Thief: The Dark Project 20th Anniversary Contest: RESULTS! Mar 1 2019 - by Yandros
neux on 1/3/2019 at 18:39
Congrats to all!
marbleman on 1/3/2019 at 19:10
Thanks to everybody who contributed to the contest; this was a lot of fun!
May the T2 Contest be just as successful!
Psych0sis on 1/3/2019 at 19:38
Awesome contest! Good to see a lot of people come out strong, so many fantastic missions!
And I will be back!
Iceblade on 1/3/2019 at 19:45
Dang, I played so few of these. And none of those that I played were even top five. Crazy.
Oh well, just means I have a pool of missions waiting for me to play. Better than having no more "unplayed" missions to play.
Tommyph1208 on 1/3/2019 at 20:18
Played it and called it immediately after..., Scarlet Casabel is a masterpiece, no doubt.
I still have a few missions left to play (sadly I didn't get around to all of them), will do so in the coming months.
Congrats to all of the participants, in my book, you are all winners just for taking the time and commitment to actually submit a mission entry for a 20 year old game that old geezers like me get to enjoy and remember his childhood joys...
I really have to get my act together and make a mission for the Thief 2 anniversary contest.
Jax64 on 1/3/2019 at 20:19
This contest produced perhaps the greatest Thief Gold missions ever released.
It was a pleasure playing through this excellent collection of missions and the winner was certainly deserving of such a title. This contest was truly one of great achievements. Well done to all involved.
skacky on 1/3/2019 at 20:58
Again, I would like to thank everyone who participated and submitted a mission. Congratulations are in order to Pukey and Tannar who delivered a masterpiece that is easily on par with Rowena's Curse and Ominous Bequest, and that I genuinely did not see coming. Congratulations are also in order to the people who released their first mission for the contest: vfig, Phantom, McTaffer, Schlock, Jayrude, mtk, Psych0sis, Swiz and Marzec. This contest also saw the return of Haplo and Melan, who both delivered high quality missions.
Like Twist says, one shouldn't only play the top 5 as a vast majority of the missions made for this contest are easily classics in the making and should not be overlooked.
pukey brunster on 2/3/2019 at 02:31
Tannar and I want to thank skacky for creating and organizing this contest, a wonderful tribute to our favorite game. It's been quite an adventure, and we feel privileged to be a part of it.
We also want to thank Yandros for all his work organizing and administrating the contest, but most especially for his continual willingness to help other authors. Without his technical know-how, as well as his Herculean efforts on our behalf, this mission would never have seen the light of day.. or at least have made it in before the contest deadline!
Thank you to everyone who participated in any capacity: testers, voice actors, artists, etc. who worked so hard to make this contest a reality.
A huge congratulations to all the authors who entered.. your efforts and talent are appreciated by all, and as always it's the community who wins from your hard work. In particular, congratulations to the first-time authors who entered this contest. It took guts to jump into such an endeavor as a beginner, and we applaud you. We are all looking forward to more missions from you.
We are honestly surprised by our win, because there are some truly superlative entries that blew us away. Certainly the top scoring missions all deserved to win, and we're just glad it wasn't up to us, because frankly it's too difficult to choose between them. In fact, the scores are so closely spaced that on any given day any one of them could have taken the top slot.
Skacky, DrK and Nicked, and many others, produced incredible missions that are destined to become all-time classics. We are honored to find ourselves in the company of such talented authors.
Thank you to all the players and mission authors whose shared passion for this amazing game keeps our community thriving twenty years after its first release. We're looking forward to the next twenty years!
downwinder on 2/3/2019 at 03:47
grats to all but "in and out should have been in top 10 my view
DirkBogan on 2/3/2019 at 04:48
Quote Posted by downwinder
grats to all but "in and out should have been in top 10 my view
I think in a contest with so many entries, worrying about top five or top ten is a bit arbitrary. In & Out scored 22.5, the top three scored 26.3-5. The difference between the top 14 missions is only 4.737. It was an incredibly competitive and close contest.