This version links to completely flat, albeit functional, addons directories.
Check out the updated version, or see the notes below for tips navigating these basic listings.
One of the best aspects of Ambrosia games was that they encouraged their users to create plugins and mods; these would add new elements to their games. This helped keep an active user base and built goodwill among the fans and with the company. The Escape Velocity series is best known for being easily editable, and users created hundreds of different scenarios for EV games.
Despite EV games having the most plugins, Ambrosia offered hosting for fan-made addons to all of their games. It would be sad to lose all this user-made content if/when Ambrosia's servers go down, so I added an archive here on Cythera Guides to preserve that material. Sure, a lot of it isn't that valuable, but there are some real gems in these files. In any case, they represent many thousands of hours of fans' efforts to present their own ideas to others through Ambrosia's terrific games.
Every game with addons is linked alphabetically below. Each link directs you to an index with another alphabetized listing which contains links to all the addons. Every listing has the same details seen on Ambrosia's site as of the archive date (Feb. 16, 2019) -- information like author, rating, number of downloads, and a general description. The download path is linked under "Path".
A couple notes:
These pages are as basic as possible, so I recommend using your browser's "Find" feature to locate specific items.
The individual indices are alphabetized according to Python's default string-sorting rules. This places capitals from A-Z first, then lowercase a-z. Additionally, numbers, special characters, and spaces will move a title near the top. A leading space in the filename has moved some addons to the top, even though it doesn't show on the HTML list.
There are a few rare cases of missing files. These could not be located on Ambrosia's servers at the time of archive and have probably been removed. In such cases, an italicized "File Missing" warning will be placed alongside the addon description. If anyone has a copy of any of the missing files, let me know, and I'll happily restore them!
The dates are copied from Ambrosia's site. You'll probably notice that many of them say Aug. 12, 2004. That is the date when Ambrosia migrated to their newer website, alongside updated addons pages. Somehow, they lost all of the original dates in the conversion process!!! Given that it happened back in 2004, the only way to get the original dates is to use something like the Wayback Machine to view the old website. While archive.org hasn't saved any of the files themselves, it has stored most of the index pages, including addon lists. If you go to an archive from early 2004 (like this one), you can easily check the dates of specific files there. I am open to restoring the dates here, but I am more focused on saving the files, and archive.org's availability makes it less important to have the dates here.