Windows Installer for Xconq

Brandon J. Van Every vanevery@indiegamedesign.com
Tue Nov 4 21:36:00 GMT 2003


> >Try "Modder."  That's standard industry terminology for tweaking game
> >files to effect rule changes.
>
> True. But game design in xconq is something more than
> modding. It's not
> just like writing Civ scenarios. There is much more
> flexibility because of
> GDL. You are not tweaking a game but rather writing one of
> your own. So I
> think the term design is appropriate.

In standard industry terminonology, Modding encompasses writing game
scripts with game specific languages.  For instance, writing a bot in
Quake C.  If that's all you're doing, if you're not modifying source
code, then Modding is the canonically correct industry standard term.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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