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Members of the development team had previously worked with developers of Counter-Strike on the mod Action Quake 2. Counter-Strike – A team-based tactical first-person shooter game involving rounds of combat between two teams, counter-terrorists and terrorists. Counter-Strike was later released commercially by Valve as a standalone game.
Team Fortress Classic: Quake: 1996 1999 April 7 The original mod (simply named Team Fortress) was a mod for Quake, but it was acquired by Valve and ported to GoldSrc for its standalone release as Team Fortress Classic. The game has also received a sequel. Tiberian Sun Reborn: Command & Conquer: Renegade: 2008 2013 June 1 [67]
Based on id Software's open stance towards game modifications, their Quake series became a popular subject for player mods beginning with Quake in 1996. Spurred by user-created hacked content on their previous games and the company's desire to encourage the hacker ethic, Id included dedicated modification tools into Quake, including the QuakeC programming language and a level editor.
"2Fort" (also known by its file name "ctf_2fort") is a multiplayer map playable in the first-person shooter games Quake Team Fortress, Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress 2, and in the multiplayer total conversion mod Fortress Forever.
Team Fortress originally was a Quake mod. Team Fortress was originally a modification for Quake (1996), [14] and then later for QuakeWorld, developed by TF Software Pty. Ltd. Its developers were working on a standalone version, Team Fortress 2, when they were hired by Valve to write a port of Team Fortress as a mod for Valve's game Half-Life. [15]
Mods for Quake (1996) such as "Capture the Flag" and "Team Fortress" became standard features in later games in the shooter genre. [6] While first-person shooters are popular games to mod, [7] the virtual pet genre with games such as Petz (1995) and Creatures (1996) fostered younger modders, particularly girls. [8]
Notable games include Natural Selection, Cry of Fear and Sven Co-op, with Valve's Team Fortress Classic, Counter-Strike, and Day of Defeat all being based on GoldSrc mods of the same names. Sven Co-op have since been released for free as a standalone game on Steam, which use a licensed derivative of the engine with their own customizations.
A free Quake 3 like comical FPS game Xonotic: Team Xonotic 2010-12-23 2023-06-20 (0.8.6) Linux, OS X, Windows: DarkPlaces Quake engine: GNU GPL: Fork and direct successor of the Nexuiz Project. Team Fortress 2: Valve: 2007-10-7 2019-3-28 Windows, Mac OS, Linux. Source: Proprietary license