Reading Qt3 I was pleased to hear news about Garry’s Mod. It’s been on Steam for two years. And it’s sold… well, take it away, Garry…
The popularity took me and Valve by surprise. As soon as it went on sale the steam servers were temporary knocked out, due to the demand. On the first day it sold 5,729 copies. Wowzer. I kind of expected that it would sell a big number of copies for the first day, then sell very few after that. I was kind of wrong, because over the next 2 years it went on to sell 312,541 copies. Which has totally knocked my socks off.
Gosh. 312,541! Sock-removing success indeed. And success born of a reasonable ten-dollar price and feeding into gamers’ endless desire to move G-man into homosexual trysts for comedy screenshots is the best kind of success. Still available, if you want to be 313,542 or similar. And here’s some things people have made in G-mod from their front page alone. Flying gnomes, etc!
The Gnome Tornado Gun!
The Laser-stool!
Er… Punching!
Hurrah!
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@Bhazor:
It’s a good GMod robot, but I think this one wins:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CP-NMpKh2Rw
It fires shipping containers! =D
What’s the “play” part of Gmod?
I read this earlier on his Blog, but anyways – Grats, Garry!
Iv’e always loved Gmod. And Iv’e played it since V6 (long before it was relaeased on Steam). What some of you say is more or less right though, theres accually quite a big bunch of idiots playing it – but It’s a part of the game now – wouldnt be the same whitout somebody to mess around with. And you can always get some resonable players onto a password-protected server of your own or join a serious community ;)
And then theres the mods and addons. Theres simply to many to count. The new experiences in Gmod never ends!
Simply put, one of the best games Iv’e ever played.
And @Calistas:
The default ‘gamemode’ in Gmod is the one called ‘Sandbox’, where there’s no objective. You simply select a map, start it up and get handed all the tools in the game to play with as you see fit. But then there are the hunderds of community-created gamemodes like ‘Zombie Survival’, ‘Spacebuild’ (where you can explore and colonize planets!), ‘TeamPlay’, ‘Stranded’ and a big bunch of Role-play-gamemodes. So theres a huge ammount of ways to play Gmod.
Please explain the laser stool. To me stool = poop and I fail to see the connection in he video.
Stool = ScriptedTool. Its a custom-made Sandbox-tool coded in the language called lua, this one simply shoots laser beams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stool
just in case..