“Modding has always been a very important part of PC gaming, but there’s a reason why it has failed to reach mainstream gamers – it’s rarely a simple process,” said Skylar Kreisher, CEO of Olympus Games.
Yet from my experience that’s about the limits of the “friendlier” side of installing mods and managing them. Then there are sites such as Nexus, which offers mods for everything from The Witcher to Dragons Age via its site and its Nexus Mod Manager software. Of course there are already platforms like this, but there none of them are truely unified, Skyrim is a key example and that uses the popular Steamworks system to create mods, as do games like TF2 and Torchlight 2. Leveraging this simple and flexible interface, the GMOD team aims to open up the world of modding to mainstream gamers everywhere. GMO is set to be built on powerful new technology, which can streamline the modding experience for hardcore and casual PC gamers, delivering an intuitive platform where mods “just work”. Olympus Games announced today the launch of their new Kickstarter campaign, which will help them fund the development of its upcoming mod management platform, GMOD.
