Comments on: Mod Gods

By: Bunnyjen

Bunnyjen — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:27:46 +0000

Hey thanks for this article. I am from the team who created First Contact Planetfall. If you haven’t voted yet or are un sure of which to vote for, please do check out our page on mod db. :) Lots of great entries in this years competition, it is going to be tough!

By: Ging

Ging — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:06:15 +0000

Hmm, while “bad boy developer” does vaguely work… I think I probably meant “bad boy develop”…

By: Ging

Ging — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:02:06 +0000

I’ve dropped a vote in for Infinity, been watching that bad boy developer for what seems like forever – it’s a point of excitement when I see a journal update of Ysaneyas over at gamedev.net or an infinity post on moddb (admittedly, they tend to be the same bit of news, but they do sometimes appear on one and not the other). I fail to follow anything on the actual infinity site though.

For actual released mods in the top 100… *cough*The Hidden*cough*

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:15:19 +0000

Wow Andrew, thanks for that link, awesome vid. I still have Homeworld 2 installed on my PC, and seeing that gives me hope for the faltered epic space fleet genre of games.

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:51:00 +0000

Sorry lads. Shockwave for Zero hour gets my vote. I’ve seen the amount of work those guys have put into it, They really have reached their goal, to make zero hour the way it should have been. Also, great fanbase, And they just released the new version the other day, after months of Duke Nukem-esque “When its done” comments. Top stuff.

By: Andrew Doull

Andrew Doull — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:45:40 +0000

Have to second Cargo Cult on Infinity: The Quest for Earth. The best argument for it is an in-engine video which includes one of the great seamless transitions that you mention.Go watch it here.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:15:41 +0000

It would have been nice to see the good folks at Team Gizka get a nod (even though their mod is in beta) for finishing the horribly rushed final chapters of Knights of the Old Republic II Sith Lords and fleshing out numerous missing features that were included in the releases files but never made it into the actual game.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:50:45 +0000

Homunculus: I keep on meaning to play it, but I haven’t got the latest Civ4 add-on.

By: Masked Dave

Masked Dave — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:06:10 +0000

I finally got around to playing Minerva: Metastasis yesterday (I was in dire need of some straight forward, single player shooting action) and my God it’s amazing! Utterly, utterly brilliant.

Some of that architecture was just awe inspiring.

By: Pod

Pod — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:47:33 +0000

I think everyone should not only vote for, but download and play Empires for Half Life 2. It’s like Natural Selection, but with tanks.

By: Cargo Cult

Cargo Cult — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:20:51 +0000

A non-mod in the unreleased list I’m utterly intrigued by is Infinity: the Quest for Earth. More than reminiscent of a certain Elite 2: Frontier, and with procedural generation of content just about everywhere, it’s got Eve-destroying, seamless transitions from solar systems down to planetary surfaces. No idea if it’ll ever get finished or released, but there’s definitely a vast amount of programming and design talent behind it.

There’s a downloadable combat prototype already available, so it’s far beyond the usual ideas-but-no-ability stage…

By: Theory

Theory — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:17:39 +0000

Uh, like half of the mods listed haven’t been released yet.

There are separate awards for released and unreleased.