Rubric: MyFirstMod

Date: Sat, 18 May 2024

Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access
Developer: W@ Games
Release Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016

My acquaintance with the game in 2011.

Hello everyone. I'm one of those players who likes to change games for themselves, to add something of their own.
In 2011, I looked through a list of indie games with the "shoot'em up" tag and came across GraveRun.

After a quick content check, I found out that everything in this game is stored in simple text files with few code lines, which I can change or add something new. I didn't find the AK-47 so decided to make it myself - I copied files of M-16 and changed damage, rate of fire, other gun values, also sound files and few other things. I found a suitable image for the HUD in the Internet, then I drew a pixel sprite of the weapon in character's hands. Done! I was very proud of my work because it was my first experience of creating mods in games. And I was only 15 years old.
I decided to contact the developer and found his blog in LiveJournal. After a while, my mod was finalized and added to the game, to which I was very pleased.
Later, I added another weapon - a Gauss rifle. I even remember as we argued, whether it should have recoil and what laws of physics apply to it.

After a while, I decided to help the developer with English translation of game content and update posts, which I still do.
I hope this helps the project to become more popular and gain a large enough player base to appear in the list of Steam recommendations. Or maybe someone else will join the ranks of developers 🙂

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