Prague, Czech Republic, March 30th 2007

UFO: Afterlight lets you take on the inhabitants of Mars in a perfect blend between strategy and tactics. You explore the surface, build mines, research technologies and develop equipment in the strategic view. You recover artifacts, capture enemies, blow up installations and neutralize the opposition in the tactical view. The two parts are closely knit together, and making a bad decision in one can be fatal to the other.

But what if you could do even more? What if a gamer out there has a brilliant idea to expand the game even further? That's what the "UFO: Afterlight modding contest" is all about! ALTAR Games wants you to modify their game to your heart's content! Feel like changing the sound or music? Don't be shy! Feel like changing the balance of the factions? Bring it on! Feel free to add or change anything you can manage, and get a nice prize if your contribution is amongst the top three!

First Prize

• Your work will be hosted at the official UFO: Afterlight site as well as StrategyCore.co.uk
• UFO: Afterlight signed by the developers at ALTAR Games
• UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Aftermath, the prequels to UFO: Afterlight
• Poster, t-shirt, plastic figure and other props from UFO: Afterlight
• El Matador game, together with t-shirt, sunglasses and notepad
• Free download of all 12 games at Sprocket (Armed Assault, Shade: Wrath of Angels etc.)

Second Prize

• Your work will be hosted at the official UFO: Afterlight site as well as StrategyCore.co.uk
• UFO: Afterlight signed by the developers at ALTAR Games
• Poster, t-shirt, plastic figure and other props from UFO: Afterlight
• UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Aftermath, the prequels to UFO: Afterlight
• El Matador game
• Free download of 5 games of your choice from Sprocket

Third Prize

• Your work will be hosted at the official UFO: Afterlight site as well as StrategyCore.co.uk
• UFO: Afterlight signed by the developers at ALTAR Games
• UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Aftermath, the prequels to UFO: Afterlight
• Poster, t-shirt, plastic figure and other props from UFO: Afterlight
• Free download of UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Aftermath, the prequels to UFO: Afterlight, as well as a game of choice at Sprocket
• Korea: Forgotten Conflict

Anyone can modify UFO: Afterlight, and long time UFO: After modder ShadoWarrior has a nice guide up at the official ALTAR forums. Take 20 minutes to read through it, and you're good to go. As a basic you can change the strength of weapons, armors and items to your liking. Combine that with new models, sound, music and weapons and you'll have a full fledged total conversion. You can find a list of released modifications so far at the official ALTAR forums.

The contest has been postponed. Read the original press release here and the updated information here.

Submit your contribution by June 17th 2007 to: contest@strategycore.co.uk

Contest rules

Your contribution must:

1. Modify or expand the game in some way.
2. Include a readme file with information.
3. Have all it's files archived in a zip file.

Please contact us to make special arrangements to deliver huge files.
You also agree that contributions can be used by as we see fit.

Inspiration - Total Rebalance Modification

ShadoWarrior and his dedicated team of modders is hard at work rebalancing UFO: Afterlight. They have made tremendous progress in the short time since the game was released, and with around 70 new items and hundreds of tweaks you're in for a treat!


You can read more about it and find download mirrors in the Total Rebalance forum.