G.E.C.K. here, get your G.E.C.K.!
As it was foretold, the Fallout 3 Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K.) has been released for the PC -- as of yesterday evenin', no less. If you're not privy to toolsets like these, it allows anyone to modify to game to improve it in any way, add stuff, or just make a bunch of hilarious nonsense. The name is a straight nod to Fallout lore, having long been known to fans as a device created by Future-Tec, a division of Vault-Tec, to "revitalize areas of the wasteland". Neat how that works, huh?
You can download the kit here, at only 8.57 MB, and get started on some fantastic mods for the game.
On top of the kit itself, Bethesda has been arduous and generous enough to create a wiki specifically for the G.E.C.K., with over 1000 articles already up, including some very handy tutorials. Gamers familiar with Bethesda's Elder Scrolls Construction Set will be very at home because as many know, Fallout 3 runs on a heavily modified version of the Oblivion engine.
Further resources can be found on the No Mutants Allowed forums, the official unofficial fansite for all things Fallout. Aww yes.
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I'd just called it that because our other writer Kevin did, who's big into Fallout and modding.
P.S. I'm a game designer, and we don't care what you call it.
I would probably have to side with you, LogicGuy. While it's not creating something original, it is developing the software, as in, moving it along, expanding it, etc.
But there's no mention of SDKs in the Wikipedia entry (not that that's the end all be all of information or anything), so I'll leave it as is.
Call it what ever you feel like calling it, I call it an uncommon practice of keeping a game new and inventive by giving the consumers the flexability to customize their world and to express their selves that will be shared with others.
More developers should do this.
Note: I'm a FPS guy and have played all sorts of PS3's FPS games whether they are good or bad!!!!
I hope that by the time I get my PC up and running, with this game, there will be plenty of user mods that run well