Announcing Thief 2: The Metal Age 20th Anniversary Contest - Mar 23-27, 2020 - by Yandros
mcmike1489 on 27/3/2020 at 09:43
Cool, thanks for letting me know. I do notice that a few of the FMs are downloaded into .7z files instead of .zip files. I did create, extract and put those FMs in the .zip folders to avoid confusion of the file type.
Yandros on 27/3/2020 at 14:01
Any of the modern loaders will install from a .7z file just fine, there's no need to do that.
mcmike1489 on 27/3/2020 at 19:53
Quote Posted by Yandros
Any of the modern loaders will install from a .7z file just fine, there's no need to do that.
Ok, thank you.
Yandros on 28/3/2020 at 02:39
The final two missions I was expecting are now released, giving us a total of 11 submissions! All things considered, it's a strong turnout. I never thought we would duplicate the amazing output of the TDP20AC, and I told skacky from the beginning that if we get 10, I'll be happy and consider the contest a success. Now go play these missions and vote starting tomorrow!
mcmike1489 on 28/3/2020 at 05:11
Awesome, I'll go check them out right now. Happy taffing taffers!:cheeky:
skacky on 28/3/2020 at 05:46
A few words;
First, I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who participated in these two huge, year-long contests. Even if the turnout for this one was half of what we got for the Thief 1 contest, as Yandros said it is still a great turnout that shows that the Thief community is still going strong 22 years after the release of the original game back in 1998. These contests even managed to bring back a few people to DromEd after a long hiatus, such as Melan or Balboa.
Second, I would also like to thank the newcomers who have released their first mission during the contests. This can be intimidating because quite a few big names also entered, but you showed us you weren't afraid to tame the DromEd beast and participate in a friendly competition. I hope to see more missions from you in the future!
Third, I would like to thank Yandros who handled this contest like a pro, since I have taken a backseat compared to the previous one due to various commitments. I would also like to thank Brethren for graciously hosting the missions on Southquarter, and to Al_B for the voting forms which will be made available very soon.
Last, I would like to thank the community at large for encouraging mission authors to carry on with their missions, be it here on the forums or on Discord, etc, and also other people who may rarely post but do contribute a lot to make these contests and fan missions in general more visible to the public (I'm especially thinking of Trevor Whalen who writes for TechRaptor).
These have been two incredible anniversaries to commemorate two incredible games.
Xuio on 28/3/2020 at 09:29
Thank you all for your time and these excellent missions :D
mcmike1489 on 28/3/2020 at 09:38
The next Thief Tafferversary will be the final game in the series excluding Thief (2014) (which didn't even get one single fan mission), Thief Deadly Shadows which will be in 2024 for the 20th anniversary for that game. Unfortunately, that is the least of the Thief games that didn't get a lot of praise or recognition and therefore, we may or may not get any fan missions or a contest going for that game in the Thief franchise, but I will still keep my fingers crossed for something big to happen.
