For those of you that care to visit moddb, I prodded the administrator to update the profiles. They were quite lacking, and had some misinformation too. He was all quick to address it and I was quite pleased. So I thank INtense for his work in updating the profiles.:) My philosophy is, the more ways you can spread thief, the better! (so why not do it on moddb too, as lots of people go there for video games.)
He just recently updated them because I had private messaged him about the profiles. There's also some information that moddb members can post, such as their own images and videos, so I'll try to update the pages a tad myself.
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QuadX Oct 27 2008, 9:07pm says: hello, I am a fanatic who loves the thief series, and in searching for thief on moddb, I found the Dark Project page. Is there any chance of updating it? If not, would you be able to allow me to modify it?
INtense! Oct 27 2008, 9:15pm says:Sure I can update it, just tell me what you'd like changed and i'll do it.
QuadX 18hours 59mins ago says:
Awesome. Hold on to your seat, I've got a lot to add to it.
Under Summary tab:
First off, the engine is the Dark Engine. Right now it says "unknown." I see the "official homepage" is a wikipedia article. I think this should be changed to a better page. While the official page for TDP is gone, I think one of the best "non-official" fansites to be used as the weblink on the MODDB page is Thief-thecircle.com Its got tons and tons of informatio: patches, downloads, etc. As far as I know, I believe the release date is actually november 30th, 1998.
Check this out: En.wikipedia.org You could get a lot of information from there. The genre is not real time strategy, it's "First Person Sneaker" as the Devs liked to call it :) Well, it's actually an Action Adventure/FPS game; not sure if that's the official genre though. The game is strictly singleplayer only. (Trivia: The game actually USED to be Real Time Strategy, but it was changed.) Theme I guess could be "medeival steampunk"
I think that's it, as the other stuff I appear to be able to add myself (such as features and whanot, though I'm not clear on how to actually do some of this stuff. I don't understand what a "feature" is. I thought it would just be a simple text list of features of the game, which is what I was thinking, but instead it's some sort of upload form.
Thanks for your help,
Quad
QuadX 18hours 49mins ago says: Oh, I should add... I wonder if there should be two separate entries for thief the dark project and thief gold, or if they should just stay on the same profile page? I realize that there is lots of information on other websites, but I figure what better way to spread the joy of thief with hundreds or thousands of moddb members? I think information should be shared on one page, and then any additional information can be linked to, like wikipedia which has a lot of information on the game. I think the Thief II: The Metal Age profile should be updated too.
INtense! 4hours 32mins ago says:you will be pleased to add I have totally revamped the thief profiles.
I don't believe there is any need to add thief gold, we tend to keep profiles merged for simplicity.
