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Mods of 2006 - Player's Choice
80,000 votes. 4,000 mods. Over the course of 2 months, gamers from across the globe came together to decide which mods rank as the epitome of what our hard working community can do. Now, gallons of blood and sweat later, we tell you what triumphed in 2006
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Top Indie Games Editorial
With more game engines available to develop on than ever before (Torque, Q1, Q3, XNA) more and more modders are turning towards making their own, fully fledged standalone game title. 2006 marks the first year that indie game development efforts are recognised by the Mod DB Annual Awards, and its an area we are excited to see grow, as the titles available become more diverse, creative and polished than ever before.
Honorable Mentions
Ultimately not everything can win a Standalone Game of the Year award. All of the following polled extremely strongly, but in the end aren't publically released - which is a key requirement for winning this category!
5th Place. CodeRED - Alien Arena
Alien Arena 2007 is a standalone game based off of the Quake II/III source that combines the classic sci-fi atmosphere of CodeRED with the tournament style deathmatch of Q3A and UT2k4. With major graphical enhancements such as hi-res 24/32 bit tga textures, light blooms, real time lights and shadows, stainmaps, textured particles, shaders, and reflective water, Alien Arena brings the venerable Quake II engine into modern gaming. The engine also includes mutators, adjustable effects, bot skill settings, and fully configurable deathmatch, team deathmatch, CTF, All Out Assault, Team Core Assault, and Deathball games
4th Place. Nexuiz
Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game based on the Darkplaces engine. The darkplaces engine is an advanced quake1 engine developed mainly by Forest "LordHavoc" Hale, who has been working with the Quake1 engine for many years. A few of Darkplaces main features are Quake3bsp support, realtime lighting and shadowing, new particle effects, advanced menu system, and Md3/Md2 model support. Because Nexuiz is based on the quake1 engine, its source code is entirely GPL and can be downloaded at any time by request.
3rd Place. OpenArena
OpenArena is an open-source content package for Quake III Arena licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game. You do not need Quake III Arena to play this game. You do need OpenGL accelleration though, and a minimum system requirements around the average 1998-era rig. Oh and this game runs on pretty much every platform from Linux to Mac to Windows.
2nd Place. Warsow
Warsow is a high-speed standalone deathmatch mod that utilizes a heavily modified version of the Quake 2 engine. Combined with cell shaded graphics and an emphasis on movement and jumping tricks, Warsow is one of the most frenetic mods you'll ever play.
- Fast-paced, skilled gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and the art of movement
- Complete weapon System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each gun
- Cartoonish graphics with celshading (more SF/Comics than Manga), mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures.
1st Place. Tremulous
Tremulous is an open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...
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Black Mesa rule!!:D
Yay!
* Cin waves to BigBird :D
FTN
holy hell woot so many mod so many awards and the radio has me laughing these guys are nuts also who brought the vodka wooot.
MOTY I LIKE CAKE
Some good winners. =)
Wait until you see the exclusive footage from the unreleased mods. SOME awesome work in there!
Its showing up in 5minutes
wooooo
:)
:D awesome! I don't know how those BF2 mods won though...
I'm confused. Isn't there also a 'best standalone game' category?
INtense - really?
Oh, and congratulations to Black Mesa!
Will there be a scoreboard released? as in total mods and their votes? it'd be interesting to see the numbers. Also i just want to know where my mods fell in, both were in the top 100, but seems they haven't made the final cut (till editors awards tomorrow)
Yeah a 'best standalone' catagory would be good...not too late to implement...*pleads*
Yes, and my sexy... Uh nvm.
Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions! Thanks to the MODDB staff and writers who worked tirelessly on this!
Standalone was listed on the list of awards, they had better list a best stand alone game.
nice to see some bf mods in there well dont to the moddb staff youhave all done so well :)
bah spelling
nice to see some bf mods in there :)
well done to ALL the moddb staff you have all done so well :)
Hidden: Source looks like it'd be great fun! Wish I had HL2.
How is Red alert 3 best strategy game of the year?
Yo! Been listenin since this started, and a micrphone made my ears cry blood. The crackin noise from one of thier mices anyway :D
So far this is really awsome. This is an awsome community and has shitloads to give to future gamers and such. Moddb rules and all modder,codder,artwork artist and so on, Keep at it! You´re all doing an awsome job! XD
Now im gonna stop drink coffe and get some sleep... ._.
Standalone mods will be listed during EDITORS CHOICE tomorrow. I will consider adding the players choice standalone game here also.
But especially to Point of Existence and Black Mesa!
I <3 PoE2
Grats to all winners, excellent feature in all respects. Great job Scott & crew!
:D
Congratulations to the winners!
