Promotion and what-not

[Bikerdude]

Ive been trying to get my mate who is a pretty good coder to join, but his RL takes up most of his time.

[Melan]

It would be slightly easier, and just as valuable, to advertise for *mappers*.

Yes, I think maps are the lifeblood of the mod. People should make more of them.

 

(Me? I haven't been able to commit time to mapping since August. And sadly, this may stay that way long enough for me to miss the Halloween contest. )

[lost_soul]

I agree with trying to find more mappers. The coders and artists have done an excellent job, but there are still lots of resources (especially sounds) that haven't even been used yet in missions. If you're a naughty person like me and you checked in the PK4 files, you know what I mean.

 

*ever since discovering hidden conversations in DX, I've listened to game audio files after completing them when possible.*

[MoroseTroll]

My proposal is just an idea . If you think, guys, that you need more mappers than coders and artists, then let it be. But I believe that you definitely should insert the "We are hiring/searching..." text somewhere in TDM site, because the more people know about TDM, the better. Yes, the site already contains the "Want to help? ..." text, but I believe it is not as attractive and/or aggressive as it could be.

[SeriousToni]

*ever since discovering hidden conversations in DX, I've listened to game audio files after completing them when possible.*

 

What is "DX" ?

[Shadowhide]

deus ex

[SeriousToni]

Ah okay, thanks!

When I was a child, i took the Thief 1 sounds and used them as windows sounds. It was really funny when the guards where mocking me because some error message bopped up or I shut down the computer

[AluminumHaste]

WTF happened to Aprilister? Man did he go off the deep end, I totally missed this thread I think.

[fllood]

Ah okay, thanks!

When I was a child, i took the Thief 1 sounds and used them as windows sounds. It was really funny when the guards where mocking me because some error message bopped up or I shut down the computer

 

hehee .. I still do

[lost_soul]

Somebody should promote TDM here: http://www.osnews.com/story/25328/The_State_of_Linux_Gaming_2011

 

They should know that there are over FIFTY missions to play and that this is nothing at all like Doom 3.

[AluminumHaste]

I just read the article I couldn't find any mention of darkmod or doom 3

[Bikerdude]

Im currently logging a support ticket with nVidia to get a profile made for the Darkmod (the power managment mode isnt detecting our game correctly when set to adaptive) and I noticed we dont have min/rec spec requirements listed anywhere I can see. At an educated guess I would suggest the same as D3-BFG-

 

http://www.systemreq...ition/11482?p=r

[Lux]

I don't know if you've used Nvidia Inspector before, Biker, but you can set up your own custom profile based on D3 or D3BFG or whatever. You can just pull up either of those and rename it or create a new custom profile and use either of those as a template (I believe). It will also set SLi/Crossfire bits accordingly for those engines and other parameters for compatibility.

 

Its free software.

Edited October 23, 2014 by Lux

[Bikerdude]

I don't know if you've used Nvidia Inspector before, Biker, but you can set up your own custom profile based on D3 or D3BFG or whatever.

Would be nice to have the driver to officially recognise our little game though, and to that end I have also asked if our game can be added to the Geforce experience.

 

But back on topic, min/req specs - I would like consensus, can the BFG specs above be applied to the Darkmod?

[Dunedain]

That would be cool to have The Dark Mod officially listed as a supported game in GeForce Experience.

 

As far as promoting the TDM, the recent contest connected with the release of the new Thief game was a great promotion. Having TDM officially directly associated with the promotion and launch of a new Thief game is a very big deal, and shows just how highly TDM is thought of even by the team that made the new Thief game, and also how popular and well thought of it is with Thief fans.

[SteveL]

But back on topic, min/req specs - I would like consensus, can the BFG specs above be applied to the Darkmod?

Yes, I think... Unlike most games TDM has missions suitable for both good and poor hardware, but those specs are pretty modest and seem reasonable.

[Bikerdude]

but those specs are pretty modest and seem reasonable.

If we get consensus from 1 or more team members we should look at put this info on the main webpage and on the wiki, which I am happy to do.

[Tels]

Would be nice to have the driver to officially recognise our little game though, and to that end I have also asked if our game can be added to the Geforce experience.

 

This is a double-edged sword, tho. Remember how NVdidia "detected" doom by looking for doom3.exe and then applied wrong optimizations, so that when you run TDM as doom3.exe it breaks, but if you rename it to mood3.exe, it works?

 

Do we really want NVidia to muck with our application, only to stop updating their code in a year and in two years we have another problem on our hands?