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Blog 870: Experiments in Modding UT

Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023 Rao Dao Zao

Yep, I’m doing it — I’m modding Unreal Tournament. Since the beginning of my festive holiday, I’ve been having a quiet go at implementing that singleplayer roguelikelike monster-hunting adventure I described when lambasting UT2004‘s Invasion game mode.

Yep, Robbie’s idea of “taking a break” from working on his own game is to… mod somebody else’s game. Twenty years too late. Right after it’s been delisted from all online stores and become hard-to-access abandonware.

(Yep, I’m still single.)

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Blog 866: UT Isn’t Just For Christmas

Dec 28, 2022 Rao Dao Zao

According to my calculations, Santa brought me a copy of Unreal Tournament (GOTYE) at the end of 2002. It was something of a surprise; up until then, there had been a touch of the “no ultra-violence” about my access to games, and yet there we were, with my parents spontaneously introducing me to one of the most violent games available at the time. (It is a strong possibility that they had no idea what they were actually buying.)

I might play UT2004 every December to mark the festive season, but the big day itself belongs to the original and best.

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Blog 374: Three Wise Tournaments

Dec 18, 2009Jan 10, 2010 Rao Dao Zao

Theoretically, this is a festive blog — because it was many crimbos ago that I found the delightful Unreal Tournament waiting for me under the tree.

This is funny because that was way back when my parents were all “can’t let that Robbie have those violent shooter games, he’ll grow up to be a very nasty man” — and then they got me one of the bastions of computerised brutality. Also fun to note that I’m a lot less angry now than I ever was, after years of fragging bots. Coincidence?

Spurred on by my returning mouse control skills, I’ve been playing all three installments’ singleplayer campaigns. This is a little unusual; I’d usually spend large spurts on a single title (both on the campaign and randomised Deathmatches) rather than quick-fire slamming through them all.

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