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I have so much sympathy for actual medieval architects sometimes. This is a whole page of freak mistakes they just built around hoping no one would notice too much. https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/great-mistakes-in-english-medieval-architecture/

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A Hungarian firm specializing in digital 3D reconstructions of historical buildings and landscapes. Lots of images of old Hungarian castles and chateaus with many details and design ideas based on rea

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I have so much sympathy for actual medieval architects sometimes. This is a whole page of freak mistakes they just built around hoping no one would notice too much. https://stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/great-mistakes-in-english-medieval-architecture/

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What's wrong with angry owl?! It looks... Do we worship for sure Christ here? I don't want Spanish Inquisition again.

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Melan

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I build all of my maps like that.

 

"Whooops, I totally screwed this. It has bad proportions, and looks absolutely ridiculous, but it'd be too tiresome to scrap it and restart from scratch. Oh well, let's see what I can do."

(...three weeks of building later...)

"There, fixed it."

(fitfteen minutes later)

"I wonder if I could pull that off. No way this could ever backfire."

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

Melan

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Pont Audemer, Normandy.

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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I wonder if RL robbers get through window in such locations... Boat with ladder and long logs with hooks to hang on window frame?

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Bikerdude

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Hmmm one of these days someone will build a 'pure' canal based map where all the action & travel is via the canal network. Im thinking canals instead of streets, sorta like Venice for TDM.

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Crystal Grave was thought in this way at early stage -all buildings in city would be on pillars, so canals would go both behind window/ under sky and under buildings.

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Melan

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That was kinda the plan for the fourth mission that would have ended the story arc I began in Bad Debts and Disorientation. Very tall buildings, canals, ledges and parapets. Basically very similar to how skacky's Endless Rain ended up, except with much more water.

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

demagogue

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One of the later Komag contest FMs was set in a Venice canal. And of course TDM had the idea for a Flood Ward for the first campaign well before Dishonored--you can see it in the early sunk cathedral trailer, the first time the public got to see a water arrow in action--and it's still an official part of Bridgeport, so a legit setting for an FM.

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NeonsStyle

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Amazing 8th century buildings and statues.

 

https://youtu.be/hckJFn7wcv4

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Taquito

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Since the Prison concept was a hit, here are some more concepts just in case someone tries to create a Prison Escape. :P

 

Kleyos:

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Shunding:

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ntora

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wanbao:

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bpsola

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Exterior concepts:

RichardDorran

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Talros

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Melan

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The good old times:

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

Paralytik

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Giger-esque would be more appropriate. I wonder what that game's gameplay will actually be. Seems like a first person puzzle game of some sort.

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grayman

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Back in the dark ages when dinosaurs roamed the planet and I was a young board-gamer, I built a WWII diorama on top of the unused ping-pong table in our basement. The thing was huge, and I remember endless hours of assembling and painting models, molding paper-mache into ravines and hills, and burning holes in tanks and troop carriers with sunlight through a magnifying glass to make them more realistic.

 

The diorama is long gone now, and I stopped making models eons ago. But here's a site that stirs up memories of those long-lost days. Perhaps folks can find inspiration for TDM missions from the various kits these folks (and others like them) create.

 

http://www.tabletop-world.com/index.php

 

 

 

 

NeonsStyle

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That character hanging from the pole up there, how would you do that with a ragdoll? Is it possible to hang them? What about the algerian hook torture? Is that possible? (butchers hook through one side, and out the other and hung face up). Could be interesting drama to add to a level.

I have an eclectic YouTube channel making videos on a variety of games. Come and have look here:

https://www.youtube.com/c/NeonsStyleHD

 

Dark Mod Missions: Briarwood Manor - available here or in game

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18980-fan-mission-briarwood-manor-by-neonsstyle-first-mission-6082017-update-16/

 

 

Dragofer

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Penny Dreadful 2 has hanging ragdolls near the start. Getting anything to hang with physics seems to be unnecessarily complicated to do - afaik you need a custom .af, .def and model. You'd need to study existing setups closely to find out how to get it done.

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