{"id":13743,"date":"2024-06-18T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:44:47","slug":"20-years-of-padmod-world-of-padman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/news\/20-years-of-padmod-world-of-padman\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years of PadMod: World of PADMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but 20 years ago today World of PADMAN was born as a modification for Quake 3 Arena, Happy Birthday! After two and a half years of hard development work, the first beta version was released on June 18th, 2004. It contained 11 maps, six player models with a total of 14 different skins, nine weapons, seven power-ups and the game modes Spray Your Color, Big Balloon and Last Pad Standing. World of PADMAN was subsequently voted <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050406204800\/http:\/\/www.planetquake.com\/quake3\/features\/motw\/wop.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mod of the Week<\/a> on planetquake.com and was published in international PC games magazines, sometimes with accompanying articles, as well as on DVD.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-row wc-shortcodes-item wc-shortcodes-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-column wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-one-half wc-shortcodes-column-first \">\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-posts-wrapper\"><div id=\"wc-shortcodes-posts-2\" data-gutter-space=\"20\" data-columns=\"1\" class=\"wc-shortcodes-posts wc-shortcodes-clearfix wc-shortcodes-posts-col-1 wc-shortcodes-posts-layout-single-column wc-shortcodes-posts-template-box wc-shortcodes-posts-gutter-space-20 wc-shortcodes-posts-no-masonry\"><div id=\"post-9552\" class=\"wc-shortcodes-post-box post-9552 page type-page status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry\">\n\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-post-border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-entry-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/xtras\/wop-story\/2002-2005-the-padmod\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wopstory_padmodtitle-676x380.jpg\" class=\"attachment-mh-joystick-large size-mh-joystick-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"The real PadMod\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wopstory_padmodtitle-676x380.jpg 676w, https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wopstory_padmodtitle-326x183.jpg 326w, https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wopstory_padmodtitle-728x409.jpg 728w, https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wopstory_padmodtitle-139x78.jpg 139w, https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wopstory_padmodtitle.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-post-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-entry-header\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"wc-shortcodes-entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/xtras\/wop-story\/2002-2005-the-padmod\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">2002-2005: The PadMod<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-entry-summary\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>From the PadMaps to the PadMod On January 1st, 2002, ENTE started the development of&hellip;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-summary -->\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-footer-entry-meta wc-shortcodes-clearfix\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-entry-meta-inner wc-shortcodes-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><!-- .wc-shortcodes-footer-entry-meta -->\n\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .wc-shortcodes-post-content -->\n\t<\/div><!-- .wc-shortcodes-post-border -->\n<\/div><!-- #post -->\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wc-shortcodes-column wc-shortcodes-content wc-shortcodes-one-half wc-shortcodes-column-last \">\n<p>The development team was already facing big challenges at that time, and it is only thanks to ENTE and a hard core that the development did not die like other mod projects at that time. Without this commitment and passion, World of PADMAN would not exist as an independent game today. You can now read the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/xtras\/wop-story\/2002-2005-the-padmod\/\">story about the development of the PadMod<\/a> in detail in our section <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/xtras\/wop-story\/\">The WoP Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to experience the PadMod again and play it together, you are welcome to do so on Hectic&#8217;s server &#8220;PadMod | 20th Anniversary&#8221;. Instructions on how to get the PadMod running on modern systems can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/news\/2024-will-be-a-wop-year\/\">here<\/a>. There you will also find a small patch that should make your life easier. 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