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How to Make HD 1080p Backgrounds for HL1/Goldsrc Games

Sep 16 2020 Half-Life UI/HUD 3 comments

While a tad tedious, implementing HD backgrounds is actually a fairly simple task, and this guide will show you how to do it!

Creating a new Planetary Annihilation unit in Blender

Sep 15 2020 Planetary Annihilation: TITANS Weapons Modelling

Creating a new Planetary Annihilation unit in Blender by killerkiwijuice.

How to Installs my mod

Sep 12 2020 After war time Mod Installers

This installer tutorial will teach how to installs my mod. (Next Release I going to not include normal Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge because is my mistake...

How to add new Food Types in Food Dispensers

Sep 11 2020 Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis Starting a mod

By the end of this tutorial, you will learn how to add new food sources inside of Food Dispensers in JPOG.

ACM Overhaul V6 Install Guide by TheSpoons313

Sep 6 2020 TemplarGFX's ACM Overhaul Installers

Community Legend TheSpoons313 has kindly created this installation video to assist people with getting ACMO V6 up and running.

Beyond repeatable attacks

Aug 30 2020 Soldiers: Skirmish Props Modelling 1 comment

Do you remember an extra mission from the vanilla game, Tank attack? Identical waves of enemy tanks attacking your brave Red Army soldiers? So boring...

Helpless tank destroyers? Not anymore!

Aug 29 2020 Soldiers: Skirmish Props Modelling 1 comment

The mod includes slight fixes for various units to increase computer's player chances against you :) For example, tank destroyers/self-propelled guns/assault...

Netradiant-Custom fix

Aug 24 2020 Star Trek: Elite Force Level Design/Theory

This is a way to fix Netradiant-Custom for Star Trek Voyager Elite Force.

Customizing the Post Effect Shader

Aug 11 2020 Textures Tutorial

An explanation of options and ways to customize the post processing effects of the Sins: Remastered shaders.

Modding MechCommander - ABL's scripting extracted mission files

Aug 9 2020 Modding MechCommander Mapping/Technical

This article is a "more in detail" explanation and breakdown that should give you an insight & introduction into modding MechCommander missions - which...

How to Write a Kickass Game Description

Aug 5 2020 PR Tutorial

Article outline: 1 - Anatomy of a great game description (DOs) | 2 - Game description mistakes (DONTs) | 3 - Tips for creative writing.

Rage Toolkit tutorials and updates

Aug 1 2020 Ehrlia: Summerwheel Mapping/Technical 2 comments

In this article, I discuss what I have been up to, and I upload a couple of screenshots of work done on a racing level, and one of the tutorials from...

Five Ways to Get Storytelling Inspiration

Aug 1 2020 Harmonic Odyssey: The Five Gods Design/Concepts

Thinking you have to have the writing of your game all figured out the minute you start working on it is a mistake. Thinking ideas should just "come to...

idTech1: How to easily identify the many different WAD files

Jul 30 2020 Other Tutorial

Many WAD files have the same name (e.g. DOOM.WAD). The versions can only be differentiated correctly using hash values. Here is my simplified solution...

Modding MechCommander: Adding new MechWarrior's voice-packs

Jul 29 2020 Modding MechCommander Voice Acting

This article explains how to create new Voice packages / *.PAK files for the SOUND folder in MechCommander 1 / Gold. Have fun modding MechCommander!

MechCommander 1 / Gold - further Modding notes

Jul 23 2020 Modding MechCommander Design/Concepts

This is the second general modding MechCommander article. It should include many key informations for people who want to mod MechCommander. Have fun modding...

MC1 - The Repulse Standalone - Content Overview

Jul 22 2020 MechCommander Gold Hi Res Level Design/Theory

This article is an overview for the Russian MechCommander Demo Mod Standalone Built - MechCommander Gold - TheRepulse. This mod was never finished, but...

Far Cry 2: Let’s change the weapons in the hud popups!

Jul 12 2020 Far Cry 2: Vanilla+ (Tom's Mod) UI/HUD 1 comment

The guide will cover changing which weapons are shown by the popups that appear during the tutorial, convoy reward screens and weapon shop computer adverts...

Fixing your Amnesia screenshots with GIMP

Jul 4 2020 Amnesia: The Dark Descent PR 3 comments

This short tutorial will teach you how to make your screenshots look like they would in the game.

Tuto: Visualizing game analytics with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Jun 29 2020 Unspottable Other

For the steam summer festival, we released the first demo of our game: Unspottable. This is a quick summary of the data points we are gathering and how...

Leave your input!

Jun 21 2020 Azurians Level Design/Theory 1 comment

All feedback will be considered! Check out some of the units:

How we spent two weeks to create a concept art for Frozen Flame

Jun 19 2020 Frozen Flame Concept Art

Concept art is (rightly) very popular as it lets the artists really express themselves while helping to give the game designers/developers a good direction...

Play the mod in higher resolution!

Jun 8 2020 Jurassic Park Hunter Legends Other

Have you wished to play the Jurassic Park Hunter mods in a resolution that modern games use? well, here I will tell you how to do it!

Mayhem 3: How To Install?

Jun 1 2020 Mayhem Installers

Install instructions of Mayhem 3 and all its dependencies.

Fixing turning rate of monsters at high fps

May 27 2020 Half-Life Server Side Coding 3 comments

We all know when you set high fps in Half-Life (like above 150 or so) the monsters begin to turn veeeery slowly and only after that doing their functions...

China: Double Dragon Rush

May 23 2020 Rise of the Reds: Babushka's Revenge Other

First in a series of gameplay techniques - how to do effective rushes as certain factions, how to defend against them. This one is on the double Dragon...

Age of Stainless Steel - Military units - Part 4

May 12 2020 Age of Stainless Steel Design/Concepts

Explaining the military units of Age of Stainless Steel (AOE2 mod), types, advantages and disadvantages and how to use them. This is part 4 - the Stable...

Gameplay movie released

May 12 2020 MiNNaDe Counter Fight PR

Released the gameplay movies of the main stages of MiNNaDe counter fight.

Timelapse of character animation in Spine2d

May 9 2020 Almost My Floor Animation 2 comments

Check out how to make simple character animation in spine for your game projects.

UV Chopping for model textures

May 2 2020 FlatLine-Arena Textures

So Half-Life 1 is now 20+ years old. Yet I do believe it's pretty much still alive. The community is still working on custom mods and a lot of new content...