Announcing: The Crucible of Omens, a campaign for The Dark Mod

[Obsttorte]

We live in time of crowdfunding, don't see a problem to resurrect project with some money infusion.

People didn't start working on the campaign for money and they didn't stopped to because of it. As Melan already said, it's a time and energy consuming effort and people are doing this in their freetime beneath all the real life stuff they have to care about. I can't really see how crowdfunding would help here

[Noordung]

If i understand correctly maps are finished but you need readables? So why not make a contest? Make a topic.Lets say "diary of a poor citizen" and you put the best one in campaign. Since nobody have much details about campaign they still could not see whole story.

[Melan]

No, it is not a question of readables - rather, a mixture of architecture, scripted sequences, readables, patrol routes, objective work... A host of individually smaller tasks which mostly require familiarity with the project, plus someone to coordinate it (this is also a big thing). We have had people jumping in, doing some work, then dropping out again. Hard to say how we could resolve the problem.

[Petike the Taffer]

Sorry to hear that. If I could help, I definitely would. Pity there isn't much of a possibility for me to help speed up the development process on this campaign. It would be awesome if it was finished one day.

 

If I may ask, how much of the campaign is finished at this point, expressed in percents ? Just curious.

Edited February 28, 2015 by Petike the Taffer

[vorob]

Any news on this one? Maybe plan to ressurect it or forward partly done work to other fanmakers? Thx!

p.s. any big campagn planned from other developers? 

[chakkman]

I think it's safe to say that The Crucible of Omens campaign won't happen.

Edited January 10, 2020 by chakkman

[demagogue]

I think the wip maps were put up for adoption. Some of them were adopted for the campaign to begin with.

I scripted a big campaign that really excites me, just called The Dark Campaign. Basically it opens with a siege of Bridgeport from the Jazirats (the Arab/Abassids equivalent), and the player is Pakdamani (Persian/Zoroastrin equivalent), which is Jazirat territory (but his ancestors left for Bridgeport to escape persecution) but most people in Bridgeport don't know the difference, so he's kept in the Jazirat quarter which is closed off like a ghetto. So the first mission, the player has to break out of the ghetto and try to escape the city (I like the image of flaming boulders from Jazirat catapults striking buildings as he's sneaking down streets to get out). But on the way out he gets tangled up in the battle preparations and things get complicated. 

But then again I script & map out FMs all the time. I probably have dozens of maps drawn out & stories written. It's the building part that's the trick!

[Melan]

It's dead, Jim.

[Springheel]