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"I know that somewhere in the wide world there must be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius..." Works of genius that emerge from an openly (freely?) mod-a
by nochiel 16y ago
"I know that somewhere in the wide world there must be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius..."
Works of genius that emerge from an openly (freely?) mod-able environment are not hard to find or point out: Consider "Team Fortress", a Quake mod and "Counter Strike", the brilliant mod of Half Life.
The kind of engineering and design effort that went into those two projects would have been impossible in the environment described in this article. Both those projects changed the world [of gaming].
- guscost 16y agoi bought both of those (on source) after playing the original free versions. best game purchase ever, literally.
- wmf 16y agoSo the creators of TF and CS are geniuses, but not genius enough to create standalone games? I realize that creating a mod is easier than creating a game from scratch, but doesn't talent always out?
- gchpaco 16y agoIt is highly unlikely they would have gone to the effort had they been forced to write an entire game from the ground up. Both those games evolved from simplistic (sometimes very simplistic) origins to where they are today.
- gosub 16y agoIt's not just 'easier', there are different orders of magnitude of work involved. Modding a complete game is like fast prototyping game design ideas with a very specific DSL.