2007 Mod of the Year Awards
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2007 Mod of the Year Awards
Official Event
Welcome to Mod DB and the 6th Annual Mod of the Year Awards - the definative event that showcases the best mods and indie games in the world and recognizes the teams behind them. The MOTY is a tribute to the creativity, dedication & hard work independent developers put into creating unique gaming experiences that enable us to "play something different".
Over the coming months we will showcase to you the best mods and games in the industry. You vote for those you believe are worthy of recognition. At the top of this program sits the ultimate prize, the mod of the year award won previously by Natural Selection, Red Orchestra, PoE2 and Garry's Mod. Thanks to our sponsors, this year we have a few surprizes up our sleaves not to mention a slew of prizes for the participating teams.
From Dec 1st to Jan 1st, industry professionals, developers, gamers and the general public cast their votes to decide which mods define the cutting edge of interactive entertainment and which mod teams attain gaming celebrity.
Follow the links to join us on an unforgettable journey as we present the 2007 Mod of the Year.
2007 Mod of the Year awards
Modders and gamers get ready, because we will be kicking off this years MOTY voting in a weeks time.
Posted by INtense! on Nov 16th, 2007 digg this super bookmark
It has been a big year of modding and a big year for the Mod DB, but nothing is bigger than our Mod of the Year (MOTY) awards which we look forward to launching in a weeks time. It is time to recognize and showcase the best of the best from the indie game development scene. This year we will be doing things just like we have in past years... but before we kick off the event in true Mod DB style we would like to hear from you, our community (and the players choice voters) how you would like this years event to be run.
What should the winning categories be? Who should win prizes, how should you vote? Put forward any ideas you have because we want this years event to be better than it ever has been. Mod DB team out.
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of course Top 10, maybe?
Biggest New Mod of the Year
Biggest Mod of the Year
Biggest Release Mod of the Year
who knows.... lol
Oh boy, I hope Black Mesa Source wins the best unreleased mod award again!
2007 introduces a new rule. You cannot win in the same category twice which means BMS cannot win Unreleased MOTY. They could win in other categories (for example if they released there mod, they would then be eligible for the Mod of the Year category).
I thought we had that rule last year.
We did but it wasn't really widely known...
Released mods after last years is key for me. Last year should be last year. Like the GDC awards show they just dont have the same game up each year if they win or loose they look for new games and devs.
The Black Mesa is a great mod but the comments of hope they win again is sort of old.
how bout Halo: Hoemfront!?!?!? lolz (sorry for the shameless pushing of my own mod, but we are ranked 5th :p)
My comment about Black Mesa was purely sarcasm.
Yeah, I love MOTY, definitely need to find completely new mods!
The moddb awards should be in 3d :P
I agree that there should be a Standalone category.
No, I meant the actual pictures of the moddb awars should be in 3d :)
I accidentally clicked "reply" to the wrong comment...
Are there coming special awards for standalone games / mods?
I think those awards need a bit more polish...
How about a "fast track" or "teamwork" mod (editor's choice) award for a mod with quality content that was developed in a short period of time?
Hope you guys put together a nice video dealie for the finalist entries and announced winners, would go a long ways into building up the anticipation and prestige of the event. Also, why not contact the winners and have short interviews with the winning teams (future plans and what not). Video would be nice but audio is a more realistic goal.
Moar buttsechs!
No, but maybe:
Best Media release (of all time)
Most played Mod (by Game)
Most silent Mod (of all time)
Best coop mod, best wtf mod, ...
Best Atmosshpere
Best Story
There's so much..
I would like to see an award category for lone modders on this site like myself who are doing all the work for themselves as this is a much harder process to complete. But all this site ever seems to recognise is groups or teams with no thought for the lone modders out there, hell i'm also always be recognised as a group or a team by this site & over members & it clearly stated in my profile that I am working alone, & i'm always hereing people banging on about how modding is a team game, which it is not always.
So come on lets here it for us lone modders.
Yes, Those one man army modders should be recognized, I know lot of guys that have keept communities alive by themselfs alone.
Yes myself & my buddy Maddieman ( The Real world - Matrix mod ), have been carrying the torch for Max Payne 1 mods & trying to keep the Max Payne community alive for the last year or so now, & thanks for that comment mate.
signed in support
I know that, at Severance:Blade of Darkness Prospero have realesed alone almost 10 single player mods for the game and have done tutorials and solving questions about modding.
Most of the modding communities are not as Half Life, that have lot of people in it.
Now that Addondb and Moddb are one and the same, do addons somehow get to participate?
