Renault on 21/10/2025 at 21:30

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We've been talking about this over in the Dromed Discord - it's time for a new competition.

Announcing the “End of Year” Speedbuild

Create a fully functioning and playable Thief mission from scratch within the allotted timeframe. All testing done (or not) at your discretion. The competition will run for 10 weeks (plus a few days), starting now.

Entries will be due on January 1st, 2026, CST, by the end of the day. Send them to me and I will post everything on the 1st.

No theme or resource restrictions this time, so you've got everything at your disposal. The only restriction will be size - all entries must be 2000 terrain brushes or less. This is primarily to reel in any overly ambitious authors out there. Here are some recent missions (w/ terrain counts) which are similarly sized to give you an idea of what to shoot for:

Haunt - 1575
Etude of a Street Corner - 1667
Cold Hands, Cold Heart - 1764
Misguided Souls - 1835
Eye of the Sea - 2376

Keep in mind that 2000 terrain brushes is the limit, not the goal. Something smaller is more than welcome too.

For simplicity, all entries for Thief 1/G and Thief 2 only. Nothing against TDM, but they tend to hold their own unique contests, and as far as TDS goes, the author and fanbase for this game is limited. Plus, I have no idea how to translate the terrain limit to these games anyway (but I'm open to ideas if someone is really interested).

No voting, no prizes, no winner. This is all just for fun.

That said, good luck to all. Hoping to get contributions from a good mix of veteran and beginner authors alike. Post any questions you have in this thread.

Aemanyl on 22/10/2025 at 15:39

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Good luck to all the participants! Might be worth pinning this thread so that it doesn't get buried soon.

trefoilknot on 22/10/2025 at 20:16

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So fire up dromed, downwinder!

downwinder on 23/10/2025 at 02:42

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i would have no idea what to do, but thank you for the confidence

A.Stahl on 25/10/2025 at 11:53

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FM authors go brrrrr!