Grandpa's mansion redone mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent

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This mod is the interpretation of my first and only mod I made so far in a way that I would have made it now. You can find the original on my profile but I wouldn't play it if I were you :D You have been warned!

What this mod promises? First of all, it had been completely remade (aside from 3 or 4 from the original mod) levels from scratch, a completely new story and few polished new systems:

• If you have played the original mod, you will notice that there are no similarities between the original story and the new one (if the original one's story can even be called a story).
• As stated previously, other than a few levels everything was remade from scratch.
• The playtime will be extended by a lot (and not because there will be impossibly hard or trolly puzzles).
• Many puzzle sections, each with a unique spin (so, not too many key puzzles). Puzzles' difficulty will ramp up from the game straight up telling you what to do at the start to not even having an update in your quest logs.
• There are two paths in the story, that lead to two different endings and comepletely different levels.
• A complex story that might need a second reading or interpretation to reveal every detail.

What the mod will not promise:

• The best story ever that will make you think about it for years: the reason for this is very simple; I'm not that used to writing sotries. In fact, this is my very first story I write for anything but I will try my best (the story has already been rewritten multiple times).
• Very revolutional things: even though I do my best to customise everything to my liking there are heavy limitations for me. The main limitation is the game's engine. If you have any experience with creating full conversion mods then you will very well know for example, the engine does not let you have multiple handheld lightsources, like the lantern. The other thing is that I'm not experienced in modeling which limits me to only Amnesia related models (altough Machine for Pigs' models did allow me to be more creative with my levels thankfully). This might change later but for now I don't want to get too much into modeling yet.

So then why make this mod?

Well, it's very much only a personal passion project (not the Radical Heights kind of passion project, but an actualy one). The development started when I showed this very old mod I made to one of my friends and realised how broken it was in reality. In fact, I don't think it was actually play tested from start to finish. So I decided I would patch things up, fix all the bugs and then upload that version so it can be finished. But there was one problem with it: I didn't like it at all. The story didn't make sense, the levels felt rushed and out of place and the puzzles while ambitious, ended up being unfun or broken. So I decided to remake a few thing in the mod to make it a lot better but then I got into another problem: the story was...let's just say bad (but it is an understatement). So I decided to rewrite the story to make more sense. Right now in time, we are around April-March 2018. Fast forward a few months when I did not work on the project (didn't have the time and motivation at that time). It is now August. I thought about the whole thing again and realised that by strictly making a remake I limit myself way too much and thus I decided to just completely scrap the entire idea of the mod being a remake other than in its name. This way I have a lot more creative freedom in the story and I can really put my hearth and soul into this project. This is also the reason why it is not done yet. Originally I planned to call it "Grandpa's mansion 2018 remake" but not so long ago I realised that I will not be done by the end of 2018 if I actually want to take my time and not rush the entire thing like I did with the original. This is also the reason why the release date is TBD (editor's note, it isn't anymore, look below for more details). If there is one thing I learned from Valve and recently Crowbar ent. (the makers of the Half-life 1 remake, Black Mesa) is that if it is possible, don't rush myself with deadlines. But enough of the hippie bs, I truly want to make this a very enjoyable experience that has a unique style from the base game but still retaining some of its charm. The mod will probably not live up to my wildest imaginations but I do my best to make it as great as I can possibly do in a reasonable time frame.

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