Christmas Gift: From The Dark Mod Team

[New Horizon]

Seasons Greetings Taffers!

 

New Horizon here to spread Holiday Cheer on behalf of The Dark Mod team. Our members have all been working especially hard since the release of the Doom 3 SDK on October 15th, 2004. We are delighted with the thought of bringing an alternative Thief Style gaming experience to your Windows and Linux PC's.

 

For anyone not familiar with Dark Mod, here is a little bit about us.

 

Dark Mod aims to release an Editing Toolset to the fan community by way of the Doom 3 editor. This will be accomplished by performing a total conversion of the Doom 3 Editing tools into a Stealth oriented gaming platform, inspired by Looking Glass Studios "Thief" series.This will allow the community to begin producing "Thief" Style fan missions with plenty of variety in models and equipment to choose from. In other words, you makes thems Sneaksie missions as youse seesie fits to makes thems!

 

Darkmod will include a few example missions with the Editors release to help explain the documentation. At a later date you should see either a campaign or series of stand alone missions from us to further demonstrate the possibilites of Dark Mod.

 

Now, before I get to the surprise I want to answer a few questions that have been sent our way recently.

 

1. Is there a 3rd person view? Third person is not supported at this time, we wish to provide a solid first person gaming experience. This does not rule out the possibility of it being added at a later date, but our primary goal is to create a solid gaming platform first!

 

2. Is wall flattening included? As of this writing, it's being considered.

 

3. Will you have a central hub for missions, like the city in TDS? Since we will initially be releasing a toolset this will likely not be the case. Fan Mission builders may end up creating this on their own, or you may see one in a later release. While we do not dismiss TDS as a source for inspiration our primary guidance comes from

the Looking Glass Thief games.

 

4. Are there more movement speeds beyond Run, Walk, Creep? Too early to say yet really. We do want to explore other options as we're not bound by Thief rules, but at the same time we want to retain a certain familiarity.

 

5. What equipment from TDS will be included/not included? You will see the basic toolset or variations thereof...plus a few surprises. Oh and YES, that does include rope arrows!

 

6. Swimmable water? Yes.

 

Now, on to the surprise.

 

This surprise has been worked on in secret for several weeks by our member of many talents Tyrot and our equally talented Lead coder Sparkhawk, who wrote the concept for what you are about to see. Everyone on the team has worked extremely hard since we came together and I am proud to have watched our team grow stronger and more focussed as the months have passed.

 

The work of many talented team members has been put to excellent use for this present. I hope you all enjoy this gift to the community as much as we have. Happy Holidays YOU TAFFERS!! This one is for you.

 

DARK MOD TEASER TRAILER

 

DARK MOD HI-RES TEASER

 

You will need the XVID codec to view this presentation.

Edited January 4, 2005 by sparhawk

[Hippo]

Impressive.

 

Sounds exactly like the Thief games, which is a good thing.

Is there a high quality version of the vid? I would like to have one, if possible.

 

Happy you know what!

[New Horizon]

Impressive.

 

Sounds exactly like the Thief games, which is a good thing.

Is there a high quality version of the vid? I would like to have one, if possible.

 

Happy you know what!

Hi res link has been added.

[Hippo]

*Downloading*

/me thanks!

[Xen]

Hi!

 

I'm a big Thief-fan from Hungary and I was happy to see that you guys started this project. (And hopefully you will finish it too. )

I downloaded the teaser and I'm very impressed!

Good luck!

 

Xen

[DraVen]

Holy Crap! Thats better than most the adverts for games on TV! Awesome work! Permit me to drool

[sparhawk]

I'm a big Thief-fan from Hungary and I was happy to see that you guys started this project.

You might be glad to hear that we even have an hungerian modeler on board.

[sparhawk]

It's been done. I liked it better the 1st time I played this boring-ass game when it was called ... yes, THIEF.

Well. It seems interesting enough that you even cared to watch our site and post. If something is SOOOOOOOO boring, then I wonder why you comment at all.

 

And if you wanted just to piss us off then I must say I have seen better trolls. Go on TTLG and learn a lesson or two from Aditya or other trolls. You might learn something there.

 

Troll rating: 1/10

 

*YAWNNNNNNNNN*

[mrDischarged]

[oDDity]

Lol, Adyita's signed up here now as well. What a total weirdo.

[Guest IEHOVA]

*YAWNNNNNNNNN*

It's been done. I liked it better the 1st time I played this boring-ass game when it was called ... yes, THIEF.

Talk about thieves, could you BEEEEEEEE any more of a ripoff?

 

Borrrrrrrrrrrrring.

Before you go spouting off about "let's see you do better", I can, have, and always will, so FUCK you.

Get Off The Fucking Planet Asshole!

[Renzatic]

Our first troll! *pops the champaign*

 

We're moving up in the world folks, when you've got trolls and flamers you know you're drawing some attention! WOOHOO!

[New Horizon]

*YAWNNNNNNNNN*

It's been done. I liked it better the 1st time I played this boring-ass game when it was called ... yes, THIEF.

Talk about thieves, could you BEEEEEEEE any more of a ripoff?

 

Borrrrrrrrrrrrring.

 

Before you go spouting off about "let's see you do better", I can, have, and always will, so FUCK you.

