Aemanyl on 14/10/2018 at 20:50
I hope that everyone is excited about Thief TDP Anniversary Contest as much as I am. But the other day I was thinking about ideas for a possible Thief Gold Anniversary contest in 2019.
The idea behind this contest would be to create a fan mission inspired by OM's introduced in Thief: Gold. The participants in this context would be able to pick one of the following themes:
- The Criminals. The participant is required to make a fan mission related to thieves, criminals, and Downwind Thieves' Guild. May or may not include some of the following factors: sewers, slums, the Downwinders, jail, Basso, Cutty, City Watch, burglary, petty thieves, horizontal/underground setting, corrupt nobles, gambling, illegitimate shops and fences, Garrett's daily/nightly life.
- Mages. The participant is required to make a fan mission related to the Hand Brotherhood and mages. May or may not include some of the following factors: mages, elemental magic, towers, elemental level design (do you remember Rowena's Curse?), elemental foes (e.g. spiders and bugbeasts in Earth areas), extensive use of elemental crystals, necromancy, libraries, traps.
- Art and Entertainment. The participant is required to make a fan mission inspired by the cultural aspect of Song of the Caverns OM. May or may not include some of the following factors: art, exhibition, museum, opera, theatre, music, musical puzzles, singing, paintings etc.
What do you think?
downwinder on 14/10/2018 at 21:09
i would like to see something done with the 3 extra mission from thief gold as they all felt so empty in om game
but also i would rather see a thief 2 ,20 year contest and give them a bit over a year to make something special,cause dewdrop would be there :)
downwinder on 14/10/2018 at 21:24
but i would love to see a rework of song of the caverns as the om version was empty to me the caves were bare and plain only 1-2 areas with anything below,one trap room and on area with some loot then the guy singing best part of underground,then above ground it was way to plain for me considering what missions should be
i think they needed to hire cardia to build the song of caverns map above ground his art and design skills for that mission would have been epic and his music choices are real good to give you a feeling like no other
i sometimes wonder if thief had a mmo how fast it would make me homeless lmao :P
downwinder on 14/10/2018 at 21:28
you would be better to have it based on themes of the extra 3 missions only so,"the downwind thieves guild","mages", and upperclass auldale types :P"
but you nailed it pretty close
may cutty rest in peace remember he passed away in crags cleft prison those damn hammers
fortuni on 15/10/2018 at 01:45
Seeing we gave authors one whole year to build their missions for the TDP anniversary contest maybe we should also give them one whole year for the T2 anniversary contest and that game was released in Feb 2000, so that means we should launch the start of the contest build in Feb 2019, which doesn't really give much of an opportunity for a TG contest to fit in between the current contest and when authors will start building their T2 anniversary missions.
Maybe a better question is how are we going the celebrate the 20th anniversary of T2.
My suggestion would be to allow authors to go completely over the top by showing off the abilities of Newdark.
The T1 anniversary contest does not allow any custom objects etc, so as a way of celebrating how far this game has travelled in 20 years why not give authors a whole year to build the most fabulous looking missions stuffed to the brim with shiney new models etc.
I'm not saying we should not celebrate TG, but it also probably an good idea for authors to have a discussion soon about how we will celebrate the T2 anniversary.
Calibrator on 15/10/2018 at 15:40
I agree with the last comment. T2 is much more important than TG with its three additional missions.
TG to me(!) is simply what T1 should have been and nothing more, nothing "separate".
As a player I'd rather see something like a contest with missions that don't feature the "normal Thief universe" but rather modern worlds, scifi-worlds, western worlds, Roman world etc. (something like a version of "Westworld" - at least like the old movie, haven't seen the series, yet).
That would give the authors room for creativity and their personal touch and players variety.
McTaffer on 15/10/2018 at 16:01
I've been treating the current contest as being both T1 and TG. There's a lot of TG DNA in our mission already.
Yandros on 15/10/2018 at 17:02
I agree with all of the above, TG is included in the T1 anniversary contest and if we do one next year, it should definitely be a T2 anniversary contest.
vfig on 15/10/2018 at 20:31
I've made use of a lot of TG content in my contest mission: I've got thieves; I'm using the hermit model (though not the voice; Raoul is so uniquely tied to Song of the Caverns that I don't think he fits elsewhere) and the opera guest models. The opera house guard models with their vivid uniforms are a specific faction too. Not to mention the TG textures, which I've used in many places. My mission would be a lot poorer if TG content weren't permitted in the contest.
Aemanyl on 16/10/2018 at 09:10
You are right guys, sorry for bothering you, just wanted to throw in some of my ideas.
