Mapping out The City. - by Digital Nightfall
demagogue on 14/6/2012 at 23:12
Haha, you know how we think. That was pretty cool. Totally itches that craving in me when I was young and would just draw maps. Making almost a game or almost a spiritual ritual out of it was what made this more interesting than usual.
Doc_Brown on 15/6/2012 at 17:25
Huh, it's kind of like that 10-year Civ II game...
bikerdude on 15/6/2012 at 18:36
Quote Posted by Solabusca
Just thought I'd post this for my fellow MotC crazy-folks:
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http://www.wimp.com/samemap/)
[video]http://www.wimp.com/samemap/[/video]
Those links were brilliant..
Mugla on 21/6/2012 at 10:30
So we still have plenty of time to finish ours.
jtr7 on 31/12/2012 at 11:45
Beautiful work! Looks like a labor of love for the creators.
Doc_Brown on 7/3/2013 at 15:53
Just for those who haven't heard, it seems that the next Thief game will be a (
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/05/thief-4-coming-in-2014) reboot. So it looks like we can forget about gleaning any useful cartographic info from it for
this project. :erg:
On the other hand, we may be starting over again with a whole new iteration of the map for this new version of The City... :sweat:
jtr7 on 7/3/2013 at 16:45
Good to see you popping in! Hiya!
Why would T4 even take precedence within this project? Separately, sure, especially driven by new enthusiasm, excitement, passion, and inspiration from that other new experience, but a thousand FMs weren't made with T4 in mind, and some of them, and fanfiction, were made using what we've all contributed here. Every few months I get a person asking me for a copy of the herewego map. I don't know who else has been asked or who found it on their own, but I can't be the only one. If this one could just be finalized, and the new one can be built cannibalizing what T4 doesn't account for, if it's even compatible, it'd just ease things and get things done. Look how long it took to shoehorn the old games into and around T3's City. If this map won't be finalized, I'd kinda like it to be officially abandoned. If someone comes out of the woodwork and decides to do it after the fact, great!
We know that EM has the TDS design docs, and one ex-LGS on the writing team, but no word on old Thief materials. We never saw that original map, unless the Talisman Map was the original afterall, which they quickly and thoroughly outgrew and didn't hold to.
Doc_Brown on 7/3/2013 at 17:18
Quote Posted by jtr7
Why would T4 even take precedence within this project?
It wouldn't. What I meant by 'starting all over again' was that someone may want to cobble together a map representing The City just as depicted in Thief 4 (assuming they don't provide a complete map to begin with). As a reboot, it shouldn't have any affect on the work we've already done, nor vice versa.
Quote Posted by jtr7
If this map won't be finalized, I'd kinda like it to be officially abandoned.
Is it not finalized? I was under the impression that we'd gone as far as we could barring further official info--something that isn't going to happen now that we know Thief 4 has nothing to do with the original trilogy. As before, the only step left is an artistic rendering of the basic blueprint we devised.
Honestly, at this point I'm probably willing to just commission someone to do it. Know anyone?
jtr7 on 7/3/2013 at 17:22
Man, if I knew who, and knew how to pay them, it would be done. The finalizing I speak of is that artistic rendering. (One of the TDS missions is actually incorrect, I found, too). We also were hoping to fit in some FMs, and make a layered interactive map. None of us wanting these eventuals is up to it, or knows anyone. :erg:
