How to attract modders to your game?

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Published on 2013-10-20T17:13:11Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 22:13 UTC
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I am developing a game, but as I am working on it alone, the amount of content I can create is very limited. Because of that I want my game to be modded, for this purpose I am planning to create a complete modding API which would be exposed for lua scripting. I would also create tutorials to get people started. And the "Original" game would also be a "mod"(similar to Warcraft III maps) .

My question is: What can a developer do to encourage modding of its game?

PS: my game is a sandbox-ish multiplayer survival(most things are procedural).

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