As far as mods go, it was really simple from a technical perspective: a small map full of crates, and a PPM (plugin player model) that let players appear as crates, and no custom code or anything. In this case, I argue that modders predate AAA design practice by at least 19 years.ĬrateDM was a Quake 2 mod released on April 14, 1998, made in an hour by Chris "Shatter" Holden. Arkane Studios' recent sci-fi shooter Prey (2017) cleverly commercializes this mechanic in a way that modders never could, and while it's nice to know they're paying attention to current trends, I think it's also important to remember the modders that usually get erased from game design histories.
The prop hunt is interior design meets hide and seek, where hiders "hide" in plain sight, disguised as the decorative clutter common in video game worlds, and seekers must guess what is inanimate clutter and what is sentient clutter. MOBAs, tower defense, realistic squad shooters, walking simulators, survival royales, all started as mods. (For those keeping score: Aeon of Strife for Starcraft 1 or DOTA for Warcraft 3, innumerable tower defense UMS maps for Starcraft 1, Counter-Strike for Half-Life 1, Dear Esther for Half-Life 2, Day-Z for ARMA.)Īdd the "prop hunt" to the list. But if they make a mistake and destroy the wrong objects, it will be them who die.Īfter each round, each team will change their roles: the hunters will become props, and the props, hunters.This post contains minor gameplay spoilers for the first hour of Prey (2017).Ĭontemporary game design is built on the blood, sweat, and tears of countless modders. The red team has 30 seconds to disguise and camouflage itself as an element of the scenario, while the blue team has to find the hidden players and kill them. With this GMod extension installed on our Windows PC, we can take part in a kind of hide and seek game played by 2 teams. This game mode is similar to what we can find in other open world games like Minecraft, and its Hide n' Seek mod, that has become tremendously popular thanks to videos by different youtubers, including PewDiePie or Markiplier, among others.
With this add-on you'll have access to a new gaming mode within GMod in which you'll play hide and seek inside the title developed by Garry Newman.Īnother GMod mod together with TTT and DarkRP. Prop Hunt is an extension for the popular sandbox game Garry's Mod launched back in 2004.
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