I second the suggestion for a full scoreboard release. I'd very much like to see where did our mod end up in the top 100! And people who voted for our mod are interested in that too.
I expected way way more. I'm really disapointed.
What more did you expect?
Thank you very much to the players out there, new old and loyal, that keep rooting for this mod! Dont stop, coz we wont until you have one hell of a game, but without you we would not get as excited about continuing to make this beloved game. Its an honor to place 3rd and we appreciate that award no end!
Thanks to all the other mods that provide hours of fun and unique enjoyment too! Also again to moddb, and you the voters, Thanks! =D
On behalf of all the Team Members at FirstStrike, all the guys who voted for us a huge THANKS!
Its really unexpected to get this accolade, we didnt think we would have a chance with the sheer quality of work being pumped out from all these MODD'S. Having spent nearly a year and a half on this MOD with bare miminal tools we are now starting to make real progress.
Have to mention the team im afraid most of them arent represented here (my bad), BLITZ (the REAL MOD LEADER) who has been fundamental in multitasking many elements of FS has dedicated a huge amount of time, blood, sweat and tears to this has been an inspiration to us all.
MOD LEADER BLITZ
PRESS | RECRUITMENT
xEROhOUR FoxyLady
SOUND TEAM
Ulversial Simon Faculty Si
MAPPING
General-Unco
SKINNING
Ramseus Rybot Pumbaa Elijah JayBiggs The Preacher
MODELLING
Svenstaro Lord Bandu Luuri Ahhsai Suge RedMonkey Havoc Harryballzonya Yoyi EvilJoe
CODING | PROGRAMMING
Golden Dragon Woodrow MUAHAHAHAHA Brolin
LORE | RESEARCH
Dragunov Dutch Razor Talon Piewalker
ANIMATION
Wakkamus Lewis
CONCEPT ART
HairWolf
VO ARTISTS
Filet-o-Fist 0dd Heimgrokk vbl
SPECIAL THANKS
Aquila Tyler Alxcote Sapper Hoofer SCHRifle Nusirilo
And all the Testers
absolute Ace101 ArcAngel227 Brown750 CAAM Demonic Ferengi generalandrew Havokmann Kampher Kiffer L.C Markus
MaxMayhem MK4210 sgt. fuzz Sicarius Tulkas TY2D2 Wolverine
Lastly congratualtions to FH2 and BLACK MESA awesome work guys! Well done.
Thanks to everyone who voted for NS. We're proud to still be considered so highly.
Congratulations to everyone who participated, well done.
I'm really shocked due to the fact that none of the Doom3 mods got into this list. :S
Congratulations to all the winners because they really deserve it for their hard work and big thanks for you all who support us, we'll reward you that in some time :) .
Congratulations to all the winners!
And thanks to all the players that voted for Black Mesa, glad we're still at the top of your lists!
Hey Gents at ModDB - THANKS for running such a great site. The Project Reality team was rather shocked to be in the top 100 never mind runner up for mod of the year!
Congratulations to all mods and modders and a big thanks out to the ModDB crew from the Project Reality team.
eggman
To all the modders who picked up awards, well deserved!! :D
Mint_Sauce (Rock 24 Mod - HL2 SP Mod)
keep up the good work MODDB !!!!
because of you, the mods gain popularity and so the quality of them goes up!
Moddb rules the gaming world of course.
Congrats too all!!!
This is just wonderful! Thanks for choosing BlockStorm as the best puzzle mod of the year... although there was not too much to choose, but anyway, it's something amazing... THANKS! THANKS! THAAAANKS !!!
OMG they picked the worse mod for the winners
WOOO! empires got the genre award!
I suspected that the fan base was a little small at the moment to compete against the likes of dystopia.. but well done to all the winners!
It's nice to organize such a contest !
So good job every single dude coming here & making mods, winners and loosers: in mod making, there's nothing to loose, just big experience to get !
On a side suggestion for Mod DB, I think that it would be great to have a big table resuming how the votes were put in each mod, so that everyone can have an idea of the mod scene.
Regards.
So why is it that the top 100 has no D2 mods, but the RPG award winner is a D2 mod? <confused, feeling a bit stupid>
Can anyone please tell me what mod is shown as the very first one in the video?
Huh, interesting results, but to many freakin' BF2 and Half-Life games. :P
To the Moddb.com & the modding community gaming fans,
It's a great pleasure to check the site this morning and see that our team had become the #1 MOTY - it's definitely a great honor for the team to achieve this award and we appreciate the support from everyone. It's all about having fun - from making our games for people - and the end result -- gamers enjoying what was developed.
Moddb.com is a great site as it provides updates on all games and all mods - thank you once again!
Tom "Hathcock" Patterson
Pointofexistence.com
#pointofexistencemod on the Gamesurge IRC network