue that Starcraft and Warcraft 3's map editors were basically this. Many of the popular maps got developed into actual games - Dota, Various TDs, Uther Party etc. Only thing that was missing at the time was a match making system, so you had to use some private app or community to get quality games after certain level. I was very sad that Blizzard squandered the opportunity they had to create a thriving custom map coummnity when Starcraft 2 came out due to some strange choices they had made, especially when their custom map engine for SC2 was quite powerful. I've day dreamed about a future where Starcraft 2 came out as a free* game that focused on creating custom map communities instead of the mess that was at the initial release. * with purchasable campaign and ladder add ons, of course.