ALSO: I hope this year that the modders that managed to reach to the TOP 100 stage, will be told after the awards have finished just how far up the TOP 100 chart they came, as last year you would'nt give out this infomation, & I think this is totally unfair to the modders that have worked so hard to achieve even getting that far, & it would get them a much needed boost for something that's, lets face it, not that easy to achieve at the best of times.
Sven coop 3.5
I think that the mods should all be Realesed.
From the realesed ones, it should be good to let people to vote by categories.
Categories by Genre
Best Action Mod.
Best Survival Horror
Best RPG
Best Driving
Best RTS
Best Adventure
Best Simulator
By Gameplay
Best Multiplayer Mod
Best single player mod
Most inovative gameplay
Most Bizarre Gameplay concept
Best Thrid Person cam Mod
Best First Person cam Mod
Most immersive
To the artists
Most Original Concept
Best Soundtrack
Best Story
Best Desing
Best level designer
Best FX Sounds
Sounds good to me ;) .
Don't hate on us coders.
I can't think a way to rate the code. How could be possible if a code is better than another?
Look at the HL2 Empires mod, then look at any other Hl2 mod.
The Coding in the Empires mod is by far more superior than any of the others.
the problem with doing only released mods, is the sheer fact there aren't enough new ones every year.
Yes but the only way to know if smething is good is to play it. How could you know if something is good enough to be awarded if you havent played it.
And another thing is, if a realesed mod have an Award, is because people have played it and it is good.
Yea, for unreleased mods, anything they say will be in it is all B.S. because I can start a mod and say it will be so great and say it will have a lot of cool features (and list and describe the features), win the best unreleaed mod, and then not put any of those features in it.
The only way to accurately tell whether a mod is good or not is to play it. Just like games....some games look better in the trailers for the games, some look a lot worse in the trailer.
Simply put: Believe what someone has already done, not what they say they are going to do.
well i think an award for small mod teams would be great, working on a mod which is now just 3 guys, even though we have a big mod appearance it would be nice to see the little guys get a shot... other than i'd say keep things simple
Yes, but 2 or 3 members is counts as a team, where as lone modders seem to have no award catagory given to them. No Offence
I proposed that idea sometime way back when, but it was never put into effect.
I'm glad you guys are keeping everything on schedule even during the v4 release. =D
this makes me feel warm in my pants, oh there on fire...
asylum is going to win unreleased mod of the year
Just because it was advertised on Battle-Cast-Prime-Time doesn't mean it will win the award. :P
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! Best luck to all of the teams!
Me too. I would also like to see a category that gives props to mods that don't stoop to ripping-off other ppl's intellectual property. That means no Half-life subplot derivatives, no Star Wars/Trek mods, no Dragonball Z mods, no nothing but mods involving original ideas.
Let's pay some respect to the mods that don't rely on a team of highly paid professionals to do their design work for them, mods that don't rely on a world-wide ready-made fanbase. Give props to the mods who earn their watched list!
I agree. A "Best Original Concept Award" would be a damn fine inclusion.
Damn straight! I couldn't have said it any better.
I agree. Well said ;D
Also agree.
Would the HL2 Empires mod be a nice shiney example? :D
(sorry for mentioning Empires several times but it seems very left out for all the work that's gone into it)
@ halloween yeh no offence taken what i was suggesting is a small team prize and a 1 man mod team prize (Especially for the latter). No mods im working on will win anything but i still enjoy it.
Yes, but again you can't start giving out individual awards based on different team sizes, like I said, a team is still a team weither it has 2 or 3 members. Where as a 1 man modding can in no way be considered a team by definision.
I think that the "Alone modders" shouldn't have an award they should have articles or news or something to call attention on them to allow others to join their projects. I now that you are doing a good mod,I'm a zombie fan too and I'm waiting to play your mod. But it is not a guarantee about your mod will have the quality to be awarded.
By this comment you presume that all lone modders are working alone because they can not get anyone to join them in creating their mod. This is a common misconception about lone modders as it is most often not the case as I myself have had many offers from other modders to join me in creating my mod, but I have declined all of these kind offers as I choose to work alone as I do not want anyone elses vision of what aspects of what my mod should look like encroaching my own vision.
As for your second comment, QUOTE: But it is not a guarantee about your mod will have the quality to be awarded UNQUOTE, well this comment is not relivant as the same thing could be said about any unreleased mod, weither it be by a lone modder like myself, or by a team.
You said exactly the opposite to this further up the page man, make your mind up.