Following the discussion of the Released and Upcoming thread Fidcal and I came up with some ideas how we could save abandoned labours of love. We came up with the following for contributing and adopting unfinished work maintained in this thread:
How to contribute?
If for any reason you decide to quit working on a map, map parts, etc. please consider contributing your abandoned work to the community!
Proof of concepts and appealing results from "just playing around" alike may be interesting for other people to pick up.
To do so just send a private message to a team member (preferably a mission manager like nbohr1more) with all relevant information about your work so far (see format below) and a link where it can be downloaded. Please do not post any download links in this thread. Your work will be archived on one of the Team's TDM servers.
FM's (WIP) Name: ...
Former author(s): ...
Current author(s): (If any)
Status: (free for adoption / in work)
Due Date: (the next date I expect a new WIP version and progress report)
Type: (Mansion, City, Crypt, Wilderness, ...)
Theme: (Gold Heist, Horror, Story Focused, Inventors, ...)
Progress: (Geometry, Details, AI, Gameplay, ... in some rough percentage)
Informations: (anything the authors like to share about the work so far)
How to adopt?
Send a PM to a team member (ideally a mission manager).
If you have already released an FM for TDM then most likely adoption will be granted.
If you have never released an FM it'll be less likely..
If you did release FM's for Thief or a mod for any other game please send details that help us to decide.
If you're the original author you can always pick up your committed work again as long as it is still (or again) "free for adoption".
What do we expect from authors who did adopt assets?
All former authors must be given credit upon release.
You may like to use the unfinished assets the way you like: use parts in your own map or continue finishing the abandoned map.
We and the former authors have to trust anyone given responsibility of the assets of a possibly already superb unfinished map.
We all know that it sometimes happens that people cannot continue a work for various reasons (if so, please PM the team member), lose interest or in the worst case just disappear! In this case, or if we try to contact you for a status update and do not hear from you in a reasonable amount of time, we will offer the map again for adoption to someone else who might want to finish the FM.
We hope to see some great unfinished works being worked on again and completed.
So, fellow authors ... contribute your unfinished work
List of Abandoned Works
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Please check the wiki for details of abandoned work free for adoption and adopted maps:
https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Abandoned_Works