Stealth Gaming in a Gothic Steampunk World

** The Dark Mod wins PC Gamer's 2013 Mod of the Year award! **

“It’s a tremendous achievement – a detailed tribute to the Thief series…. Projects like The Dark Mod are a way for those fans to say “if you won’t make it, we will” – to deftly lift what was good and meaningful about the games that inspired us years ago and run away with it.”
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“this is splendid….it’s basically Thief…but in Doom 3.”
–Rock, Paper, Shotgun

THE DARK MOD was once total conversion of Doom 3, and now is a STANDALONE GAME with the release of TDM 2.0!




A dark and moody stealth game, inspired by the "Thief" series by Looking Glass Studios, The Dark Mod includes creative new gameplay features, dozens of unique AI, and a complete set of custom art assets, allowing players and mappers alike to enjoy missions in a gothic steampunk universe. When you play The Dark Mod, you feel like you’re playing a gothic stealth game…there’s nothing left that’s recognizable from Doom 3.



This game is first and foremost a toolkit, allowing fans and team-members to create their own stealth missions in a gothic steampunk environment. But there are already over 170 full missions for download, including some small campaigns, so it certainly feels like a game. The only difference is that you have to choose which missions to install and play.




Setting:

The Dark Mod world can be viewed as an alternate version of our own. It is a mixture of several historical periods, with architecture ranging from medieval castles to Victorian mansions. In this world, steam and clockwork technology were discovered much earlier in history, allowing for odd inventions and industrial warehouses to exist side-by-side with Gothic cathedrals and sword-wielding city watch.

Return to the City V2 (Re-Release) Part 2




Editor:

We also maintain our own mission editor, called Dark Radiant. It is an updated version of GTKRadiant, and has a lot new features (Python scripting support, many bug-fixes, new Particle preview, Texture Tool etc.) and comes with a number of Dark Mod related plug-ins like an Objectives or Conversation editor.

Example Editing:


Try it yourself!

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The Dark Mod 15th Anniversary Contest!


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The Dark Mod project trundles onward for it’s 15th year in a row. In that time we have improved our game engine in countless ways and have grown to over 170 missions!

To celebrate our perseverance and the years of improvements to come, we are hosting a contest to mark 15 years since the 1.0 release!


2.12 mission updates

Now is your time to demonstrate the mission design that best exemplifies your personal style and capabilities! Please consider entering this event!

Unlike most recent contests, there is no defined theme and we are simply going to score based on our standard metrics of Story, Gameplay, and Visuals with our standard weighted scoring:

Max Possible = Total Votes * 5 (Outstanding)

TotalMaxPointsPoss (TMP) = AllCategoryVotecount(ACV) * 30

Full Weighted Score (FWS) = (Gameplay score*3 + Visual score*2 + Story score) / TMP


Contest Submissions should be provided before October 16th 2024 so that players can start playing and celebrating on the 17th!


The players have been keen to relay that they would like really creative missions so it may be worthwhile to examine our “Community Unusual Contest” to get an idea about the wild range of possibilities we offer to designers.

Also, since the contest submission is in October, there will probably be an increased desire for Horror themes.

The Dark Mod 2.12 was just released so including new 2.12 features is strongly encouraged.

Finally, it might be nice if authors name their protagonist Corbin to match the included missions.

( None of the above suggestions are requirements for the submissions. )

Please visit the Fan Mission Forum to declare your intention to join and to discuss anything related to the contest. Thank you!

The Dark Mod 2.12 is HERE!!!

The Dark Mod 2.12 is HERE!!!

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The Dark Mod 2.12 brings incredible performance gains, Smooth controls, a new Turret entity, and a full set of AI subtitles!

The Dark Mod 2.11 is Here!!!

The Dark Mod 2.11 is Here!!!

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The Dark Mod 2.11 arrived to refine the improvements made in 2.10 as well as fix lots of longstanding old bugs and game-play issues. This is primarily...

The Darkmod 2.10 is HERE!!!

The Darkmod 2.10 is HERE!!!

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After a year of constant development, The Dark Mod 2.10 arrives!!! This is a landmark release with one of the most requested improvements: FASTER MISSION...

The Dark Mod 2.09 is HERE!!!

The Dark Mod 2.09 is HERE!!!

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The latest TDM release brings some significant performance gains thanks to significant OpenGL feature updates.

