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Making Games Live Longer With Mods

Posted by timothy on from the fun-if-not-deep dept.

rmohr02 writes: "Popular Science has an interesting article about people hacking games to get more replay value out of them. It mentions games like Quake and Doom which are still played due to the mods people distribute for them, and that the code for Doom's level editor was made free so hackers could use that code to get what they wanted. It also mentions that the next Team Fortress hack, Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms, will not be distributed for free."

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  1. Re:Making /. posts live longer with mods - A HOWTO by EricKrout.com · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1) Locate a newly-posted article
    2) Search Slashdot for a similar article about the same topic (or something vaguely similar ;-) from a few weeks or months ago
    3) Find a 4- or 5-rated comment, change a few words around (i.e. "Bill Gates" -> "Microsoft CEO", "insightful" -> "interesting", etc.), and repost as your own! This technique has been proven to work time and time again, and it can be yours AT ABSOLUTELY NO COST!

    N.B. - "No cost" does not include lawyer fees for plagairism/I.P. trials

    erickrout.com