Hello, welcome to GamesModding.com, we’re an archive at the moment. We might return in the summer. Until then, here’s some of our best bits:

Most popular tutorials:
- Setting up Diablo 2 Mods
- Getting Started with Diablo 2 Modding
- Unreal Tournament 3 coding primer – where to put it, compiling it and cooking it
- Call of Duty style iron sights in UT3
- Red Alert 3: Downloading and Installing Mod Tools
- Enabling Ladder Runewords and Creating a New Runeword for Diablo 2
- Using Your Unit Model in C&C3 Tiberium Wars

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Lewis Denby, a videogame journalist and modder, had a chat with Games Modding about his Post Script mod:

GM: What is Post Script about?

Lewis: It’s about love, and hatred, and the ways humanity deals with terrible events. It’s about the nature of reality. It’s about trying to toy with people’s minds a little bit. It’s about five episodes long, and has a few puzzles along the way.

Read more »

Welcome to Games Modding’s first News Roundup. This roundup covers interesting modding news from the last 2 weeks. If you like this roundup, let us know and we’ll do more of them in the future.
- David

General

• Digital Distribution Summit
  “Presenting a series of hour long talks by industry veterans who discuss how much indies are earning with their Steam, PSN, XBOX and iPhone games. And how you can get your title onto these platforms and help it become a hit.”

Public Relations

• Wolfire’s PR Tips
  Wolfire has written a great article on his public relations strategy as applied to Overgrowth.

Coding

• Be the Man: Beginning Games Programming #1
  Ambershee has written an 8 page tutorial on programming, aimed at aspiring games programmers, who have never seen code before.

Half-Life 2

• Age of Chivalry update
  The Age of Chivalry team have unveiled some new weapons and released a hotfix to correct some bugs.
• CSS SCI FI 3: Hardwired
  PlanetPhillip has an early release of ‘CSS SCI FI 3: Hardwired‘, a mod in which you play missions set in the Half-Life universe, but using Counter-Strike: Source maps.
• Podcast 17, Transmission: 17015
  Transmission Code: 17015 is up, covering L4D, mod releases, media and more.

Halo 3

• How to Make a Good Infection Map
  WikiHow has a collection of tips and hints for making Infection maps.

Infinity

• Large Update
  Indie game Infinity has posted a large update, including info on a new tool: ASEToBin, which “allows contributors and artists to export their model from 3DS Max’s .ASE file format and to visualize and prepare the 3D model for integration into the game.

Steam

• Garry’s Mod Sale Stats
  Garry has released the sales figures for his mod-turned-retail ‘Garry’s Mod‘.

Unreal Tournament 3

• Make Something Unreal Contest Finalists
  The finalists for the Make Something Unreal Contest Phase 4 have been announced.
• New Hardcore Oldskool Low-Poly Map Pack release
  HOLP3 Volume 2 has been released.

Feedback on GM’s first news roundup would be great.
If you’ve got news you want to share, post on the forums or email: david@gamesmodding.com

I’ve been receiving some mail:

 
Adam:
“Just emailing you regarding a new mod that was released Sunday 20th Sept 2009 called Korsakovia (HL2). It’s the fourth instalment of projects designed by Dan Pinchbeck, creator of the award winning Dear Esther (HL2).”

 
Smurf:
“Mideast Crisis 2’s (C&C3) site has a HUGE update including a detailed postmortem on our first release, along with many screenshots and details of the new UN Peacekeepers faction.”

 
Phillip:
“I have started adding new sites [to Valve Community].”

 
Matt:
“I was wondering if you would be interested in being affiliated with my more recent project, Unconfessional Design?
Its a Starcraft 2 Modding community I’m making.”

 
Send me mail: david@gamesmodding.com

What mod are you working on at the moment? Why are you working on this mod and not another? What’s your role in development of the mod?

Post in the comments.