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Nexus Mods is a website that hosts computer game mods and other user-created content related to video game modding.It is one of the largest gaming mod sites on the web, [2] with 30 million registered members and 3146 supported games as of October 2024, with a single forum and a wiki for site- and mod-related topics.
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.
Mod DB is a website that focuses on general video game modding.It was founded in 2002 by Scott "INtense!" Reismanis. As of September 2015, the Mod DB site has received over 604 million views, has more than 12,500 modifications registered, [1] and has hosted more than 108 million downloads. [2]
A group of mod developers may join to form a "mod team". Doom (1993) was the first game to have a large modding community. [6] In exchange for the technical foundation to mod, id Software insisted that mods should only work with the retail version of the game (not the demo), which was respected by the modders and boosted Doom ' s sales.
[1] Black Mesa - A third-party recreation of Half-Life (1998) that was made in response to the release of Half-Life: Source (2004), a port of the original game to the Source engine. [2] Black Mesa originally released as a free mod in September 2012, and later had a full commercial release on Steam in March 2020. [3] [4]
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] Original mod was called CnC Reborn. Tower Unite: Garry's Mod: 2009 ...
FMOD is available under multiple license schemes: [3] FMOD Non-Commercial License, which allows software not intended for commercial distribution to use FMOD for free.; FMOD Indie License, a bottom level license for software intended for commercial distribution, with development budgets less than US$500k.
A softmod (short for software modification) is a method of using software to modify the intended behavior of hardware, such as computer hardware, or video game consoles in a way that can overcome restrictions of the firmware, or install custom firmware.