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My son used to love CP, played off and on until I introduced him to Garry's Mod.

by mgcross 10y ago

Angostura 10y ago
What does your son do with GM? Seriously interested.
- nerflad 10y ago
  In my experience kids love Garry's Mod if they have the patience to learn it. My brother played the heck out of it when he was 13. (To answer your question, he was playing custom game modes and would sometimes use the character poser/scene creation tools). It's great for technically inclined kids who love sandboxes and are bored with Minecraft.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  If he was anything like me, mess about, and occaisionally build something simple.
- mgcross 10y ago
  He's been playing for 5 years now, so he's a mod on a few servers. He started out building simple things, then progressed to wiremod within a couple of weeks. It wasn't long before I couldn't keep up with him when I tried to check out what he was building. He used to build cars/vehicles (mostly from scratch, not using car models) and add them to the workshop, think he has a couple dozen in there. Now he mostly camps on servers and chats with friends (online friends), warns and kicks players when he gets reports, that sort of thing.
rocky1138 10y ago
How do you handle the dreadful behaviour of people on GM multiplayer? I'm 33, so it doesn't affect me at all (Counter Strike veteran here) but I showed my 8-year-old nephew and was like ... uhh maybe we'll play a different game, then.
- mgcross 10y ago
  Well, funny thing... I really didn't play it much online, so I didn't even realize he was playing on servers for a while. He was 10ish when he started (15 now). When I started looking over his shoulder, I was shocked at some of the other players behavior! I once intervened and took control of the keyboard to scold another player who kept holding him up and taking his cars, money, etc. Turns out it was a role playing server... the other player was his friend, playing a criminal. I kind of left him alone after that!
jonahrd 10y ago
IMO a great game. Learned to code by making mods for it.

My son used to love CP, played off and on until I introduced him to Garry's Mod.

by mgcross 10y ago

My son used to love CP, played off and on until I introduced him to Garry's Mod.

Angostura 10y ago

What does your son do with GM? Seriously interested.

nerflad 10y ago
In my experience kids love Garry's Mod if they have the patience to learn it. My brother played the heck out of it when he was 13. (To answer your question, he was playing custom game modes and would sometimes use the character poser/scene creation tools). It's great for technically inclined kids who love sandboxes and are bored with Minecraft.
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
If he was anything like me, mess about, and occaisionally build something simple.
mgcross 10y ago
He's been playing for 5 years now, so he's a mod on a few servers. He started out building simple things, then progressed to wiremod within a couple of weeks. It wasn't long before I couldn't keep up with him when I tried to check out what he was building. He used to build cars/vehicles (mostly from scratch, not using car models) and add them to the workshop, think he has a couple dozen in there. Now he mostly camps on servers and chats with friends (online friends), warns and kicks players when he gets reports, that sort of thing.

rocky1138 10y ago

How do you handle the dreadful behaviour of people on GM multiplayer? I'm 33, so it doesn't affect me at all (Counter Strike veteran here) but I showed my 8-year-old nephew and was like ... uhh maybe we'll play a different game, then.

mgcross 10y ago
Well, funny thing... I really didn't play it much online, so I didn't even realize he was playing on servers for a while. He was 10ish when he started (15 now). When I started looking over his shoulder, I was shocked at some of the other players behavior! I once intervened and took control of the keyboard to scold another player who kept holding him up and taking his cars, money, etc. Turns out it was a role playing server... the other player was his friend, playing a criminal. I kind of left him alone after that!

jonahrd 10y ago

IMO a great game. Learned to code by making mods for it.