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The Oblivion Bookbinding Mod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the labour-of-love dept.

Via GameSetWatch, an article on the Guilded Lilies site interviewing a unique Oblivion modder. Phoenix Amon has taken on the task of rebinding every book in Oblivion, as well as spell-checking the documents within. From the article: "Q: How much time do you spend modding, and do you enjoy it more than playing games? A: I spend more time modding than playing recently, but I enjoy both a lot. I wouldn't have bought Oblivion if it hadn't been moddable, but that's because I knew from experience that I don't like a lot of Bethesda's game design choices. It's not a deciding factor for all games."

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  1. Re:Wow... by TouchOfRed · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you actually read the article before posting you would know that its a woman doing the mod. That being said, I think the article focussed a little to much on that aspect. OMFGBBQ FEMALE MODDERS!

  2. Re:Wow... by cinnamoninja · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps he will next go in and create new patterns and quilting for all of the bedding in the game. :::yikes::: Glad I'm not stuck next to him during a long flight.

    She, actually.

    And she's really quite cool about it. She didn't think she had the talent to come up with some huge level quest mod, so she picked a small thing that bugged her and is going to fix it. Here are pictures of the books so far.

    Also, she's got a couple guys to help her incorporate grammer and spelling fixes for the books. If only the original designers would put so much thought into the little details...

  3. Re:One of the best morrowind mods was like this by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 2, Informative
    This however does raise a question, what could be done with a game that is fully open and modders do not have to spend the first few months trying to decipher cryptic files?


    Capture The Flag.
    Team Fortress
    Rocket Arena

    To name a few of the more notable things that happened. Yes, like usual I'm refering to quake, which embraced and really founded the modding revolution you hint about. Really, its not even that uncommon in major FPS titles now, not sure why the other genres havn't caught up.
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    Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
  4. Re:One of the best morrowind mods was like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Actually, the untelligible sings in the "mystic" language are pretty easy to read, if you know how.

    The "ancient language" is plain english written in another font. Basically it's like trying to read english in the wingding font.

    If you want to really be "immersed" find a way to translate all the chars from the game without refering somewhere else. In Morrowind it was quite easy. I first notice that the included map use one of the symbol on a compas. I tried to see if I was right.... Looking at the map, I saw some "ancient text" that could fit the world "Province of Morrowind", and of course, the n's had the same symbols. From all the new symbols, I found other incomplete word, which where obvious. From there I mapped the rest of the alphabet. Took me one evening but it make me "play" archeologist for a while, and was quite fun. :P

    Sometimes, stuff like that makes many *happy campers*

  5. Re:Wow... by Durinthal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe he can give all of the ale bottles unique, detailed bap designs?

    Well, some other people have already gotten close to that.