The release of GTA:IV did result in the beginning stages of MTA:IV, but once Rockstar released their official multiplayer, many of MTA’s most seasoned developers and contributors were ready to move on with their professional lives. The MTA Team had the foresight to release this modification to the public as Open-Source code to attract future developers and embraced many new tools of game development that have become commonplace today such as installers, bug reporting, nightly builds, wiki documentation, anti-cheat, and Steam version support to name a few. Some added features include: voice chat, custom GUIs, web browser components. This allowed the user to manipulate game code and modify various settings, elements and added features to create unique servers and game modes. When the full-featured product began development, a constantly evolving Lua-based scripting system accompanied it. An editor was produced to allow in-game editing for the first time.
Although the first release was restricted to racing in vehicles, it was a proof of concept for a vastly superior framework that empowered users to make their own content. The 3rd project, MTA:SA, was much more ambitious. When GTA:SA came out, the contributors to the project were much more seasoned and mature. However, it had better synchronization and supported many new features. The MTA:VC mod still offered a hard-coded deathmatch and vehicle stunting game mode that could not be altered. Even Rockstar Games developers, the creators of GTA, contacted the MTA Team from time to time. At this point, MTA was well-known and there were mentions on gaming websites, magazines and even a TV interview on the gaming channel G4TV. The MTA Team succeeded in creating the basic multiplayer functionality much quicker through past-experience. It did not take long after GTA: Vice City for the 1st version of MTA:VC to release.
The working experience on GTA3 laid the framework for the second project, MTA:VC. Respectively, the main project names are: GTA3:MTA, MTA:VC, MTA:SA, MTA:IV. As new GTA games were released, new projects were created for GTA3, GTAVC, GTASA and GTAIV. The Multi Theft Auto (MTA) name became the identity of all following projects. The mod IJsVogel created was originally named “ GTA3: Alternative Multiplayer”, but soon after it became “ GTA3: Multi Theft Auto”. It did not take long for contributors to join the effort and turn it into a real multiplayer mod. Today is the 20 Year Anniversary of Multi Theft Auto! On the February 9th 2003, a rudimentary GTA3 multiplayer prototype was released by our founder, IJsVogel. Dear Multi Theft Auto players and supporters!
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