Blog Post 2

Blog Post 2

Julio Liu

http://gamingbolt.com/15-modders-who-changed-pc-gaming

                Video game mods are one of main reasons why many video games have grown. Many games began as a mod such as Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, Defense of the Ancients (DotA) and Garry's Mod. Without of these important games, we will not have unique ideas to make other games from its precursor.

                Team Fortress 2 came from a long way of development. The original Team Fortress 1 started as a Quake mod which evolves to a Gold Source Mod. When Valve hired the mod team, they announced Team Fortress 2 in 1998, a sequel to their game. The development for the game took more than 9 years until it was finally released. Team Fortress 2 became one of the game one of the biggest games to date. The game is still updated till this day with big patches coming every few months. A story is ongoing as well and the community is still big. Team Fortress 1 was a huge factor to the game industry. Not only it spawned Team Fortress 2, it was one of the killer apps that bought many users to the steam platform.

                Counter Strike is the most popular mod that is still being played to this date. It is recognized as one of the greatest mods in all time. Counter Strike boomed with its competitive gameplay and fast pace action. Counter Strike started as a tactical first person shooter then which to fast pace gameplay. The game was one of the huge reasons Valve is huge right now. It created huge sales to Half Life because it was the game which used to make Counter Strike. The game spawned Competitive Competitions around the world especially in Sweden where they host the biggest LAN festival for Counter Strike, Dreamhack.

                DotA also known as Defense of the Ancients is most famous and important Multiplayer Online Battle Area (MOBA) ever. Without this game, many other games wouldn't have followed up such as League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth and DotA 2. DotA spawned a competitive scene as well. It hosted tournaments around the world, even a Blizzard sponsored tournament because the game was made in the Warcraft 3 engine. IceFrog, current designer of DotA has been hired by Valve to which he made DotA 2. Both games are right now are run by IceFrog. Guinsoo and Pendragon, former designers and community of DotA were hired by Riot Games. Riot Games made League of Legends, the most played PC game in the world.

                Garry's Mod was a small and free game in the beginning. Word of mouth spread about the game increasing its popularity. Garry's Mod defined the game as a sandbox build upon game where the player of the game can do anything they want with the models used in the game. The game spawned Minecraft, the most popular sandbox survival game to date. Minecraft sold more than 20 million copies in both Xbox360 and PC.

                PC mods are very important in the game industry. These mods continue to help develop many games we have today with fresh ideas.