Arron Burgess' Portfolio

OldUnreal

Launched around year 2000, the OldUnreal community and website founded by Jochen 'Smirftsch' Goerntz was a focused group around the first Unreal game from 1998 and hosts some classic downloads for mods, maps and other Unreal adjacent content. Around 2006, Smirftsch managed to sign an NDA with Epic Games in order to be able to make new community updates for the first Unreal, expanding modding and mapping features and adding new formats for 3d, 2d and audio files. As per a few years ago of writing this, OldUnreal has now expanded it's supported game updates to Unreal Tournament and more recently UT2004, which the full games are published for download through the website as per direct permission from Epic, meaning that Unreal (Gold), Unreal Tournament (99) and Unreal Tournament 2004 are no longer delisted.

ModDB

ModDB aka the 'Mod Database' was founded in 2002 and features a huge repository of downloadable mods that span over 2 decades. The website costs nothing to use and users are free to announce, publish, share screenshots, videos and establish other sections relating to their mod pages.

Slipseer

Slipseer is a relatively new community repository for Quake orientated mods, mappacks and content.

UnrealSP

UnrealSP was launched in summer of 2001, founded by Hellscrag and dubbed 'The Premier Unreal Singleplayer Site' focusing on custom campaigns, singleplayer maps and mappacks in the context of Unreal's atmosphere, sublimity and style. UnrealSP features an online forum and discord in which patrons preview upcoming custom modding, mapping or custom content work, give thoughtful feedback or praise to others work and conduct discussion pertaining classic Unreal singleplayer work. The website itself also hosts extensive map and mappack reviews, modding and mapping guides, game walkthroughs, a beastiary and inventory encyclopedia and more.

Unreal Redux

Unreal Redux is a fan made project currently in development recreation of Unreal within the latest community update's engine by Krullor. Krullor is in the process of maticulously 'reduxing' each level in the game and some revised gameplay mechanics.

Unreal Gold with Unreal Editor 2.2

Unreal Editor is a CSG and BSP level creation tool that is supplied with the first game in the franchise, known simply as Unreal. The first two games, Unreal and Unreal Tournament were made freely available via OldUnreal due to express permission from Epic Games. Both games come included with their latest community updates, including UnrealEditor 2.2.

Blender

Blender is a free, versatile powerhouse of many trades and can be used for alot of things, but it's main purpose is for 3d modelling and animation. Blender can be obtained from it's foundation's website.

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Adobe Substance 3d Painter

Adobe Substance 3d Painter is now owned by Adobe, but I think perpetual licenses still exist for purchase on Steam!

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G.I.M.P (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation program and is a free equivilent to Photoshop. This program is good for loading and modifying different image formats.

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TrenchBroom

TrenchBroom is a popular editor in the idtech engine space and Quake community. There are a couple of forks available, including one for RBDoom3-BFG.

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Hammer Level Editor

Hammer is the level editor for Valve's Half-Life. It's also used for Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Half-Life: Alyx and a few more. If you obtain any of those games on Steam you will be able to acquire the tool for free through Steam!

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