Minh Lee and Jess Cliffe converted the vast alien-filled world of Valve's single-player Half-Life into a terrorist/counter-terrorist multiplayer desert battleground whose internet presence spread like wildfire, prompting the designers to be hired by Valve for a retail Counter-Strike release and tens of thousands of LAN parties organized for 8v8 teams across the world.ĭefense of the Ancients (2003) by Eul, Guinsoo and IceFrog Hard to believe that it began as a fan-created mod for Half-Life. This best-selling multiplayer modification revolutionized online PC gaming and introduced millions to the first-person shooter. Mod development is better in a lot of ways of both honing your skills and demonstrating your talent to a potential employer than work experience as there are going to be fewer institutional barriers and creative constraints to limit the work you do."Ĭounter-Strike (1999) by Minh Lee and Jess Cliffe
Whether you use Civilization or Warcraft III or Hammer doesn't matter as much as that you are building and shipping stuff to customers, getting their feedback, and then iterating your work. In countless interviews, Valve founder Gabe Newell professes this path as the way to garner serious attention from industry professionals: "The best thing to do is to start making content using the mod tools that are out there. Valve was the first major game developer to embrace and actively encourage this creative aspect of game communities, routinely hiring fans that were exceptional level designers to work on official Valve projects. It is difficult to attempt a discussion of the mod history without explicitly mentioning Valve Software, developer of Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal. This is merely an effort to identify those mods that have played a role in the current culture of major release games, the ones that proved most influential and achieved crossover success, with some even recognized by the industry and refitted for commercial release. Trying to round up a canonical list of 'the best' mods is frankly impossible-practically each semi-successful PC game of the past 20 years has spawned a dedicated modding community. At the core of the idea, mods enable an enthusiastic fanbase to build upon and improve the developer's creation.
Game mods have grown in stature over the past generation, as level-building became less technical and more encouraged, leading some of these user-made creations to even be championed by the game's original developers.
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