'At 10 million sales, Garry's Mod is still going strong'. ^ 'Ridealong: The bizarre resort town of Tower Unite'.^ a b c 'The rise, fall and future of Gmod Tower'.Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (help) Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Cite uses deprecated parameter |dead-url= (help) Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. ^ 'Garry's Mod – Fretta Game mode Contest'.Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. ^ ' Garry's Mod Lua Wiki – Resource.AddFile'.^ ' A Brief History Of Garry's Mod: Count To Ten'.Archived from the original on 26 December 2010. Also in 2017, it was featured in Rock, Paper, Shotgun 's Have You Played? series. Garry's Mod also won the Steam Awards 'Defies Description' Award in 2017. The latter magazine's Dan Stapleton called it 'ingenious'. Garry's Mod won Computer Games Magazine 's 2005 'Best Mod' and PC Gamer US 's 'Best Mod 2005' awards. The use of Wiremod allows the creation of very complex contraptions, and everything from virtual computers to missiles, aircraft, spaceships and space probes, robots and drones all constructed from components available in-game without the use of modded entities.

CPU modules, which use a Low-level programming language, allow similar capabilities, as well as the capability to render graphics on a digital screen, to be able to fully simulate a virtual computer. It also features Expression2 (E2) general-purpose controllers, which allow the player to program the chip with a high-level programming language to compute inputs and outputs to control a wide swathe of elements. Wiring these components together allows the player to create a very large variety of electronically-controlled machines. Wiremod is a user-created mod that significantly expands the sandbox capabilities of the game by adding a large number of pseudo-electronic components such as microcontrollers, logic gates, buttons, radios, gyroscopes, screens, GPS modules, sensors, laser rangefinders, speed sensors and much more.

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