Brethren on 25/1/2022 at 17:38

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New Dark 10 Year Anniversary Contest

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of New Dark, we're going to hold a contest. Several people contributed and helped to bring this contest to light, including skacky, Supremcee, Yandros, and several others who posted their ideas to the forums.

Here's the idea:

Create a brand new mission for either Thief 1 or 2, heavily inspired by an existing mission from any of the official Thief games.

The initial idea was to create a new mission using one of the original mission's exact objectives, word for word, but we decided in the end that was too limiting. Everyone is still encouraged and welcome to attempt this, but it is not required.

Some examples of missions you could create:

-Steal Bafford's scepter from his snowy, victorian mansion in the countryside.
-Obtain the Talisman of Fire from the molten slopes of the Esse Mountains north of The City.
-Kidnap Cavador from his secret Mechanist laboratory on an island off the coast of Cyric.
-Escape the Crippled Burrick and evade the City Watch over the rainy rooftops of Mourningside.

Definitely feel free to create unique situations in the Thief world that do not exist or that are counter to what the lore or canon is from the existing games. This could also be seen as an “alternate universe” contest as well.

Some background: The New Dark patch was announced on the french forum ariane4ever on September 24th, 2012, and then posted here on the TTLG forums by DrK on the following day, September 25th. The author of the New Dark patch remains a mystery, but several updates have been made and released over the past 10 years and continue to this day. You can see the original post on TTLG here: (https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140085). This patch expanded the limits of what was possible in the Dark Engine and also made the game much easier to play on modern PC hardware.

Now you may ask, what's allowed? Unlike the Thief Anniversary contest which restricted authors to use stock resources, we want to go the other direction this time. Essentially anything goes. New Dark expanded the limits of what Dromed is capable of and what Thief fan missions can be, and we want the contest to reflect that. Use any kind of custom resources you like, make your missions as large as you see fit, and in general strive to do things that couldn't be done in Old Dark.

The official deadline to submit your level is 11:59PM on September 24th, 2022 (Central Standard time in the U.S). The missions will then be released on the following day to commemorate the anniversary here on TTLG.

Make sure to state the name of the mission you are modeling your mission after in your readme file (Hopefully it will be obvious anyway).

Voting will be kept simple this time around, all missions will be rated on an overall scale of 1-10.

Good luck to all!

<Username> on 25/1/2022 at 20:35

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I like the theme of remaking original missions with NewDark engine capabilities. It is similar to the Thief Reloaded Contests from 2010 and 2012.

Quoting the Thief Reloaded Contest objective from the original thread:

klatremus on 26/1/2022 at 03:16

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So instead of copying the objectives, the original mission's idea is simply reimagined in a new setting, using NewDark to the full. I like it. Really look forward to this. Good luck to all the authors. :thumb:

ValmontPhl on 26/1/2022 at 04:44

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My understanding of 'the complete opposite of the Reloaded contest' is that, instead of using the OM map as a (recognizable) base with different objectives, ND10Y is to use the OM objectives as a (recognizable) base with a new map

ie, how would "Strange Bedfellows" be done on an entirely new ND map with the same objectives? I guess you could port over the OM convos and motions too

fiction_0: "The Hammerites have been preaching about the Trickster for years. Maybe they have some advice on how to deal with him for real. But with all the trouble you've been to them lately, you'll have to sneak in past their guards to talk to someone in charge."
text_0: "Sneak in to find the Hammer High Priest, and warn him about the Trickster."
fiction_1: "Looks like there's been trouble for more than just you. Before the Hammers can help you, you'll have to find them."
text_1: "Investigate the situation, and locate the Hammerites."
fiction_2: "If the beast-creatures are still besieging them, the Hammerites must still be alive. You'll have to get past them."
text_2: "Get past the siege of beastmen to connect with the Hammerites."
fiction_3: "Find the Hammer High Priest, who's being held hostage by the Trickster's creatures"
text_3: "Find the Hammer High Priest"
fiction_4: "Return the High Priest to the besieged Hammers."
text_4: "Return the High Priest to the besieged Hammers."
fiction_5: "If they won't help you without their chisel, fine, you'll go get the chisel for them..."
text_5: "Retrieve this 'Builder's Chisel' the Hammerites seem to think is so important."
fiction_6: "The Hammers will never help you if you make the situation any worse. Better stay out of any more fights with them."
text_6: "Don't kill any Hammers."
fiction_7: "Those bug-ladies make your skin crawl. You're not leaving any of them to get out into the city."
text_7: "Destroy all of the insect-beasts."

nicked on 26/1/2022 at 08:18

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I would advise anyone participating not to go all out on the custom resources with only 8 months to build it in. More likely to get some finished missions to play that way! :thumb: