2003, Dan Pinchbeck, Doom: Scarydarkfast, page 123:
Alongside Fisher's Aliens TC, the first DOOM total conversion and therefore the world's first total conversion mod, other existing intellectual properties were quickly reinvented as DOOM mods.
2003, Katie Salen Tekinbas & Eric Zimmerman, Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, unnumbered page:
Elemental is what is known as a “total conversion” mod: rather than simply inventing a new character skin, game level, or in-game object, the mod transforms Dungeon Siege into a completely different game.
2006, William Abner, The 2006 Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs, and Lightsabers, page 157:
This is a total conversion mod for Medieval: Total War that uses Napoleonic era troops rather than swords and knights.
2008, James Newman, Playing with Videogames, page 169:
CounterStrike originated as a Total Conversion mod for Valve's Half-Life.
2010, Satish Nambisan & Mohanbir Sawhney, The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World, page 159:
The best-known total conversion mod of Half-Life is Counter Strike, which uses the Half Life engine but is a multiplayer-only game.
2012, Casper Harteveld, Making Sense of Virtual Risks: A Quasi-Experimental Investigation Into Game-Based Training, page 11:
In the end, the two created in less than a month a total conversion mod of Unreal Tournament 2004 in which players wander around an authentic Dutch landscape (without any guns of course).
2013, Graeme Kirkpatrick, Computer Games and the Social Imaginary, unnumbered page:
Although modding is not limited in principle in its scope, the 'total conversion mod' that effects a profound transformation of the game engine, like the famous conversion of Half-Life (1998) from a single-player game to the multi-player Counter-strike (1999), is now extremely rare (Nieborg and van der Graaf 2008:187), for reasons described above.
2013, Josef Köstlbauer, "The Strange Attraction of Simulation: Realism, Authenticity, Virtuality", in Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History (eds. Andrew B.R. Elliott & Matthew Wilhelm Kapell), page 171:
Recently a total conversion mod called Day Z turned the ArmA 2 expansion "ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead" into an open-world zombie survival game.
