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Help > General FAQ
GameFlood is the place to find and publish the best new playable content for your favorite games. We are a bridge between gamers and developers. Gamers can find new mods, mashups, characters, weapons, and maps to bring something new and interesting to their favorite game titles. Developers work better with our powerful Workshop project collaboration system, enabling them to publish their content through GameFlood directly into the game. Both gamers and developers can get new content into their games with our GameFlood Download Manager, which downloads and installs everything without all the hassle. Just click play and you're in the game.
Have you ever tried installing a mod for your favorite PC game? The process of manually placing files in the required directory’s can be tedious and time consuming. We have streamlined this process, making it as easy as clicking ‘Play.’ GameFlood grabs the necessary files for your content and places them in the required folders. All you have to do is press Play, we handle it from there.
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When you click play on a mod or mashup, The GameFlood Download Manager will open and ask you if you would like to download the mod. Choose ‘Yes’ and The GameFlood Download Manager will download all of the files needed for you to play the mod. When The GameFlood Download Manager finishes downloading the files, you will be asked if you would like to launch your game. Choose yes, and the GameFlood Download Manager will launch your game for you.
That depends on many different things, one of them being your internet connection. A user with cable modem will obviously have shorter download times than a user with a dial up connection. It also depends on the size of the mod you have chosen to download. ‘Total Conversion’ mods will generally take longer to download than a mod which simply modifies script files. As a gauge, a mod that is around 300mb might take anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes to download.
That’s most likely because there aren't any servers hosting that mod. If you would like to view games that are currently in progress, select the Live and Scheduled Games tab on the Games page.
It’s easy; just schedule a game with your friends. To schedule a game with friends, simply select “Schedule a Game” from the Play drop down. Select which friends you would like to invite and enter a few words about the game you are scheduling. Then choose when the game will take place by selecting a Start and End Time. If you know the IP address of your server, you can enter it into the Host ID field. If you would like to allow additional GameFlood members to be able to view your invitation select the Invite Everyone / Make Open Server option. To make your game invitation available only to those selected from your friends list, make sure to leave this option unchecked.
GameFlood makes setting up a game server easy. From the computer you wish to use as your server, navigate to the mod you would like to host on the GameFlood website. Instead of clicking ‘Play,’ choose the ‘Host’ option. The GameFlood Download Manager will then ask if you would like to download the mod you have chosen to ‘Host.’ Choose ‘yes’ and the files needed to host the mod will be downloaded and installed. When notified that your game is ready, choose yes, and GameFlood will launch your server. You may be required to enter additional information once the game launches, depending on which game you are hosting. Your server is now running and ready to use. If people are unable to find your server you may need to open some ports on your router. For game specific information about port forwarding see our information about port forwarding below.
GameFlood allows you to set certain server settings for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. To do this, click the Settings link anywhere on the GameFlood website. On your settings page you will see a Game Server Settings windowpane. Click the game title you wish to edit. The following page contains the settings you may alter. Some settings are simply set to ‘on’ or ‘off’. Other settings require you to set certain values. Choose the settings you wish and click the ‘save’ button. Now every time you ‘Host’ a Half-Life 2: Deathmatch game from the GameFlood website these settings will be automatically applied to your game server.
Generally port forwarding is done so the outside world can connect to some type of server that is located behind your router/firewall. Web servers, ftp servers, mail servers, and game servers are all examples where forwarding would be needed. Click on the game title below to learn how to forward ports for each game.
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Unreal Tournament 2004
Call of Duty 2
Battlefield 2
General Port Forwarding Information
GameFlood is constantly adding more and more titles to our library of games. If you have a game that you would like to see supported on our site you can voice your opinion in our Forums or Send Us A Note.
We get our content from a variety of sources. Certain items are GameFlood exclusives and can only be found on our site. These are usually from professional content developers who we've established relationships with to host certain items exclusively on GameFlood. Everything else comes directly from the community. We offer free hosting that helps get new content out to a wide audience of gamers.
Yes, you can publish your content for free with GameFlood Publisher. The GameFlood Publisher is located in the Workshop section of GameFlood. You can publish maps, characters, weapons, or mods for any of the games that we support. If we don't support your favorite game, let us know. The GameFlood Publisher allows you to set the status of your content to Private, Alpha, Beta or Release based on its status.
The characters and weapons you see on our site are currently only available for Half-Life 2 mashups, not for individual download.
If it's not your map, please don't publish it without the artist's permission. If there's a talented artist online that you want to get involved, send them an invite to GameFlood and ask them to publish. You can also send their contact info to us and let us try and get their content hosted on our site.
To add other GameFlood users to your friends list simply search for them on the People page, or click their username anywhere it is linked on the site to view that user’s profile. Once you are viewing a users profile you will see a ‘add to friends’ button right below the users name and age information. Once you have sent the request, the invited user must accept that invitation before they will show up on your friends list. You can see your friend invitations that are pending acceptance in the Friend Invitation section of your messages.
Do you have friends who are not yet members of GameFlood? Send them invitations to join GameFlood and be they will automatically be added to your friends list. You can find this feature on the People page, below the search options. Click on the ‘invite friends’ button and enter your friends email address’ and an optional message on the following page. You can preview a copy of your message at the bottom of the page before you send it out.
In addition to all of the game content and mashup functionality GameFlood offers, we've also spent quite a bit of time and effort creating the Workshop. The Workshop allows teams, be it one person or twenty, to create projects and manage their workflow for any project they're working on. We give you forums, file version control, messaging systems, and much more. For more information on the Workshop, take a look.
Sure, the workshop is a collection of development tools available to anyone who would like to use them. Remember, anyone who uses the Workshop must abide by our Terms and Conditions of Use.
GameFlood does not tolerate the distribution or information pertaining to the distribution of cracked or pirated software. Requests for warez and warez links will be treated as piracy, which is strictly prohibited on GameFlood. This includes requests or provision of CD keys, cracks, serials, or pirated software of any kind. Any users who violate this rule will be banned from GameFlood. For more information on this topic please see our END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA), our Copyright Policy, or contact GameFlood Support.
If your problem is not addressed here you can visit the Forums or contact GameFlood Support.
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