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Garry has posted some information about the upcoming Garry's Mod 8.4. Garry's Mod is a modification for Half-Life 2 and CS: Source that lets users screw around with the Source engine's awesome physics system, among other things.
8.4 introduces LUA scripting. What this means is that people can make their own game modes and addon scripts that wouldn't be possible with just mapping. Things like as adding your own console commands, round timers, respawning players, setting player speed, spawning entities dynamically.[break="more info"]
In the current beta I have a simple example map. The game is normal until you play this one map, which then runs a LUA script that overrides a lot of the normal function. Then the game becomes running man. One player is Breen, he can run at twice the normal speed and has 1000 health, the others are Mossman. Breen has to see how many Mossman's he can kill before they kill him. The Mossman that kills Breen becomes the runner. Simple.Lua scripting is actually somewhat common in the gaming industry. Because Lua scripts require no compilation, one big bonus is that you can edit the script and immediately see your changes the next time you launch the game. Far Cry is an example of a big-name title that used Lua extensively.
During the beta some of the testers have made new game modes. A predator style game similar to The Hidden, a simple tag game, a freeze tag game and some kind of crazy bullet chasing game.
The game that stood out the most for me was Barrel Mania:
Everyone is a barrel in a world of barrels. In the final version everyone has crowbars only. When you're standing still you can't tell players from barrels. So you have to be careful before attacking a barrel, or it might blow your face off. It's a fun game!
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