Week1 Play Journal

On the chilling Friday afternoon of this week, Rachel, Camdon, and I played Garry’s mod for the virtual tour project.

Garry’s mod is a 2006 physical sandbox developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve

We’ve never played Garry’s mod before, so we were pretty excited about it. However, this game is too overwhelming that we got lost once we opened the game. We started by navigating some servers with the hope that it will help us understand the game. (Garry’s mod has a super active player community, we even found an among us server on it) After getting a bit of what this game is about, we decided to create our own game.

We chose a Hide’N Seek game mode in the steam workshop. The Hide’N Seek mode allows players to become a game object in the sandbox, and the hunters need to find the players among all the game objects. However, we didn’t know how to apply game mode to the sandbox initially, so we just went for our own hiding and seek version. We just hide our characters using the sandbox’s terrain.

We had a lot of fun. I still cannot forget the moment when Camdon use a Rocket Launcher blew me away after he found me. (Such a nightmare)

Later we found out how to use the Hide’N Seek mode, but I think it is not that fun afterward. It is too hard for hunters to find hiders, especially when we only have three people on such a large map. So we started to tell the hunter where we were to make the experience enjoyable again.