GameMonkey ScriptMod

Overview

GameMonkey Scriptmod is a project where we implemented the scripting language GameMonkey into a Quake3 Multimod plugin.

Quake3 Multimod is a plugin manager which sits between the Quake3 engine and the actual game mod. This allows plugin developers to hook any behavior into roughly any Quake3-based game without having to modify the mod.

GameMonkey is an embedded scripting language that looks similar to C, making it easy to work with for programmers and others.

Motivation

We started the project because we wanted more control over server behavior. We already had a PHP bot tailing the server logs, but this was slow and grew complicated quickly.

Features

GameMonkey Scriptmod featured:

• ✅ 100% scriptable admin interface
• ✅ Scriptable Rcon-like interface
• ✅ Interface for clan members (besides ref login)
• ✅ Interface for clan friends (besides ref login)
• ✅ Access to filesystem through .gm script functions
• ✅ Works with ALL Enemy Territory mods (etmain, etpro, etbub, shrubmod, tce, etc.)
• ✅ Easy to modify — no C/C++ knowledge necessary
• ✅ Change server behavior without restart — modify script files live
• ✅ Simple syntax — not as complicated as LUA
• ✅ Many script examples included
• ✅ Fast — GameMonkey is one of the fastest scripting languages
• ✅ Define custom commands — e.g., /ban ID, /kick ID, drop ID
• ✅ Create individualized game server mods
• ✅ Exchange scripts with other server admins
• ✅ Client-to-client private chat
• ✅ IRC-like channel chat

Team

I developed this project with another developer: Apologet. Apologet started the project and later involved me. Later we got help from im2good4u and Dr.Evil.