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I was surprised to see no acknowledgement of the 5 year anniversary of the release of TDM (or maybe I just missed it). I know the mod has been around in other forms longer than that, but I always think of the day that TDM was first released to the public with the training mission, Chalice of Kings, Crown of Penitence, and The Outpost to be the official date.

 

Fun to go back and read this thread too:

http://www.ttlg.com/...ad.php?t=129171

 

Anyway, Happy Anniversary TDM. Here's to the next 5 years (and beyond)...

 

Edit: I would help if I would have mentioned the actual date! October 17th, 2009.

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Wow, and what a journey it was. From TD Demo to SL Demo to first public release to stand-alone and nowadays to gfx engine upgrades.

 

Massive respect and a big round of applause to everyone involved and the whole community around them. Special cheers go out to Springheel, who has been around and continously contributing like a beast since what feels like forever!! :-)

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Special cheers go out to Springheel, who has been around and continously contributing like a beast since what feels like forever!! :-)

 

Thanks. :) Hard to believe it's been that long already.

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Where does the time go?!?! I remember playing St. Lucia for the first like it was Yesterday. It completely took my breath away just like the first time I played T1. Many thanks to everyone who made this amazing mod possible. Everyone from the TDM team to the people who support TDM by playing it's FMs.

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A big thanks and round of applause to The Dark Mod team and the Thief fan mission makers for the huge amount of effort that has gone into making the TDM one of the best computer game mods ever! :) Personally, I think the only thing that really compares with it in fps game mods is the Black Mesa Half-Life 1 recreation mod for Half-Life 2, and that's saying something. :)

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Oh wow, has it been so long already? I still remember the first samples of Thief's Den and how it showed us suddenly that if we wanted to release something to the public, we actually would have to start working on silly things like functional menus :D

 

Happy Anniversary everyone!

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Congratulations and thank you for bringing this game to us.

This project is a labour of love, an artistic view, continuation of the life and soul of what was most dear to us in the old Thief series. You will never be forgotten.

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It all seems unreal, somehow. Has it already been five years?

 

Time sure flies.

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Thanks for bringing the anniversary into light. It brings a lot of memories, like when I first stumbled upon TDM in video from Training mission some 3 years ago... I was really struck! It looked like original thief but with better graphics and more interactive. I thought that to make it nicer would somehow be wrong (and I'm happy to be wrong about it). And by playing Tears of St. Lucia I became definitely a fan. Great years so far... ;)

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I don't know the mod for that loing, but the development that has taken lace the last couple of years is definetely amazing. Under 1.07, I couldn't play TDM under Windows fluidly, but under Linux, God knows why. Under 1.08 this issue was solved. And than ....

 

 

 

 

BOOOOOOOOOM

 

2.0, standalone released. :)

 

Whatever will happen to TDM in the future, it will be be amazing, that's for sure.

 

Happy anniversary TDM. :wub:

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