first post in ages, and probably the first for an actual mod as opposed to one I just made up. Moddb.com is a goldmine of failed mod projects, with several bizarre and ambitious entries buried deep inside. I found this one while searching for Far Cry vehicle mods!

Farm Cry is a mod under devolpment by Toxicdream Studios.

* Gameplay is based around running a farm and competing against others online.
* Farm Cry will be round based, each round lasting a maximum of about 30 mins.
* At the start of each round every team will start with a small farm, single tractor and tools.
* More tractors, tools, crops, trailers and silo space can be brought from a shop.
* The aim of the game is to make more money than your opponents.
* Currently no single-player is planned but it is a possibility

The project is being run by ‘Butterman’ and ‘Oggy’ – aka the toxic team – and they are looking for “A scripter, Coder, and animator”

Gameplay – in depth
Each map will include atleast 2 farms (one for each team).

They will both contain a shed full of tools for planting seeds, harvesting crop and whatever else we think of. At the start of the game a shed will only contain 1 of each kind of tool ( more can be brought). Teams will start with a single tractor and a plow/seeder and possbily a harvester.

Every 5mins (aprrox) all teams harvested crop will be sold at its market price (market will be affected by how much of each crop teams are selling). Diffrent crops will grow at different rates but also will have diffrent yields.

Strategy will have a large impact on the teams successes, numbers will not be important aslong as a team keeps communication (get those mics out! :P )

At the moment we are not fully decieded on the buying system, wheather we have a single team leader or the whole team voteing on what to buy next. So please share your ideas on what we should do!

Oggy is an amazing mapper and Crytek is an amazing engine so look forward to some eye-candy.

The Story Of Farm Cry

Farm Cry started as Fun mod v2. The main aim was just to mess around with tractors on a farm. I had known Oggy from a previous mod and towards the start of March he asked for my help, at the time i wasnt sure about using Crytek for what he wanted. Oggy pointed me in the direction of Irrilichit and for 2 or 3 weeks i was working on that. Oggy came to me and said he was having serious problems mapping with Quark.

Then we had a think about other standalone engines and decieded that Far Cry was probably the way foward. So Oggy got to work making our site and forums. I started looking at endless screens of lua code, my doubts of Lua quickly vanished. After about a week of studing Crytek i slipped playing a game of football (soccer) and broke my left wrist in two places (im left handed).

Im only now recovering and i can just about type a page without problems.

Sadly, the last update was back in october 2006

We now have 3 vechiles working in game. 2 which do need a better texture, but at the moment our skinner is busy with the splash screen, so they are on the to do list.

Priorities…

We also have more than 2 new objects in the game.
These include:
1 shotgun
Gates
Fences
Bridges
Telephone box
Deck chair…
Bench
1 House
And more.

That certainly was more than 2!

In fairness, it looks like it would have been fun. It certainly would have been unique – a sort of multiplayer Harvest Moon but with tractor racing. There’s a link to a website, www.toxicdream.co.uk, but it turns out this is (now) a paintball site.

Damn Shame.

Farm Cry – R.I.P