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This mod took the original Castle Wolfenstein\u00a0and replaced the Nazi sprites with that of Smurfs.<\/p>\nSo, what to talk about this week? There’s a whole bunch I could cover in this second part, so let’s just talk about modding as a whole, from the activity’s past to its present community. I’ve already covered one of the first popular mods to be passed around the community titled, “Castle Smurfenstien”. This mod took the original Castle Wolfenstein\u00a0and replaced the Nazi sprites with that of Smurfs.<\/p>\n
This comedic and lighthearted tone will carry on in modding throughout the ages. The process of swapping sprites and models will live on as well. For example, in Skyrim, there is a mod that swaps the Dragon models with Thomas the Tank Engine. Yes, you heard me. Watch<\/a> at your own risk. Once the immensely\u00a0popular\u00a0Doom came out, modding soon followed, replacing sprites with anything the user could dream up. The developers of Doom even gave a package of easily accessed\u00a0game files to the community in order\u00a0for them to be able to make their\u00a0own levels. Mod-friendly developers\u00a0have been a godsend to the community because\u00a0you’ll never really stop the modders, so might as well help them. You may ask why a developer would go out of their\u00a0way to allow their\u00a0fans to easily replace their\u00a0dragons with trains. Well, having a healthy modding community extends the lifetime of your game by spades. Heck, Fallout: New Vegas has been out for eight whole years and still has a large player base\u00a0thanks to its constant release of awesome mods. Actually, a team just released a huge mod for New Vegas called Fallout: New California<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2007, a website called Nexusmods<\/a>\u00a0went live right before\u00a0the release of Fallout 3. This site has since become the place that most modders go to upload and share their\u00a0mods for a variety of games. This site hosts\u00a0263,928 files for\u00a0619 games\u00a0from 85,195 authors and it’s open for anyone to join and download from. This place has gathered mods together for easiest access and reaches the largest player base as it can. The site has also released its own tool to make the downloading of mods much easier for the casual fans who may not know too much about files and folders. The Nexus Mod Manager allows for you to connect to your game and the site. A simple button press on the site will send the mod’s files right to your NMM and apply the files to your\u00a0game. Some mod installations are as simple as two clicks. I anticipate that the mod I will be working on will be just as simple as that. I honestly\u00a0can’t wait until I can share my finished\u00a0mod to the world on this site and finally enter the modding community as an author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, what to talk about this week? There’s a whole bunch I could cover in this second part, so let’s just talk about modding as a whole, from the activity’s past to its present community. I’ve already covered one of the first popular mods to be passed around the community titled, “Castle Smurfenstien”. This mod … Continue reading “Research Update #2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamuO2-62","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}