Announcing Thief: The Dark Project 20th Anniversary Contest - Nov 30, 2018 - by Yandros
Grandmauden on 25/12/2018 at 17:03
Phew! 24 days, 24 missions played and completed! Thanks a million to everyone who put so much time and effort into crafting these works of art! :D
And now I'm supposed to rate and assign scores to these missions?! Many of these are masterpieces in their own right. I don't know if I could even single out a favorite among them.
On a side note, I must be losing my touch. For a significant number of the contest missions, I ended up missing ~1000 of the total loot. :P
LostCitizen on 25/12/2018 at 18:16
Quote Posted by Grandmauden
On a side note, I must be losing my touch. For a significant number of the contest missions, I ended up missing ~1000 of the total loot. :P
You are not the only one!
I would also like to express my gratitude to everyone who contributed to this fantastic contest. I must say, I am a slow player. I am currently only in the middle of 5th mission played and I hope I will be able to play all of them until the end of the contest.
Curious to hear since there are so many missions, how did you decide the order of play? Alphabetic? Random (I used random number generator)? Author preferences?
Grandmauden on 26/12/2018 at 00:55
Quote Posted by LostCitizen
Curious to hear since there are so many missions, how did you decide the order of play? Alphabetic? Random (I used random number generator)? Author preferences?
I chose the missions pretty much at random. I would download three missions at a time based on whether the title sounded interesting, then select which one to play on any given night based on the mission's file size and description, as well as how much free time I had. Once all those missions were complete, I would go back and pick the next three. I also started with my own entry, mostly because I wanted to finally relax and enjoy the fruits of my labors.
radogoal on 26/12/2018 at 07:59
how many FM took part at this contest ? 23 like mentioned in the first posting?
BlackJack16 on 30/12/2018 at 02:55
Quote Posted by LostCitizen
Curious to hear since there are so many missions, how did you decide the order of play? Alphabetic? Random (I used random number generator)? Author preferences?
Having a great time playing these missions and decided to play them in filesize order - smallest file to largest.
Thanks to southquarter for hosting and making it easy to order the missions!
And a huge thanks to all the authors and helpers for making these FMs... I'm having a thiefing good time over the Xmas/New Year break!
klatremus on 31/12/2018 at 06:27
Quote Posted by LostCitizen
Curious to hear since there are so many missions, how did you decide the order of play? Alphabetic? Random (I used random number generator)? Author preferences?
I did exactly what you did. :)
john9818a on 2/1/2019 at 23:38
I didn't know Anonymous made fan missions! :joke:
I'm about half way through the total list of contest missions and I can say that I am thoroughly impressed with all of them. :D
downwinder on 3/1/2019 at 03:45
i will go further and say this is the best results any contest had in my view
will be interesting to see results of thief 2 20th anniversary contest
yes dewdrop can appear in thief 2 contest for all those who don't know :)
The Mike on 4/1/2019 at 18:38
Well, I know what I'M doing all weekend.
Question from a very dumb person: why am I not seeing any of my sweet bloom effects? It's been a while since I've played Thief 1 and messed around with cam_ext. Can anyone tell me EXACTLY how it has to look for bloom to show up? I feel like I forgot to delete a semicolon somewhere...
bassoferrol on 4/1/2019 at 21:48
Quote Posted by The Mike
Well, I know what I'M doing all weekend.
Question from a very dumb person: why am I not seeing any of my sweet bloom effects? It's been a while since I've played Thief 1 and messed around with cam_ext. Can anyone tell me EXACTLY how it has to look for bloom to show up? I feel like I forgot to delete a semicolon somewhere...
; enable postprocessing (bloom)
postprocess 1
; bloom intensity factor, default is 5
bloomscale 5