The people

80 people across 6 scenes · every credit links to its source

1. %.Gone

   • THUG ProOne of the three developers, written "Gone" on THPSX and "%gone" in Kotaku's 2014 story. source
   • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyWrote ClownJob'd for THUG1 and THUG2, self-contained patches with fixes, features and OpenSpy support. They inspired the PARTYMOD THUG patches. source

2. Ace, adelyn, sawwl and slime generator

   • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyTested the first PARTYMOD release, for THPS3. source

3. Activistic

   • Skate 3 moddingShared one of the earliest dated PS3 RTM tools for Skate 3 (2015). source

4. Aim4Kill

   • Skate 3 moddingMade the BlazeSDK that the Skate 3 Blaze server builds on. source

5. AlanConstantino

   • Skate 3 moddingIntegrated the runtime fixes for Skate3-Mobile 2.1 and tested them on a Retroid Pocket 6. source

6. Alex McHugh (mchughalex)

   • Skate 3 moddingCreated and maintains skate3recomp, the native PC port, and its Skate-specific rexglue runtime, including the native renderer. source

7. asdf

   • THUG ProWrote io_thug_tools, the first public Blender plugin for THUG levels (early 2017). source

8. AxlRocks

   • THUG ProMade the high-res sprites for 0.6. source

9. bAstimc

   • THPSProAuthor of THPSPro for THPS 1+2 and 3+4. Started learning UE4 in February 2022 with guidance from GHFear, after years modding THAW and Project 8 builds. THPSPro ports levels from later games and restores classic tech, along with goals, a free-roam camera and a LAN mode. source

10. billowper

    • Skater XL moddingMade "Bills Tools", the Unity template project and toolset that the mapping wiki recommends for new map makers. source

11. blendermf

    • Skater XL moddingMade XLShredLoader, an early collection of mods running on Unity Mod Manager, reworked from the XLShredMenu mod. source

12. Brookzee99

    • Skater XL moddingMade Oshawa Arena, which hosted the first Skater XL FakeSkate Open. source

13. Buku313

    • Skate 3 moddingForked skate3recomp to make the Android build, Skate3-Mobile. source

14. BWKingsnake

    • Skate 3 moddingMade the RPCS3 config tool that sets players up for Skate 3 online. source

15. Calplex

    • Skate 3 moddingCovered each map breakthrough on YouTube as it landed, from Skate 2's city to the first fully custom maps. source

16. Chase Sechrist

    • THUG ProContributor the team thanked in the 0.6 release for helping "re-ignite others interest in THPS modding". Wikipedia's infobox lists Chase as a designer. source

17. chasmlol

    • Skate 3 moddingMain author of SK8 Engine, the Skate 3 Rust engine and its .skate map format, and the in-game custom maps catalog. source

18. CHC

    • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyThe original creator of OpenSpy and its backend developer. By far the largest committer to openspy-core, the open-source GameSpy replacement the patches connect to. source

19. chc, krad, demo and frost

    • THUG ProThe early helpers Kotaku thanked alongside the developers in 2014. source

20. ckosmic

    • Skate 3 moddingWrote CH3AT, the Skate 3 trainer for RPCS3. source

21. Cult Crew and Skyline xL

    • Skate 3 moddingPublished Skate 3's memory offsets for other tool makers to use. source

22. DanielKIWI

    • Skater XL moddingOne of the first Skater XL modders. Their repo, created three days after early access, has a replay editor, a session marker manager, grind-to-grind and audio pitch mods. source

23. DawgVinci

    • Skater XL moddingMade XXLMod, one of the community mods Easy Day tested against its own updates. source

24. denetii

    • THUG ProBuilt io_thps_scene, the Blender add-on that exports custom levels in THUG Pro's format. source

25. devHazz

    • Skate 3 moddingWrote S3GE, which injects custom board graphics into RPCS3. source

26. dga711

    • Session moddingMade the Session EzPz Mod, the patch that let Map Switcher 2.0 load custom maps without unpacking the game. source

27. Dumbads (Ethanw05)

    • Skate 3 moddingCo-runs the Discord and wrote ArenaBuilder, DlcBuilder and ChallengeEditor, the tools that read and write Skate 3's world format. Also contributes to the Rust engine. source