 

The only difference between Trolls on the ION forums and this one is that I won't be so tolerant here. This is a board for constructive, cooperative, community interaction. Please, don't post such drivel here....it's not becoming of the community I respect.

 

I will leave our friends post in the quote above as an example of what not to post. Feel free to criticize, but for heavens sake do so intelligently.

 

ZAP. GONE

[Guest Airon - Team Terminator]

Nice soundwork on the trailer. I'd tone down the screechy guitars, if that's what they were .

 

Looking forward to what you're going to come up with. I'm a fan of the Thief series.

 

Airon

Truecombat.com Sound Designer

[Guest Magmy]

Erm...That was a trailer? Besides the fact that I know when it started and what the mod is called, I didn't see anything too great. I was hoping to see a different HUD, or a few models in game or something like that. All I saw was concept art (Like Doom 2 did with the Spider Demon) and a few levels that reminded me vividly of PainKiller (Town and Trainstation levels)

 

Okay, you can make a movie but...Well I spose I'm a purist but I'd prefer to see some real action and completion on a mod before something like a trailer comes out.

 

Because seriously, if a movie made a trailer with a few shots of the movie sets with pictures of the actors that were going to be in it...Who would go and see it?

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Except that's exactly what teaser trailers do, and that's exactly what this is.

Edited December 28, 2004 by god_is_my_goldfish

[Springheel]

Anytime you want to stop posting here, Aditya, that'd be swell. Of course, it you have nothing better to do...well, that's just sad.

[New Horizon]

Erm...That was a trailer?

TEASER-Trailer.

[sparhawk]

Lol, Adyita's signed up here now as well. What a total weirdo.

I don't think we should bash Aditya here for several reasons.

 

1) W edon't know that it is him, and considering the posting stile it doesn't really sound like him. More like a 8 year old 3771 haxor who wants to be "cewl".

 

2) Even though Aditya is not an expert in politness, I have the impression that he likes the darkmod and anticipate it.

 

3) We should keep a professional position even with those who might disagree. We can't please everybody anyway, and an every forum and newsgroup there is always the occasional troll. It's not something special to us, so we shouldn't get sidetracked by that and accept it as something unavoidable.

[Guest Magmy]

I give up on this mod. I kindly came here and nicely said how I didn't understand why you had to make a movie with the minimal amount of work done, and all I receive are two deleted posts by a group of nothing less than pricks. So bent that anything said in a negative way about their mod is trolling/flaming/etc.

 

Look, I was excited when I found out a mod team released a trailer...I was like "whoo, maybe I can see something pretty." And when I saw what was done I was completely turned off for what was completed. I'm sorry you can't accept that fact and you must delete my posts, so have a nice day.

 

keep up your "professional position," but the only mod team that I've ever encountered that kept up one would be the kind Natural Selection Mod team.

[Fingernail]

Someone deleted posts?

 

If so, I can only apologise. However, I also must stand by the decision of my fellow moderators and simply say: if they deemed the content unsuitable, then I trust their decision and stand by it.

 

Are you inviting us to start acting like yourself?

[sparhawk]

I give up on this mod. I kindly came here and nicely said how I didn't understand why you had to make a movie with the minimal amount of work done, and all I receive are two deleted posts by a group of nothing less than pricks.

I don't know if your posts have been deleted. Personally I don't agree to delete ANY postings except when it has to be done for legal reasons (like postings links to childporn or similar stuff).

The post that has been deleted, and that I know about (still not agreeing but I can understand it) has been quoted in full above. As you can see from the quoting it was just useless drivel.

Your post seems to be still intact so I don't understand your problem apart from the unfortunate fact that it is in the same thread. Because of the deletion of the offending posting, it now might look that we were answering to your post, which is exactly one of the reasons why I don't agree to deleting such postings in the first place.

[_Atti_]

And when I saw what was done I was completely turned off for what was completed.

 

the teaser doesnt fully represent the completion of the mod..did you beleive all we have is in that teaser?

you cant even see any of my works in it while in fact i have made dozens of models since my join..

 

soo as we allways told the public back at MEMod...

 

Wait and see...

[New Horizon]

Sorry guys, but I only deleted 1 post and I quoted it fully above. As for the other one, I didn't see it. Like I said, there is no place for such useless postings in this forum. Criticism is certainly welcome, but don't resort to harshness and profanity. It just breeds ill spirits all around.

[New Horizon]

I give up on this mod. I kindly came here and nicely said how I didn't understand why you had to make a movie with the minimal amount of work done, and all I receive are two deleted posts by a group of nothing less than pricks. So bent that anything said in a negative way about their mod is trolling/flaming/etc.

 

Look, I was excited when I found out a mod team released a trailer...I was like "whoo, maybe I can see something pretty." And when I saw what was done I was completely turned off for what was completed. I'm sorry you can't accept that fact and you must delete my posts, so have a nice day.

 

keep up your "professional position," but the only mod team that I've ever encountered that kept up one would be the kind Natural Selection Mod team.

I hadn't seen a post prior to the one I removed, and then quoted as an example. If that was in response to a previous criticism that had been removed then I must also stand by that decision. As you can see from other posts, we don't censor criticism and in fact I do not believe in censorship at all. You are more than welcome here at anytime to offer criticism, but please try to do so in a constructive fashion.