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The Dark Mod 2.12 FULL

The Dark Mod 2.12 FULL

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The entire Darkmod 2.12 download in one archive. No need to run tdm_installer.

Official - The Dark Mod Installer (Windows 64-bit)

Official - The Dark Mod Installer (Windows 64-bit)

Installer Tool

The new tdm_installer tools is the intended replacement for tdm_updater. It can install, upgrade, or downgrade TDM to any Standalone 2.x version.

Official - The Dark Mod Installer (Linux 64-bit)

Official - The Dark Mod Installer (Linux 64-bit)

Installer Tool

The new tdm_installer tools is the intended replacement for tdm_updater. It can install, upgrade, or downgrade TDM to any Standalone 2.x version.

The Dark Mod 2.11 FULL

The Dark Mod 2.11 FULL

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The entire Darkmod 2.11 download in one archive. No need to run tdm_installer.

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The Dark Mod 2.10 FULL 64-bit

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The entire Darkmod 2.10 download in one archive. No need to run tdm_installer.

The Dark Mod 2.09b FULL

The Dark Mod 2.09b FULL

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The entire Darkmod 2.09b download in one archive. No need to run tdm_installer.

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TheUnbeholden
TheUnbeholden

People have asked me what are my favourite fan missions that are worthy getting into for the average player who don't play that much.

Of the conventional missions;

"A Score to Settle" - The best map TDM has at the moment.

"Builder's Influence" is the second best.

I also think "Somewhere Above the City" is nearly a perfect stealth mission. But its a unconventional mission due its gameplay difficulty, length, and story.

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teztez
teztez

can i run this mode with amd 3000 (builtin graphics card)?6 gigabyte ddr 3 ram.i tried your mod last year and it crashes during mission.

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nbohr1more Creator
nbohr1more

Not enough detail? Ryzen 3000 series? What driver version?

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teztez
teztez

amd fx-4300 quad core processor.3.80 GHz

ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics
Driver Version: 8.970.100.1100

6 gigabyte ram ddr3.

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nbohr1more Creator
nbohr1more

Terrascale 1 architecture is so old that not even modded drivers like NimeZ \ Amernime support it. We tried to get it working in 2.09 but the drivers are too broken. Still it's worth a shot to try it out. I would update to the latest 13.x drivers here: Amd.com

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teztez
teztez

Driver Version: 8.970.100.1100 is the latest for ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics.
I am already using Catalyst Software version 13.9.
and its Display Driver ver. is 8.97.100.11

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nbohr1more Creator
nbohr1more

No guaranties but that GPU does support OpenGL 3.3 so it "should" work. You may need to use image_downSize cvars to reduce memory usage.

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Guest
Guest

It's absolutely great that fan missions can be downloaded right in the game, but I wish there was a mod for the main menu music that would change it to something much less annoying and much more fitting for the Thief series in style, because the music we have doesn't fit at all, it sounds like it was made for some fairy tale from Tim Burton and the more I hear it while downloading another mission the more it becomes unbearable. Too bad that turning it off is the only solution we have...

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TheUnbeholden
TheUnbeholden

Congrats on the release. This is a great one! As good as the last one.

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treymadams92
treymadams92

Anybody have a list of must play fan missions? or just go down the list and play all of them?

There's a lot soo i was curious is some are hit or miss?

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nbohr1more Creator
nbohr1more

The following wiki has a few details:

Wiki.thedarkmod.com

There is a Top 5 thread referenced there that has people posting favorites.

I can personally vouch for Goldwell's Accountant Series, Northdale Series, Lord Edgar's Bathhouse, and Noble Affairs, Kingsal's Volta Series and Hazard Pay, Moonbo's Requiem + House of Locked Secrets ( Shadowcursed Series ), Grayman's William Steele series and The Black Mage, Melan's Penny Dreadful series, WellingtonCrab's Iris, a few "team created" missions like No Honor Among Thieves v4, Painter's Wife, Crucible of Omens: Behind Closed Doors, Written in Stone, Amadeus A Good Neighbor, Springheel's A Score to Settle and A Reputation to Uphold, Baal and Bikerdude's Sir Talbot's Collateral, Fidcal's Thief's Den 2 and 3, Spoonman's Full Moon Fever.

It's probably almost easier to name "no so great missions" than list all the great ones but I am not one to hurt feelings that way.

I also enjoy Sotha's "Thomas Porter Series" but am hesitant to recommend it since many complain that it's too difficult\hard-core.

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