The third theme explores further into the modding community by examining the motivations to becoming a member of the community as well as assessing what skills they learn in the process. The second theme focuses on the various modding platforms which are available online that play a significant role in the gaming industry in addition to the modding community as a means of sharing their work. It includes a brief history and background into the world of game modifications. The first section features a discussion of what constitutes a game modification. The finished product ended up being one of the first games aproved for Steam via the Greenlight feature, and it has since won numerous awards/titles.The aim of this paper is to discuss the different aspects of game modifications, specifically the active modding community that revolves around the gaming industry.
They continued kicking around ideas with the idea that if the game was fun for them to make, it would be fun for someone to play. The result was the original Stanley Parable mod for Half-Life 2, found here: Įventually, a Saxxy-winning modder named William Pugh saw The Stanley Parable mod and contacted Davey with a bunch of ideas and mockups.
He was interested in narrators, and came upon the question: what if you could disobey the narrator of a game? Davey didn’t know what would happen - what COULD happen, so he decided to try to make a game to find out. He had been musing about unexplored areas of game design, having recently realized how innovative games could be. That being said, here’s how The Stanley Parable got made: Davey was a student at USC, which is one of the top schools for game creation/design. Thus it’s hard to talk about how he got a start making games – there was really only one game that propelled him out of obscurity and into the spotlight. It’s hard to find much information about his life pre-Parable, since as far as I can tell it was his first real game project. Davey Wreden is best known as the creator of The Stanley Parable (and later The Beginner’s Guide), both of which we all should have played by now.
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