For the past eight years ModDB has celebrated modding culture in style with the always popular Mod of the Year Awards. Developers, gamers and enthusiasts come together to vote of their favorite mods and indie games, giving something back to the developers who created the experience they enjoyed so much. ModDB, with its heavy focus on community leaves it in your hands to select the winners, and for the past 7 years you have not disappointed with some great titles taking out the grand prize.
With the latest spot in the Hall of Fame and a couple of prizes up for grabs, mod and indie game developers have a lot to compete for. This year the MOTY awards will follow a similar pattern to the very successful 2008 event with 5000+ candidates being widdled down to the final few over the course of 30 days (15 days for phase 1 and 2). To help you get your project noticed, we have put together some promotional tools which you are free to post on your website, as you encourage your fans to vote.
Whether you're new to the community or a long time member, voting for your top choices of the year is easy. Both members and non-members of ModDB can vote by navigating to a mod or indie game's profile and clicking the vote button located just underneath the summary section (see below). Member votes are more valued so be sure to register if you want your voice to be heard! While you're at it, have a look at some of the other mods on the site, there's an endless amount of free entertainment to be had on a variety of game engines, platforms and genres.
From all the staff here at ModDB, we wish all entrants the best of luck and thank you for creating new gameplay experiences that entertain gamers all over the world. For full details on voting and contest rules, check out the 2009 Mod of the Year profile. Keep on modding!
Good luck to all contestants.
Yeah! Go everyone.
That time of the year again already? Where does it go? lol. Best of luck to all! :)
Thought the same, looking forward what wins this year's mod of the year.
I'm willing to bet Research&Development is gonna get a fairly high spot at the very least.
My hopes are for Jailbreak:Source winning even though 0.6 hasn't released... if it were released it would have a high chance imo, either way one of my votes goes to Jailbreak:Source!
It WILL be out before the finals! So I really hope we get in!
My votes are going to PVKII and R&D :D
dont forget about Korsakovia
... It's been a year already? Wow. Good luck to everyone!
EDIT: Oh-ho! Orion beat me to it.
whoohoo! i always enjoy when this rolls around!
Yeah strated!
Vote now 4 your favoutite mods/games!
Bääm baby
woohoo the best time of the year is upon us!
Great, great, grrrreaaat! <3 Time to collect all that spirit of updates and peptalks, and merge it all into what we love most about the coming new year; More released and upcoming mods! <3
Good luck everyone, and thank you for providing our excellent community with incredible mods that makes games that inch (or mile?) better.
Hell yeah (=
Same question as every year: Standard Banners are 468x60px, 88x31px, a.s.o and none of the graphics inside the media section fits to produce one of them. This is an "online" voting. Please make some banners for online websites ^^
Well we are making these logos more for blog / news posts. I have made a few for you now, hope that helps: Moddb.com
maaan i hope we can release our mod inside this timeframe to see how it goes!!!
this is exiting!!
Well even if you dont, you can still be nominated for a "best upcoming" award.
Damn I like this new logo^^
Vote now!
I'd love to see a mod for an old-school game win this year, something from the Command & Conquer series, maybe.
Good luck to my fellow mod leaders.
How about Freelancer? ( Moddb.com )
Best of luck, everyone!!!
I'm not familiar with it to be honest, I don't really play a lot of games, only the C&C series.
May the best REAL MOD win this year, instead of just a map... lol... Please make sure the rule changes reflect the injustice of last years results. Thanks. That said, best to all MODS in the running.
How do you vote for an upcoming mod? All I can see is a button to vote for best mod of the year?
Mod I'm trying to vote for: Moddb.com
That button works for both released and upcoming. You just need to press it to vote
Just click for that vote button then, there's no other way, if the mod is unreleased it will simply become a canditate for best unreleased regardless of what the button calls it.
Edit: Ninja'd by INtense!
And another great year among moddb passes by
This is going to be a smashing competition. May the best mod win.
Was it a great year for mods? Maybe. I tried playing as much as I could but got bored quickly. I think out of everything I played the Haunted performed best. Also, I'm amazed Killing Floor never won the title (too late now).
Good luck to all the mods! Will be nice to see a lot of trailers for what's to come. Diaspora (though indie game, idk if it still fits in the competition) should release an update. There are still a lot of BSG fanboys waiting for it - including myself ;)
Good luck to all good mods!
I always look forward to this time. :)
We've been spoiled in 09 with so many good mods and maps (with several more due for release very shortly !!).This will be a great event this year with some tough voting decisions ! Good luck to all !!
Love the logo.Nicely done !
will it have new categorys like...machinima or maps or i donno...?
Hard to believe it has been a whole year - it really has just flown. Love the MOTY awards and I look forward to these ones.
sadly some mods like Korsakovia dont have an vote option, is it up to the authors to let thier mod nominatied moty or is it automaticly if the mod is released in 2009 then there is an option?
It has a vote option? Are you looking at the mods profile? Check the screenshot in this news post to see the button you need to click.
sorry for beeing dumb. i looked at the news page :-(
Kind of a weird way to make us vote, but yeah.
NeoTokyo! It'd better take first this year! It got RIPPED off last year in Best Upcoming.
Very nice =)))
I can't wait! Bring on the mods!
Wohoo!
May the best Mod win!!!
Actually, screw that. May C&C shockwave win!!!
Bring it on!
Go Research & Development!
The promo video is great. It's really nice that the Mod of the Year event has started again!
WOW! 2009 is ending? Haven´t it started tomorrow? Anyway, I´can´t wait to see the best mods of the year!!!
Good luck everyone!
Cooool, Cant wait to see my game "Reallife:The Game" on game of the year .. heheh
Good luck to everyone !
May the best win !
Marco
Great promo video - but I disagree with the notion that The Specialists "still has one of the best communities ever made." Are you kidding? It's practically dead, and most of what it is now is roleplaying. TS pretty much died like two years ago.
i dont know what to decide this year
This time of the year already? Time to hype it up!
Really good promo video!
So many great MODs, time to start voting.... this will take awhile ;)
Research and Developement, Dangerous World and Median XL all deserve to place among the best.
Their so many good choices this year, this is going to get interesting