Paralytik 73 Posted April 4, 2020 Report Share Posted April 4, 2020 Yeah, for sure. I'm impressed by the quality of those mini-documentaries. 1 Quote "My milkshake bringeth all ye gentlefolk to the yard. Verily 'tis better than thine, I would teach thee, but I must levy a fee." "When Kleiner showed me the sky-line of New York I told him that man is like the coral insect—designed to build vast, beautiful, mineral things for the moon to delight in after he is dead." https://soundcloud.com/paralytik Link to post Share on other sites
jaxa 253 Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=The-Dark-Mod-2.08-Released 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lowenz 601 Posted July 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) EDIT: same post of jaxa, LOL! Edited July 1, 2020 by lowenz 4 Quote Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S. Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 316 Posted July 2, 2020 Report Share Posted July 2, 2020 https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/news/the-dark-mod-208-is-here Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
Amadeus 344 Posted July 2, 2020 Report Share Posted July 2, 2020 Looks like 2.08 is getting some love here too: https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-dark-mod-v2-08-released-now-fully-supports-opengl-3-3-glsl-improves-cpu-multi-core-support/ 1 Quote FMs: A Good Neighbor Link to post Share on other sites
Petike the Taffer 513 Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 PC Gamer coverage for 2.08: https://www.pcgamer.com/free-thief-like-game-the-dark-mod-updates-with-graphical-revamps/ 1 Quote Female player character vocals (current mini-project, help/advice appreciated) Slovak localisation for TDM (my project) What I'm up to (sporadic updates) Stuff I've worked on at the wiki Partners in Crime (my FM series, in development) Link to post Share on other sites
madtaffer 1 Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Is there an estimated time of arrival for 2.09 ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
grayman 2968 Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 On 9/17/2020 at 3:01 AM, madtaffer said: Is there an estimated time of arrival for 2.09 ? Not yet. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stgatilov 1129 Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 On 9/17/2020 at 2:01 PM, madtaffer said: Is there an estimated time of arrival for 2.09 ? The current plan is to start 2.09 beta in December 2020. Keep in mind that we planned to start 2.08 beta in December 2019 too 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
esme 149 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 TDM is in El Reg https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/26/linux_game_development_scene/ 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post AluminumHaste 1052 Posted January 4 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 4 Relevant part: Quote First-person stealth game The Dark Mod (TDM) also uses open-source code. The project, which runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS, began as a mod for Doom 3 and still uses the engine from original creator id Software. "id Software had a record of both supporting Linux in their games as well as open-sourcing them after they were reaching their commercial end-of-life," says "Greebo", an Austria-based developer who has worked on The Dark Mod project since 2006. He is part of a team of volunteers who keep adding new features to the game. "Doom 3 just had [Linux support], but it was a team agreement to keep supporting it. TDM was lucky to have one or two Linux developers among them who made sure the game was still working on their platform," he says. Maintaining that support for the estimated 10 per cent of TDM users running Linux is a challenge, though. "If you stop thinking about a platform build, support is dropped sooner or later." It helps that the Doom 3 code is so polished. "It didn't rely on a lot of external libraries, maybe for exactly that reason of having their code compiling on every platform," says Greebo. "So when you need to link against a new library (eg to load a new video file format), you have to keep in mind that it has to be available on the other platforms too." 5 Quote I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather. Link to post Share on other sites
Zerg Rush 22 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 In another forum where I made it known, Linux users were delighted with TDM, because the offer of games for this OS is not exactly overwhelming, in this field Windows rules and OSS games are usually quite crappy, while TDM really is comparable in quality to many commercial games. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MirceaKitsune 249 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 3 hours ago, Zerg Rush said: In another forum where I made it known, Linux users were delighted with TDM, because the offer of games for this OS is not exactly overwhelming, in this field Windows rules and OSS games are usually quite crappy, while TDM really is comparable in quality to many commercial games. I can definitely add to this. I ditched Windows 8 years ago, haven't had it on my system since... still can't believe how long I lived on it till finally making this choice. Indeed the only issue is some games being harder to play, especially newer ones as old ones typically work fine under WINE. I didn't notice it much as I rarely touch commercial games any more; Unlike free projects like TDM, which are made by the community and we can fully edit, I don't feel those truly belong to us rather that some company who makes boring stuff just so we give it our money. We must not forget that TDM isn't just the only FOSS game of its genre: It's one of the only projects with AAA assets and graphics... albeit by 2010's standards, but in my book I would still call them that. Alongside it and Xonotic, most open-source games have pretty cheap assets and a lot of bugs unfortunately... TDM however has long achieved commercial quality, and for something remarkably complex in its core design and the features required. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jaxa 253 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 No TDM mentions in the El Reg comment section yet. ;`( Quote Link to post Share on other sites
esme 149 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 You could add one @jaxa Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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