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I'd think a large part is made by Dram, but I imagine the part biker featured in his video was his own contribution ... just because it makes sense he'd make a video featuring that. Really I've never followed it that closely to know what's going on, so don't quote me on anything. =V

Blackheart Manor is Dram's WIP and we haven't heard from Dram in a while (have we?). There was hype for it even before the game was out, back in 2009. I did a little reading up and it was already being called the Duke Nukem Forever of TDM in 2010.

I haven't been following it, but I can see that that video is on biker's account & it'd make sense if he said he'd take it on, since he likes to take on projects that seem to be abandoned.

Now I remember what the other FM was. I wanted to have part of mine set in a hospital, and T2X, which came out right afterwards too, had a level set in a hospital. After that experience I thought for most ideas you have, someone is going to have thought along similar lines. But the thing is people can have their own takes with the same idea too. So I think it's okay to have the same idea played out, if you give it your own spin.

I remember making an FM set during a plague, and by the next year there were 2 FMs that were set during plagues (one of them was 7 Sisters and I forgot the other one just now), then TDS came out with a plague ward, and not long after Dishonored came out centered around a plague... So, it happens sometimes.

"Al Jazeera approved!" -b

Yeah I saw right after I posted that, but I was already editing in a longer post...

You should edit the time stamp into the first post.

Anyway, while that sounds like one of our sounds, it's also a pretty generic "tension" kind of sound you'd use for all kinds of purposes.

I'd first look to see if we actually ourselves got that sound from a royalty free archive, where it makes sense other organizations would also use it. Then I'd look into whether it was covergent evolution; sounds going for a "tension" effect that led to the same kind of thing.

It could have been lifted straight from TDM, but I think it's more likely it was that kind of route.

I picked it up but haven't played it yet. Its got great ratings, so somebody likes it.

Hope you feel better soon and that the dreaded long covid doesn't come along for the ride like it did for me.

Do you want to put up a link to it?

If it didn't the first 15 times, I think it's okay for the 16th time.

Other people can map. The important part is the assets, scripts, & gameplay.

Digital Nightfall, aka Dan, has been contractually barred from making FMs as long as he's been working for Arkane, so it's very unlikely to be him.

I love mapping videos, and they're so rare--even more so for our genre--so thanks for this. I look forward to them!

Speaking of which, I ran Darkmod on my new laptop with a GTX 1060, and it got 16 fps. Then I realized it was running Intel graphics by default and I had to go into the settings to have the GTX run it. Then the fps instantly shot up to 150. So watch out for that.

Epic and entirely preventable blunder on their part. At least they've fixed the root issue they should have done years ago, for what it's worth I guess.

I bought all these new games, including Prey & Kingdom Come (which are both amazing btw), but I keep coming back to play a Rogue-like with ascii graphics, Caves of Qud. It's like the Dwarf Fortress of an adventure RPG and more addicting than even the eye-candy games. I guess the depth drags you down with it.

My gut instinct is that same kind of unease you feel when you go traveling and aren't sure if you turned off the stove, like what if it accidentally leaves the game running, or the game does something weird to your computer while running and you're not around to see it?

I still think I'm a little unclear. Does this require your machine to be on & online, and Steam will open the game & run it on your computer (as opposed to, e.g., the game running off some Steam server, but it knows you own that game)?

Ok more like glorified long-cable screen & controller then, except the cable is the net.

That's a good question. If it just works like a glorified external HD maybe it could work.

Good luck with the new venture. I think creative work is more loved & appreciated in communities like ours than out there in for-profitville anyway.

You mean your re-load was reverting back before the new spawnarg was added? Yeah.

(I first thought you re-loaded a game saved after the new spawnarg was added, but the saved spanwarg wasn't there like it should have been, which made your sentence very confusing.)

I don't know. The source code is publicly available, so you could look it up if you're ok at deciphering code (usually not as hard as it sounds). As for the admins, I was thinking someone just PM them periodically to ask and then post the answer. It's just a matter of a big fan taking the initiative really.

You might be able to get statistics from the respective mirrors from their admins, so you know it's at least more than X people.