I was playing LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth with a few friends recently and we got talking about how awesome it would be if we could modify some kind of real-time strategy game to include whoever we wanted (namely, us) in it. I figured Age of Empires would be easier to do, since it was a more popular game, but I wouldn't know where to start with something like this. All that would need to be done would be to change the sprites (we would probably make our own - and yes I realise how big of a task this is - so the 2D engine for AoE works well for us), sounds and names in the game.

So does anyone have any tips on how I can do this? Any suggestions of games to mod, if you think Age of Empires would be too difficult, or something else would be easier? Are there any sites out there that help with this kind of thing? Any suggestions about any part of it will be greatly appreciated! If the question has expired but you still want to contact me, please do, at [email protected]. Thanks!