Unmissable Mods Month: The Nameless Mod

The internet is a fabulous place.  Even filled with the most repugnant of the crazies, the scariest of the mad, and the most disturbing of the loonies, browsing our world wide web is somewhat akin to watching a car crash – it’s horrifying, and faintly traumatising, but you can’t help but stop and stare.

It’s also most definitely a place.  If you’re talking about Planet Deus Ex, the Deus Ex fansite that spawned The Nameless Mod, and its attached forum – affectionately named Forum City – then it’s in fact so much of a place, that it’s been entirely recreated, a long with all its twisted denizens.

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Mod Advice: Let The Experts Do The Talking

Since Orfeo’s been doing his ‘What Not To Do‘ series, I thought it might be an idea to counter it with the exact opposite: some tips on how to go about running a mod. However, I basically have no idea how to do that. The only mods I’ve ever run that haven’t been solo projects have basically collapsed. So my idea was pretty much broken from the start. But! I realised I know some people who have been successful in this area. So I decided to talk to a handful of them. I’m hoping to get more responses, but for now, here’s three expert modders telling you how they think you should go about creating one of your own.

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Interview: The Nameless Mod (Deus Ex)

With Off Topic Productions’ ever-persistent plugging-for-votes in this year’s ModDB Mod of the Year awards, I realised I’d never actually spoken to them about their exceptional Deus Ex project, The Nameless Mod.  First released ten months ago and reaching its final version in November, it’s a sprawling, dual-campaigned and completely mammoth piece of work that spawned from a piece of Internet fan fiction into a game that took seven years to complete.

Far from being just a huge mod, it’s also a highly intelligent one too.  It takes Deus Ex’s conspiracy soup and pours it into a big bowl of geek-culture, casting various real-life forum members as characters in the game world, who quip and bond and war like the members of just about every forum you might care to mention.

So, as the team begins its brave venture into the world of commercial game development, I caught up with producer Lawrence Laxdal and project director Jonas Wæver to talk about their work. Lots of words are below.

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Video for Victory: The Nameless Mod (Deus Ex)

Off-Topic Productions’ remarkable The Nameless Mod might have been out for a good while, but that isn’t stopping them from slamming their foots down on the promo accelerator.

They’re pushing for votes in ModDB’s annual Mod of the Year awards, is why. And, to be honest, they probably deserve some plaudits more than any other team in the past 12 months. Not that the others don’t work hard, but this is an amateur team using up seven years of their lives to create the most astonishingly detailed, intricate and lengthy Deus Ex mod, which, if you play through everything, might even take longer than the original game did to complete.

If you fancy giving them a vote, head on over to ModDB. You’ll need to be a member, but registration costs nothing. The Nameless Mod’s latest promo video is beneath the jump.

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