UnrealSpeed Mod Goes Racing

Thanks to GameSpy for pointing to the new 1.5 Beta of UnrealSpeed, which describes itself as "..a racing mod for Unreal Tournament 2003. Drive a car, gliding through the twists and turns to win the race. Your car is (optionally) heavily armed, so shoot your opponent into pieces if he isn't letting you get past him." This mod, using similar re-appropriation concepts to the classic Quake Rally mod, has added "..new camera views like driver eye cam, bumper cam, roof cam and rear view camera", as well as swapping out all the car models due to copyright concerns. How many other game genres can people make from clever modding of an FPS?

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Thats easy

[Quicksilver31337]

Unreal Ultimate Frisbee. Come to think of it, I may just make that mod.

2 ideas, one silly, one serious...

[wowbagger]

I have 2 ideas for FPS mods, one very silly, one serious.

The silly idea came to me when I was watching a friend of mine's dogs playing in his back yard:

Capture the Squeaky!

You are a dog, with other dogs. You get points for carrying the squeaky - every couple of seconds you bite down, it squeaks, and you get a point.
No weapons other than biting the squeaky-carrier, which makes them drop it (and then a literal dogpile to see who can pick it up first!).

The more serious idea:

Pirate Radio

This is a combination of capture the flag and king of the hill. Each side has a record collection. One player at a time from each team may get a record from the collection, and try to get into the radio station to play it. The record carrier (or DJ) cannot use any weapons - his hands are occupied with the record. If he takes fire, the record accumulates damage - too much and it breaks, and it's back to the base to get another. (even more fun of course is that while your team is trying to protect you and get your record to the station, the other team(s) are doing the same. Or maybe just camping out by the station with rockets....)

Once in the station, you get points for every second your record is playing. Meanwhile, you and your teammates are trying to keep the other side from breaking in (or just firing enough rockets/grenades in to break the record.)

On could even extend the game to allow for RIAA - they get points any time the radio station ISN'T in the hands of the pirates.

It would be truly heinious if you could have each team choose their music (as MP3 or OGG files) and then actually have that play duing the game - imagine a bunch of Country&Western types squaring off against some emo fans....

If I had the time to learn game mod programming (as opposed to signal processing) and then to create these mods I would, but since I don't, I offer them up here for anybody who would create them. Just make sure you make the mod run under Linux.