![]() When Jagex took over, they had already been slowly decreasing the input Ben could have on the game. A full changelog in its attachments includes things like new weapons, and tampering things based on the community’s response. A version that wasn’t so heavily changed, but added things like helicopters, RPGs, and more! This is referred to as the Ace of Spades OpenGL Build, but it’s pretty obscure due now due to similarly named fan projects. So what is the ‘Unseen64’ part of this? Well, before Jagex took over development, Ben and Mat had been working on 1.0 to their own liking. Jagex didn’t take the time to learn the nuances of the community, and simply brushed them off, eventually announcing that they would be removing a majority of the game’s customization, including map making, modding, scripting, and private servers. ![]() An archive of the forums was created by fans as a result of this. This led to a huge flamewar on the forums, as Jagex threatened to wipe everything (no archive at all). Jagex appointed their own community managers to replace the ones chosen from the actual community. Their disregard of the community goes further, however. It hit 2 million downloads during it’s beta run, and won game of the month on MPOGD. Many of the forums were community-run, and since pretty much every single visual in the game could be easily modified there was also a huge modding scene. 75~) Ace of Spades slowly grew a community throughout it’s years, and it’s creator Ben Aksoy maintained a great relationship with his audience. What separated Ace of Spades from your the more generic, ‘Minecraft-with-guns’ type shtick is that not only did Ace of Spades pre-date a good number of them, it’s mechanics led to genuinely tense trench warfare (I’d recommend watching early beta footage circa. While earlier revisions of the game only had one weapon, some tools for construction, and randomly generated terrain it’s later versions had things such as different primary weapons (SMG, Rifle, and Shotgun), custom maps, and more. Advertised as ‘ Minecraft meets Team Fortress 2‘, it was free to play, and took very little requirements to run (spawning the slogan ‘runs on your grandma’s rig!’). Ace of Spades was a voxel-based FPS first released in 2011.
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