Orange Smoothie Productions
Encyclopedia
Orange Smoothie Productions (OSP) is a PC game mod
team which started programming modifications in February 1998 at the University of Kansas
by releasing a mod called King of the Hill (unrelated to the cartoon TV series) for Quake II
. Although first created for Quake II, OSP is probably best known for modding games based on id Tech 3. An early OSP About page indicated the potential for modding Unreal Tournament
and Tribes
games, but OSP never released a mod for either game publicly. The Orange Smoothie mod became the de facto standard in many gaming circles, and is still installed on many servers.
Mainly meant for tournament play, the mod provided more interface options and modifications than normal Quake II. The player could effectively change anything in the interface to their liking. There are also added parts to the multiplayer that many consider make it easier than standard Quake for tournament play. Such improvements include only allowing players to start a match after each had declared their readiness, additional statistics such as weapon accuracies on the score window, voting for a map or to kick someone, timeout calls, and much more.
The OSP team worked on several other mods for Quake II that made it to varying levels of completeness. These include APC (canceled), Mutilator (canceled), Rocket Olympics and a Quake II ngLog mod.
In late 2004, derean announced his intention to develop a mod for Doom 3
, however a month later decided to cease development. The EMZ team took the Doom 3 OSP alpha code and used its concepts as the basis for a new mod, while managing to keep a similar feel to OSP's mods.
- Lawrence Campus.
The http://www.orangesmoothie.org website was updated and brought back online on April 14, 2007
Mod (computer gaming)
Mod or modification is a term generally applied to personal computer games , especially first-person shooters, role-playing games and real-time strategy games. Mods are made by the general public or a developer, and can be entirely new games in themselves, but mods are not standalone software and...
team which started programming modifications in February 1998 at the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
by releasing a mod called King of the Hill (unrelated to the cartoon TV series) for Quake II
Quake II
Quake II, released on December 9, 1997, is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Id Software and distributed by Activision. It is not a sequel to Quake; it merely uses the name of the former game due to Id's difficulties in coming up with alternative names.The soundtrack for Quake II...
. Although first created for Quake II, OSP is probably best known for modding games based on id Tech 3. An early OSP About page indicated the potential for modding Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament is a futuristic first-person shooter video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It was published in 1999 by GT Interactive. Retrospectively, the game has also been referred to as UT99 or UT Classic to differentiate it from its numbered sequels...
and Tribes
Tribes series
Tribes is a series of science fiction first-person shooter computer games originally developed by Dynamix, a subsidiary of Sierra Entertainment...
games, but OSP never released a mod for either game publicly. The Orange Smoothie mod became the de facto standard in many gaming circles, and is still installed on many servers.
Mainly meant for tournament play, the mod provided more interface options and modifications than normal Quake II. The player could effectively change anything in the interface to their liking. There are also added parts to the multiplayer that many consider make it easier than standard Quake for tournament play. Such improvements include only allowing players to start a match after each had declared their readiness, additional statistics such as weapon accuracies on the score window, voting for a map or to kick someone, timeout calls, and much more.
Success
Part of the reason for the mod's widespread success is that in most cases it did not change the core gameplay of the host game, but extended it with admin and referee functionality, as well as other visual and administrative details that improved the game experience for both server administrators and players. These changes also made it much easier (and in some cases possible) to host competitive events for the game, particularly over the internet. For some games, there were also additional variations on gameplay provided such as with Soldier of Fortune 2, adding the OSP++ and SoF2++ game modes as well as the VIP game type.The OSP team worked on several other mods for Quake II that made it to varying levels of completeness. These include APC (canceled), Mutilator (canceled), Rocket Olympics and a Quake II ngLog mod.
In late 2004, derean announced his intention to develop a mod for Doom 3
Doom 3
Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac...
, however a month later decided to cease development. The EMZ team took the Doom 3 OSP alpha code and used its concepts as the basis for a new mod, while managing to keep a similar feel to OSP's mods.
Games supported by OSP
- Quake IIQuake IIQuake II, released on December 9, 1997, is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Id Software and distributed by Activision. It is not a sequel to Quake; it merely uses the name of the former game due to Id's difficulties in coming up with alternative names.The soundtrack for Quake II...
- Quake III
- Return to Castle WolfensteinReturn to Castle WolfensteinReturn to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007. The single player game was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software...
(beta) - Soldier of Fortune 2
Continued development of Soldier of Fortune 2 mod
On July 13, 2006, after almost a year-long hiatus, Gary "Monk" Stanley released version 1.1 of the OSP mod for SoF2 on his personal webserver. This version includes a substantial list of changes for the mod. As of early September 2006, version 1.1 has not been well-received by the user base. This is most likely due to the lack of awareness caused by the aforementioned abandonment of the orangesmoothie.org server. However, the mod still enjoys the surviving attention of many veteran and new players.OSP developers
- Jason "Rhea" Keimig
- Sander "Dessignator" Brandenburg
- Christian "SHoD" Farcy
- Tim "Gouki" Pearson
- Greg "Phred" Price
- "myrddin"
- Craig "BotanikA" Sparks
- Brian "stIen" Sparks
- Scott "Spudman" Woodward
- Brandon "Green Marine" Reinhart
- Gary "Monk" Stanley
- Mathieu "derean" Rouleau
Official website history
Around late 2005, orangesmoothie.org began returning a "403 Forbidden" error, after the hosting service (speakeasy.net) found uploaded viruses/spyware in the user forums. During the summer of 2006, both orangesmoothie.org and orangesmoothie.com were used as a gateway for PNE Services, an unrelated company who also uses the URL dogsnot.com as a similar gateway. Shortly after the redirect to PNE was uploaded, both Orange Smoothie websites were modified to state only "OrangeSmoothie.org," but their whois info still points to the ns1.pneservices.com nameserver, and lists the owner as Overland Audio with a dogsnot.com-based email address. It may be of interest to note that Overland Audio is located in Shawnee Mission, KS which is about 35 miles from the original home of OSP, the University of KansasUniversity of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
- Lawrence Campus.
The http://www.orangesmoothie.org website was updated and brought back online on April 14, 2007