<function name="Initialize" parent="GM" type="hook"> <ishook>yes</ishook> <description>Called after the gamemode loads and starts. No entities would be present at the time this hook is called, please see <page>GM:InitPostEntity</page> for a one time fire hook after all map entities have been initialized.</description> <realm>Shared</realm> </function> <example> <description>"hi" will be printed to the console when the gamemode initializes.</description> <code> function GM:Initialize() print("hi" ) print( "hi" ) end -- That way you are overriding the default hook. -- You can use hook.Add to make more functions get called on initialization. hook.Add( "Initialize", "some_unique_name", function() print( "Initialization hook called" ) end ) </code> <output>`Initialization hook called` and `hi`</output> </example>