Towards the end of March, God made a signficant event that just may please us all. The Independent Games Festival will be happening before we know it. Some of ModDB, I believe, will be taking a trip to San Jose, CA to attend this event, and just this morning they have announced their mod finalists:
- IGF Best Mod - 'Half-Life 2': Dodgeball: Source, Dystopia, Eclipse, Hidden: Source, Plan Of Attack.
- IGF Best Mod - 'Neverwinter Nights': Bitter Harvest, Hythum II: The Halls Of Kilgirn, Rose Of Eternity - Chapter 1, Runes Of Blood, The Hunt.
- IGF Best Mod - 'Unreal Tournament 2004': Dragonfly Variations, HamsterBash, Path Of Vengeance, The Awakening, The Soulkeeper.
- IGF Best Mod - 'Doom 3': Last Man Standing, Doom3[CC].
The winners will recieve a grand prize of $2,500. As the time gets closer we will have an insight on each of the finalists mods.
kean - as was mentioned on the first page of comments, the comp was only open to mods that had released something playable when entry was open so insurgency couldn't enter.
nzMM - garry said he didn't want to pay for entry, which is fair play. What's any award worth? It's a good bit of recognition and well, it looks good on the cv if you can say "IGF finalist" (of course, that depends on the person reading it knowing what the IGF is)
There's a loophole in the IGF rules that will allow games that didn't make it in this year to compete next year.
Im disgusted Killing Floor is not on there!
Wow, I'm surprised Gmod isn't on the list of HL2 mods.
Insurgency??? come on that looks like the best one so far for HL2, also Neotokyo
Hell naw I ain't paying to enter a mod contest - no matter how little it costs.
Still, most of the mods up there suck. An "Independent" award would be better off awarded to a one-man team ;)
Insergency is not released yet so it cant win!
What about the MOTY awards?
heartbreaking, i would've hoped to see more doom mods.
same ere :( If Dark Mod, Hexen, Recall to Hell, Ground Zero and Facing Hell had just released demos or something the competition wold be much hotter
Yeah. I haven't been particularly impressed by any of those HL2 mods. Hopefully this year will be more promising. I look forward to Neotokyoº, Insurgency, and a few others.
I like dodgeball source for one and think its great and all but...
Garry's mod is easily 150%better han even the best of the mods listed, they must be mad for those lists
@ Demonhunter2005
Don't you understand that you had to pay for entering a mod ? Gary didn't enter/pay so it can't be on the list.
doesn't matter, one can still wish that garry's mod won.
The mods up there for HL2 aren't bad. I've checked em out. I'm a huge fan of dystopia. Most of the mods don't have a huge impact, like wow that is crazy and so new and different. Gmod is fun, and has alot to it, but it doesn't blow me away. The only one I find to bring something to the table is Dystopia. It's one of those games that doesn't stand on the same platform as others. You can see inpirations from other places, but yet it's on it's own level and has set a standard that should be and shall be followed in time. Yes it's in the demo phase, but it's like playing the Wolfenstein demo for the first time, and loading up the 5 1/2 floppy's and going man.... this rocks, or getting doom on a pcgamer cd and thinking to yourself.... holy this is pure madness. There's so much potential.... well to me Dystopia gives me that feeling and it has that same potential. To those that haven't checked it out. You should, don't let this mod die like everyone did to ToD for halflife. Special-Delivery out!
I believe it was free to enter Garry.. or at least we didn't pay anything to enter Dystopia
Oh.. well don't tell them that :)
The entry fee was reduced (from what I don't know).
That whole quote sums up why I didn't submit GMod.
I don't get this part of the D3 one: "No other entries were of finalist quality"
so you pay, but they dno't bother to even look/judge your mod because, to them, it's not finshed? I'd like to see one mod that has EVER been finished! :D
Why don't students have to pay anything? They get software at discount, room & board is most taken care of... I had MORE $$$ when I was a student! grrr....
Is it not a tad unfair that you didnt pay to enter the mod into IGF and others did? Are you sure you didnt pay to enter Dystopia?
to be honest, since modding is based around the FREE use of commercial tools, for NO-PROFITABLE gain, the idea of awarding the winner in money is strikes me as being a bit ironic. My only hope is that this type of incentive does not encourage future mod developers to focus their efforts with the pure intention of winning money. Sorry if that sounds elitist but in a world where 90% of peoples goals, dreams and aspirations are fueled by and directed towards money, I think it'd be nice to know there is atleast one medium (or atleast one level of a medium) that remains immune to it.
Together, Money and stupid people go along way in destroying everything. Once again though, sorry if that sounds elitist
It is a paid contest so perhaps not a fair representation of modding as a whole. Still I believe each of those finalists are very deserving!
Oh and Mod DB MOTYs voting is now closed... results shall be announced shortly!!!
Wherer can I download Half-Life: Dodge Ball?
BOO
turns out Fuzzy bankrolled our entry, god bless him. He's always willing to give to the cause!
From the ones I've played, for Half-Life 2, Eclipse is deffinately an interesting game. I had fun with it but haven't installed it back on since I had to reformat. Eclipse is deffinately a very original idea.
I haven't played Dystopia yet, but from the screens and what not, there is deffinately a lot there. I'll have to install it as it seems very interesting.
Insurgency should be on there :)
Yea no Gmod????????????? It is actually the most played mod(in the true ssense of the word) for HL2. So what the hell? There goes me thinking people actually playing a mod, indicates that its good. Silly me!
So really what is this IGF award worth, besides money? Kinda bizarre and lacking credibility imo, anyways on with the show, because thats what it is.
Wow i sound bitter!
Ciao.