28. dustpancake

    • Skate 3 moddingHelped with the hex work behind Skate 3 Texture Tools. source

29. FermenterGames

    • Skater XL moddingMade Fermenter Plaza, a sprawling outdoor map featured by Easy Day in 2021. source

30. Frost and Kirillgta

    • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyOpenSpy administrators, handling web services and PR, and Russian support. source

31. Gabisonfire

    • Session moddingHelped build the mod manager's free Asset Store and its app updater. source

32. gamingrobot, Tratos and the LittleBigRefresh team

    • Skate 3 moddingTheir Blaze TDF documentation, Blaze emulator and RPCN ticket validation made the custom server possible. source

33. GHFear

    • Skate 3 moddingSpent months reverse engineering EA's texture and model formats, published the first texture modding walkthrough, and wrote RW4ArchiveTool for the skate games' RenderWare 4 archives. source
    • Session moddingThe largest contributor to the public Unreal Mod Unlocker. Also built early Session maps, including Skate 3's Black Box Distribution park and THPS2's School II. source

34. Grim Doe

    • Skate 3 moddingPackaged the EA SKATE MODDING team's SPRX menu into a one-click PS3 installer. source

35. GuruXL

    • Skater XL moddingMade XLWeather, with a day/night cycle, skyboxes and weather effects. source

36. hallofmeat

    • Skate 3 moddingStarted Skateboard3Server, the first open attempt at a custom Skate 3 server. source

37. Illusory

    • Session moddingMakes the Unreal Mod Unlocker, which Session Mod Manager has used to patch the game since 2020, and runs a Discord of over 40,000 Unreal modders. source

38. Jack06WS

    • Skate 3 moddingOpen-sourced Skate3RTE, a real-time editing tool for RGH/JTAG Xbox 360s. source

39. Jean-Olive

    • Skater XL moddingA prolific map maker. "Streets" shipped in Skater XL 1.0, followed by an optimized Industrial Zone in 2021. source

40. Kiwi

    • Skater XL moddingMade the widely used replay editor mod, then joined Easy Day in 2019, where the official replay editor was built on that mod. source

41. Krad

    • THUG ProA founder of THPSX, the community site that hosts THUG Pro, and a long-time helper on OpenSpy, the server THUG Pro players go online through. source

42. Krad and Freddy

    • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyCo-owners of OpenSpy when THPSX took it over in 2013, funding it as a non-commercial service. source

43. Ksk

    • THUG ProWorked on the new Blender plugin and wired its rendering and material effects into THUG Pro 0.6. source

44. letmynutzgo, Splinks, GoFundYourself and Biz

    • THUG ProMade the new skater models for 0.6. source

45. MCBTay

    • Skater XL moddingMade XLGearModifier (XLGM), which adds custom gear meshes, and XLMenuMod. source

46. morten

    • THUG ProCo-creator, and a primary developer since the start, focused on fixing bugs and importing levels from the other games. source

47. morten, GHFear, spiritovod, Maru, demzy, jensTHPS, nacho, Sattan and Simonschreibt

    • THPSProThanked in the THPSPro update videos for their help. morten is a THUG Pro co-creator and GHFear a Skate 3 tool author, so the scenes overlap. source

48. Nakas

    • Skate 3 moddingWrote the level loader, the PS3 → Xbox 360 transcoder, the iOS and web builds and skatemods.com, and contributed runtime fixes to the Android build. source

49. NDx

    • Skate 3 moddingWrote the Skate mod tool for RGH/JTAG Xbox 360s (2016), covering all three skate games, and an on-console trainer. source

50. newman55

    • Skater XL moddingWrote Unity Mod Manager, which Skater XL's script mods have used from the start. source

51. OnlyMoisties

    • Skate 3 moddingGot the recompiled game running natively on jailbroken PS4s. source

52. Pactole

    • Skater XL moddingMade "Hudland", the private training facility map that shipped in 1.0. source

53. PARTYMANX

    • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyWrites every PARTYMOD patch, for THPS2, THPS3, THPS4, THUG, THUG2, American Wasteland and Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX, including a Vulkan renderer for THPS2. source

54. Pinetri, TallyMark, Ulfednyer, GavinHaloMan and Anthony Albanese

    • Skate 3 moddingCredited with tuukkas, GHFear and wispp for bringing Skate 2's city into Skate 3. source

