GCO: Ground Combat Overhaul

Empire at War is a Star Wars real-time strategy game featuring galactic, space, and land game modes across its campaign and skirmish battles. As the last true Star Wars game of the genre, it remains very popular and an expansive modding community has existed since its launch in 2006. 

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Skirmish Ground Combat Overhaul is my own mod designed to showcase entirely new ways to play Empire at War. The campaign and space modes had already been well-covered by other mods, however land has generally been disregarded and considered the least fun. I overhauled how land battles are fought by redesigning units, abilities, mechanics and balancing. Before I released, some other mods began to implement similar features, so I focused in on the skirmish side, designing a framework to allow unique modes with different gameplay and objectives, such as accumulating victory points. By creatively reapplying existing systems, I was able to implement a base-building feature, inspired by other RTS games like Age of Empires.

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While on a much smaller scale than other mods made by full teams, it has over 2500 current subscribers and garnered me an invitation to Empire at War: Remake, one of the larger teams, to integrate my ideas there.