Computer Gaming World
May 2005
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and a bathtub for a seat—looks
like someone's been playing
that old board game Mousetrap
a little too much. Actually, it's a ram-
shackle plane quickly built in Garry's Mod
that isn't flying quite right. Not a prob-
lem. Just whip out some in-game tools
and solder together the right parts till
BLOCKLAND
Concerned that li'l bro might try
restaging Caligula with the cast of
Half-Life 2? Free, fam-friendly down-
load Blockland (www.ageoftime.com/
lets
you build whatever you want with
Lego-like bricks.
48 WORLD
Garry Newman, the man behind the
mod (www.garry.tv/garrysmod). has cre-
ated a let-'em-build-it-and-they-will-
come masterpiece that turns Half-Life 2
in all of its Newtonian detail into
treatise or, cause and effect, gut instead
of requiring map-editing tools and tech-
nical savvy, Garry's Mod does it all in
game, No texture alignment or exploit-
proofing to fuss with. Equip-able,
weaponlike construction tools handle
everything One fires ropes for tethering
junk together and creating pulleys, a
second creates Wheels and shortcuts to
control them with, a third welds joints
and sets pivot points, and so on. "I-ike
Legos, tried to keep it as simple as
possible," Newman explains,
And his forums are filling with demo
videos. One member displays the
destructible Tower of Babel hc built
with wood pallets; another proudly
GModmaker Garry Newman passes off the few comic strips fans have made, saying, "Some are
really awful; actually, most are awful." Still, the potential is there.
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