55. portingpete

    • Skate 3 moddingDid the first recomp bring-up of Skate 3, then pointed everyone to the more complete project. source

56. prevzzy

    • THPSProTHPS player whose run of THPSPro's Foundry helped introduce the mod. source

57. Quazz

    • THUG ProOne of the primary developers, with a strong focus on scripting. source

58. randyadr

    • Skate 3 moddingStarted the PS3 map converter thread and shipped the GUI importer, from v1.04 to v1.16, which brings PS3 maps to the recomp. source

59. Redgouf

    • Skater XL moddingContributor to XLGearModifier. source
    • Session moddingMade the in-depth tutorial video credited in the mod manager's README. source

60. rodriada000

    • Session moddingWrote Session Map Switcher, which became Session Mod Manager. It's open source, with 79 releases over five years, an asset store and Linux support. source

61. Roober, Khelldon and MaTSix

    • Session moddingMade early community maps, including Community Park, LowLife Parking Garage and the SLS 2013 Super Crown course. source

62. Rooseafe

    • Skate 3 moddingMade a how-to for installing mods on RPCS3 that passed 100,000 views, and covered the skate 1 map port. source

63. S4M

    • Skate 3 moddingWrote QTS3native, a Python library for building Skate 3 native-style menus on top of RPCS3. source

64. Sattan

    • THUG ProOne of the few custom level makers who builds THUG Pro levels entirely from scratch, and wrote a Blender tutorial so anyone can. source

65. Shellywell123

    • Skate 3 moddingBuilt the first RPCS3 file tools, a custom park swapper and file manager, then Skate 3 Texture Tools. source

66. silentbaws

    • Skater XL moddingWrote XLMultiplayer, the fan multiplayer mod people played for almost two years before official multiplayer existed. source

67. sk8ace

    • THUG ProWrote the THPSX update announcements, including the THPS3 levels in 2015 and the 0.6 release in 2018. source

68. skate6743 (wispp)

    • Skate 3 moddingThe most prolific Skate 3 modder. Made the S3M and Native Menu mod menus for RPCS3, a PS3 SPRX menu, the 2025 proxy that first got RPCS3 players online, the Blaze server that followed, and the Arcadia fork for skate and skate 2. source

69. SmokeyDawg58

    • Skate 3 moddingCo-maintains the public repository behind the RPCS3 online proxy. source

70. Spanky

    • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyRan an earlier version of the OpenSpy service at Lrnit.org before shutting it down. source

71. SqueegeeDino

    • Skater XL moddingMaintains the Skater XL mapping wiki, the community's documentation for building maps. source

72. SunJay

    • Skate 3 moddingCo-runs the Dumbads & SunJays Skate3 Modding Discord. Wrote GLB 2 ARENA, the level compiler with its Blender mapping tools, and a chaos mod, and is the first name credited on the modding toolset. source

73. Syphrus

    • Skate 3 moddingHas documented the scene on YouTube for years, from "Breaking Skate 3 Using Mods" to a podcast episode on the history of Skate 3 modding. source

74. The Mad Man

    • Skate 3 moddingFound the realistic ragdoll mod, and is credited on the San Vanelona port. source

75. Theo

    • Skater XL moddingA map maker who joined Easy Day in 2019 and helped build maps. Theo's map debuted in Skater XL 1.0. source

76. trxbail

    • PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpyPointed PARTYMANX to several of the fixes in the THUG1 and THUG2 patches. source

77. tuukkas

    • Skate 3 moddingRenderWare arena and texture tooling (ArenaTest, the texture-arena creator), the original collision exporter, widescreen patches for RPCS3 and Xenia, and a lead on the San Vanelona port. Credited on the shared toolset with SunJay, Dumbad, Wissp and S4M. source

78. TyDubayGamez

    • Skate 3 moddingBuilt TMenu, a large real-time modding tool for PS3 over PS3MAPI. source

79. Yaky

    • Skater XL moddingMap maker behind The Warehouse (2021) and later maps featured in the official Mod Browser. source

80. zombiedestroyer29

    • Skate 3 moddingDocuments skate's file formats for the Skate Modding Team, and works on Fauxware4, a C# recreation of skate's RenderWare 4 tooling, and a decompilation project. source