Everything about Modding
Customization of a product by the end user
Modding is the act of modifying hardware, software, or anything else to perform a function not originally intended by the designer, or to achieve bespoke specification or appearance. The term is often used in reference to video game modding, particularly in regard to creating new or altered content and sharing that via the web. It may be applied to the overclocking of computers in order to increase the frequency at which the CPU operates. Case modding is a popular activity amongst many computer enthusiasts which involves the customization of a computer case or the installation of water cooling technology. In connection with automobiles, modding can connote engine tuning, remapping of a vehicle's engine control unit or customization of the coachwork. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ModdingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Formal Approach to Distinguish Games, Toys, Serious Games and Toys, Serious Repurposing and Modding, and SimulatorsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Folk Devils and Moral Panics the Creation of the Mods and RockersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: When the Game Is Not Enough: Motivations and Practices Among Computer Game Modding CultureCited 122 times
- Go sideways: Case moddingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Video game moddingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of mod
Noun The act or result of informally modifying something, such as a vehicle or a video game.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
When the Game Is Not Enough: Motivations and Practices Among Computer Game Modding Culture
Learning through game modding
Computer game mods, modders, modding, and the mod scene
Modding to the big leagues: Exploring the space between modders and the game industry
Topological Characterization of Reconstructed Attractors Modding Out Symmetries
Serious board games: modding existing games for collaborative ideation processes
Becoming an ideal co-creator: Web materiality and intensive laboring practices in game modding
Digital games in laboratory experiments: Controlling a complex stimulus through modding.
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Formal Approach to Distinguish Games, Toys, Serious Games and Toys, Serious Repurposing and Modding, and Simulators
Integrating Computational Thinking and Data Science: The Case of Modding Classification Games
The ethical dilemma of modding digital games: A literature review of the creation and distribution of mods
Constructing a Community of Play: Black Sims Players and Game Modding
Game Modding for Learning Design Thinking on an E-Learning Platform
📚 Books worth reading
Folk Devils and Moral Panics the Creation of the Mods and RockersStanley Cohen, Stanley Cohen · 1972
The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern EnglandAndy Wood, ANDY WOOD · 2007
ModRichard Weight · 2013- 📕A grammar of Pite SaamiJoshua Wilbur · 2014
The soul stylistsPaolo Hewitt · 2000
Friday on my mindDon Hughes · 2010
Paul Flemings Lateinische GedichtePaul Fleming · 1863
Quadrophenia and Mod CulturePamela Thurschwell · 2017
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