Leaderboard

I just dreamed that I was on a Dark Tranquility concert and then the vocalist took me out of the massive crowd on the stage just to leave it with me and the band together. We went to the back stage where they showed me a game they were developing with the crowd outside waiting for the next song. Then we went out for dinner and ice skating in an abandoned mall. lol

Moddb article for 2.10 is up: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/news/the-darkmod-210-is-here I will be extending it with more details soon!

Woo!! 2.10 Beta "Release Candidate" ( 210-07 ) is out: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21198-beta-testing-210/ It wont be long now ...

Sorry for the delay. The 2.09b Hotfix is now up at Moddb https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/downloads/the-dark-mod-209-full

I'm starting to think we need another mapping contest.

Oh look the status updates are back!

I like house-cleaning and taking out the trash.

I still play classic Doom (albeit with user-made mods and maps rather than the original campaign) on a regular basis. A game from the early 90's which has still got a healthy following in 2022. Pretty amazing.

Happy Birthday to me! I've already got a birthday gift, although indirectly, from @Airship Ballet, thanks lil' lady, you're great!

This is a status update.

Finished Deathloop yesterday. My verdict: Arkane Studios showing off once again that they are one of the best in game design: Pick the timeloop mystery adventure mechanics of Outer Wilds and remix them, add "Dark Souls"-like invasions in the form that other players can play your antagonist Juliana, and wrap it all in 60s-stylized first person shooter with abilities and upgrades, and an interesting story to unravel. This culminates in such a unique gameplay experience that "Deathloop" would have deserved Game of the Year 2021 WAY more than "It Takes Two". Especially the invasions add so much tension to your playthroughs, it is absolutely exhilarating. That is, unless your opponent lags incredibly, which sadly happens quite often. Combine this with the performance issues many players experienced, and you know why the game did not win game of the year. It is really sad to see technical issues hinder such a masterpiece of a game from doing well. The only criticism I have with respect to gameplay is that the first shot of any weapon is apparently always 100% accurate, which enables you to headshot enemies hundreds of meters away using your submachine gun, but other than that the gun play is on point. All in all, just 9/10 due to technical issues.

Do we want fur in TDM? Like https://duzenko.github.io/webgl/

Congratulations to Wellingtoncrab! Winner of the Christmas Connections Contest !

Woohoo! My third mission is released!

Congratulations on the 2.10 release, friends! All of you who worked on it deserve a reward--What am I saying? Many rewards! And many well-deserved vacations too. I especially love the faster loading times, this is something that has been bugging me since Thief 1, but back then I had an HDD, now I have an SSD and no matter if I save or load, the mission is huge or not, TDM is just incredibly fast, never had I have to spend more than 50 seconds anymore!

It's funny how perception changes over the years. I've been replaying Bioshock in its Remastered version, and I'm surprised how bad the level design actually is. It's just a series of abstract corridor mazes that you can't really map out in your head. There's nothing that would ground them in any kind of reality, fictional or otherwise, no sense of place people could live in. It's almost like Wolfenstein 3d with cool art deco assets.

Anyone here played Inscryption? At first, I was like "no, I am not going to play a stupid card game", but this game is so much more than that. It is so meta, full of 4th wall breaks, and feels so damn spooky and weird because of it. Absolutely recommended, if you can stand the visuals. I recommend not reading up too much on it, as that could easily spoil half the incredible surprises. Just know that what you see in the beginning is by far not everything.

Keep on Creeping on...

I never realised there was a Dark Mod Twitter account. Perhaps it was banned and waiting for Elon Musk to unban it.

Found something nice on netflix. Arcane - league of legends. A combination of 3d world using 2d effects and steampunk.

Deathloop – what a mess of a game. I'd love to see a post-mortem on it some day. I hope Arkane is doing okay though.

Please, can we finally group the missions by year in the game menu?

My guinea pig is cuter than your guinea pig https://i.imgur.com/r5VIdr0.jpeg

McCain Western Fries taste best when heated in the air fryer at 180 degrees Celsius for 17 minutes.

Fiddling around with a new tdm-in-webbrowser project: boxedwine 32bit and emscripten.

Every day is just like the 4 Non Blondes song. What IS going on?

Sometimes life throws a curveball - other times it straight up tries to take you outta the game. Been one thing after another lately but I ain't goin without a fight!

Hello there. I have read from the TDM Moddb page detailing that you are the author of the "Faster loading times". For that, I want to give you my utmost respect and my thanks. Loading times are something I absolutely hate, I can't even bear to wait 10 seconds for a game to load, but I just have to deal with it. Thankfully, you have made it absolutely bearable now! Again, thank you very much for such a great feature, I dare say that 2.10 is absolutely worth it just for the fast loading times than the rest, but I don't want to belittle the others, the volumetric light and lighting improvements are also fantastic! Since I know curiosity will kill me, I might as well ask you something... Is it possible to give this enhancement to other games? If not, at least Doom 3 itself?

Ping! I intend to complete voting tallies on March 18th if possible. Please try out the missions and vote if you can:

I find it alarming that 5 missions with 2.10-only elements take 15% of space among all 158 released missions.

The final solution for low-end GPUs: r_skibSubviews 1 r_skipInteractions 1 r_shadows 0 r_ambientMinLevel 0.6 tdm_lg_interleave 0 If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

Making content for TDM with dual monitor setup is awesome! ? Modeling and prototyping materials is much faster without alt-tabbing every 30 seconds or so

Dark Souls is a joke. Try changing the seat covers of a maxi cosi child car seat... It's utter agony!

A spidey! I love spideys

I've been thinking alot about indentations in the last time.