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Game data
- Released
- 2004-12-24
- User rating
- 3.81 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Casual, Simulation, Indie
- Platforms
- PC, macOS, Linux
- ESRB
- Rating Pending
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
Garry's Mod is a physics-based sandbox game built on Valve's Source engine. In its base mode, there are no objectives. Players can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, then manipulate them using a physics gun that can pick up, rotate, and freeze objects in place. A tool gun provides additional functionality such as welding objects together or adjusting facial expressions on ragdolls. The game supports extensive Lua-based modding, and community-created game modes like Trouble in Terrorist Town and Prop Hunt have become widely popular in their own right. Originally released as a …
- Released
- 2004
- Genres
- Simulator, Indie
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Engine
- Source
- Developer
- Facepunch Studios
- Publisher
- Valve
Key facts
- Developer
- Facepunch Studios
- Publisher
- Valve
- Designer
- Garry Newman
- Programmer
- Garry Newman
- Engine
- Source
- Platforms
- Windows Mac OS X Linux
- Release
- Windows 29 November 2006 Mac OS X 23 September 2010 Linux 5 June 2013
- Genre
- Sandbox
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Garry's Mod — The physics sandbox game
gmod.facepunch.com →Link to the official site · 2,517 chars · not written by Vinony
Source code
This repo consists of all Lua, text, and config extensions for Garry's Mod. Binary sources are not public, but are derived from the Source SDK. You can test changes for the next update on the Garry's Mod Dev Branch through Steam. Also try to condense multiple commits down to easily see the changes made, either through resetting the head or rebasing the branch.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,523 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
Garry's Mod, commonly clipped as GMod, is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of Garry's Mod has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects. Other game modes, notably Trouble in Terrorist Town and Prop Hunt, are created by other developers as mods and are installed separately, by means such as the Steam Workshop. Garry's Mod was created by Garry Newman as a mod for Valve's Source game engine and released in December 2004, before being expanded into a standalone release that was published by Valve in November 2006. Ports of the original Windows version for Mac OS X and Linux followed in September 2010 and June 2013, respectively. As of September 2021, Garry's Mod has sold more than 20 million copies. A spiritual successor, S&box, was released in 2026.
Gameplay
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garry's Mod” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.