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The Dark Mod 15th Anniversary Contest!

To celebrate our 15th year, we are holding a fan mission contest!

The Dark Mod 15yr Anniversary Contest

The Dark Mod project trundles onward for it’s 15th year in a row. In that time we have improved our game engine in countless ways and have grown to over 170 missions!

To celebrate our perseverance and the years of improvements to come, we are hosting a contest to mark 15 years since the 1.0 release!

 

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Now is your time to demonstrate the mission design that best exemplifies your personal style and capabilities! Please consider entering this event!

Unlike most recent contests, there is no defined theme and we are simply going to score based on our standard metrics of Story, Gameplay, and Visuals with our standard weighted scoring:

Max Possible = Total Votes * 5 (Outstanding)

TotalMaxPointsPoss (TMP) = AllCategoryVotecount(ACV) * 30

Full Weighted Score (FWS) = (Gameplay score*3 + Visual score*2 + Story score) / TMP

 

Contest Submissions should be provided before October 16th so that players can start playing and celebrating on the 17th!

The players have been keen to relay that they would like really creative missions so it may be worthwhile to examine our “Community Unusual Contest” to get an idea about the wild range of possibilities we offer to designers.

Also, since the contest submission is in October, there will probably be an increased desire for Horror themes.

The Dark Mod 2.12 was just released so including new 2.12 features is strongly encouraged.

Finally, it might be nice if authors name their protagonist Corbin to match the included missions.

( None of the above suggestions are requirements for the submissions. )

Please post your intention to enter in this thread. Thank you!

The Poll on this is to demonstrate the intended design used in the mission release threads.

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I’ll throw my hat in the ring! It’d be delightful to create a mission to celebrate TDM’s anniversary, especially after how kindly I was received here. I’m excited to see what creative missions will be produced for the contest with the freedom we’ve been allotted.

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Signing up! I'll be starting from scratch for this one.

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My missions:           Stand-alone                                                      Duncan Lynch series                              

                                      Down and Out on Newford Road              the Factory Heist

                                                                                                  A House Call

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The Poll on this is to demonstrate the intended design used in the mission release threads.

On an offtopic note: I always liked those, also in non-contest missions. Wished every FM author would add them to their mission release threads.

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Nico A.

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Good motivation for me to finally try to make a mission.

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10 hours ago, Nico A. said:

Good motivation for me to finally try to make a mission.

 

Excellent! Happy mapping and I look forward to playing it :)

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My missions:           Stand-alone                                                      Duncan Lynch series                              

                                      Down and Out on Newford Road              the Factory Heist

                                                                                                  A House Call

                                                                                                  The House of deLisle                                                                                                  

                              

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Bikerdude has been coaxed ( nagged? ) into joining the contest.

He'll be using an abandoned old version of The Elixir that doesn't resemble the current mission at all as a base for his entry.

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I'm in, using this as motivation to continue the work I had previously started on my series.  Probably not a whole lot in the way of horror, but I think I have some creative elements in the pipeline...

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Okay, you fellow taffers.

I'm not promising anything amazing, but I'll give it a try. 🙂

I'd prefer to leave the Corbin-focused missions to Springheel and the rest of the main Corbin FM authors.

I'll use the contest as an excuse to work on that FM I was preparing for my Partners in Crime series.

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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)

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13 hours ago, Petike the Taffer said:

Okay, you fellow taffers.

I'm not promising anything amazing, but I'll give it a try. 🙂

I'd prefer to leave the Corbin-focused missions to Springheel and the rest of the main Corbin FM authors.

I'll use the contest as an excuse to work on that FM I was preparing for my Partners in Crime series.

@SpringheelSpeaking of Springheel - I wonder if he will manage to join the contest. I pretty much liked his first map back in the day. I am curious to see what he could do now with all his cool model asset modules.

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"Einen giftigen Trank aus Kräutern und Wurzeln für die närrischen Städter wollen wir brauen." - Text aus einem verlassenen Heidenlager

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When is the last day to turn it in? I just got started with Dark Radiant again, so I don't know how long it would take me. But I'm happy to Beta-test them :) 

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16 minutes ago, Acolytesix said:

When is the last day to turn it in? I just got started with Dark Radiant again, so I don't know how long it would take me. But I'm happy to Beta-test them :) 

October 16th 2024

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Ooohhhhhh, it's twitching in the build intenstine, as we say in Sweden (or do we? :D)

 

I'm quite eager to create something. But they're releasing new skaven models for Age of Sigmar 4 this summer... And I have a 2 year old... And work... And a girlfriend... And too little time... 

 

I will try to create something at least. If I run out of time, I'll run out of time; then I at least have built something that can be released after the contest... 

 

Count me in, with the caveat that I may pull out before deadline...! 

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To reciprocate TDM's inclusion in the TDS 20yr contest I offered the TTLG community the chance to join using T1 \2 or TDS entries. At the last minute it seems that we have one interested T2 mapper who is considering remaking a TDM mission in T2. A little late in the game but we can cross our fingers for this entrant to join the celebration.

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Well drat, I'm unfortunately going to have to pull out of the contest. The next teaching gig I have coming up just shuffled my schedule around all of a sudden and I've got way more work to do before the new school year begins! I'll keep chipping away at my TDM mission but there's no way it'll be done in time for the contest, so I'll just release it when it's finished. 😔

Best of luck to the other contest entrants though, I'm excited to see what everyone cooks up for TDM's anniversary!

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Sorry to hear that, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing your mission whenever it gets released.

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My missions:           Stand-alone                                                      Duncan Lynch series                              

                                      Down and Out on Newford Road              the Factory Heist

                                                                                                  A House Call

                                                                                                  The House of deLisle                                                                                                  

                              

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As I said, I would join the contest but no guarantees for making the deadline. 

Due to my limited build time and how much time it seems to take for me, to build stuff I have no realistic chance to finish before deadline. As someone said, you cannot enforce art. Yes, I could cut down on some stuff but that would leave a an empty shell of my ambitions and that would kill the purpose of this mission. 

I will trudge on; this mission WILL se a release, but I think more Christmas rather than Halloween. 

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