Hi, crea-tures! I am a volunteer community creator on a GTA-Style UE5-based modding platform that allows developers to monetize their content. A small group of us were discussing the idea of bringing a high-quality skate experience into the ecosystem, but realize building it from scratch would be a huge challenge.
I probably put ~15 hours into Session a few years ago, but have recently moved to Skate 4 for the multiplayer (even though it's honestly a worse game). Given the competitive pressure in modern Skate sims, I think there may be meaningful opportunity here in integrating your sim with a GTA-Style platform.
A skate sim that operates in a GTA-Style environment would be next-level and would certainly one-up Skate 4, in my opinion.
I ran the suggestion through the CEO of the platform yesterday (he's active in the Discord); he said he played Skate 4 recently, previously played Tony Hawk games during his childhood and would love to find a way to work with you guys. Full disclaimer, I'm not with the company and I don't know their balance sheets - but they are a Series A, $12m+ funded company. Hopefully they could offer immediate incentives for you to work with them. As a game developer who's at the skatepark 2-3 times a week, I would personally love to see this!
I don't want to advertise another game here and apologize if this is a violation, but if you are interested in looking into this, their info is below. Thank you!
Helix
helixgame dot com
discord . gg / helixgame
People you would want to contact (not me):
"Maker" (Jack): CEO
"David007": Community Lead