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GTA3 Multiplayer
Kent767 writes "I'm on the development team for a GTA3 mod, called multi-theft auto. This mod makes GTA3 multiplayer over LAN or internet. Very shortly version 0.3b will be released (this is our first version which supports over 2 players). Dedicated Servers can run on Win32 machines, and a Linux version is in production.
2 of the game modes supported will be DM (Deathmatch) and CTW (Capture the Whoopie) which is a lot like capture the flag, only with a Mr. Whoopie truck." Making a great game even better! Hooray!
Gone are the days that a few maps were released and it was considered a mod. Modders these days are releasing really useful features, and in some cases entire new games. Nice work, guys!
If you want the game so badly, write it yourself!
you're appaulING.
/. community who were INTERESTED IN GAMING would have access to both windows and linux platforms at home and DO host game server on their linux boxes (like i do with Q3A).
just quickly port somebody else's game to linux quickly. sure, i'll do it tonight.
the point of modding is writing add-ons and extending the game play - not porting the whole damn thing across to another platform.
i would be quite suprised if a large majority of the
appauling, isn't it?
Uhm. It's not like this mod is a commercial product. It's free. They're just getting the word out about a great project.
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Exactly... I'm greatly thrilled that someone did this. The developers can get on with real work like Vice City, and the old game will still sell because of it's multiplayer support. I would be thrilled if I were a Rockstar investor as well. Charge people to make their own game... that's the way to do it :)
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Take a look at Half Life... That came would not be the most popular PC game of all time had Counter-Strike not been developed... And it was made completely by independent programmers, separate from Valve, Sierra, and Gearbox... I'm surprised nobody mentioned Half Life, which has the best mod-community of any game... ever. Mike
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As other posters have said, a lot of todays games are designed to be easily modified, or to have maps/weapons/models added. Game companies realize that a vibrant mod community is very helplful to continued sales of a game.... see "Life, Half".
Generally, there is something in the License agreement (or there's a seperate agreement altogether) stating what can be modded and the legal status therof. I remember an Id agreement from a few years back that you could mod anything you wanted and release it for free. If you wanted to charge money for it, you needed to contact the Id Biz department and work out royalty arrangements.
I'm not sure what the legal status of GTA mods is. I've seen instructions for adding a new car model to the game, and they're fairly complex. The game doesn't seem to have been designed to be easily modded. In that case, the legal status of said mods may be in doubt.
OTOH, Rockstar seems to be fairly cool company. There was a story here a few weeks ago (post link for cheap Karma) about how they'd released GTA2 as a free download. I would imagine that as long as a GTA3 mod didn't impact any of their commercial plans, they wouldn't have a problem with it.
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"Im going to assume that when you say Linux, you mane a console app just for serving. So where's the Linux game? You use us just for running a server because its rock solid stable, but dont put the time in to make it playable on linux?
Im appauled. "
I'm appauled that you think somebody should rewrite an entire game for you because you're too stubborn to dual boot with Windows or buy a PS2.
"Derp de derp."
The only problem with this is that everybody will be a vigilante blowing everybody else up. No one will want to do something as boring as live a normal life in a virtual world (they can do that at their very own home) that the virtual people do so very well. I think stepping outside and getting blown away by six rocket launchers with screams of "DIE N00B!" would not be very fun at all.
The only way to make this work is to make running a more or less normal life atractive (Sims anyone?) or at least create a more or less decent ratio of virtual people to real people in an uncrowded city.
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