We are pleased to announce that we are working on The Crucible of Omens, a full-length campaign for The Dark Mod, the moody Doom 3-based stealth game by Broken Glass Studios. Playing as the thief and adventurer John Welland Hadley, you will embark on a quest to find a powerful artifact inherited from a shadowy past. You journey will take you throughout The Dark Mod universe, discovering new and exotic locations and meeting new and interesting factions and characters. The Crucible of Omens spans multiple large missions and is being worked on by many well-known TDM mappers and team members.
Features include:
- A wealth of different environments from the smoke-darkened city of Bridgeport to the icy northlands, from opulent mansions to the cobwebbed depths of forgotten catacombs.
- Gameplay centred on stealth, the pursuit of in-game clues and open-ended exploration, utilising the technical possibilities of The Dark Mod to create a complex, interactive game world.
- New opponents and characters. What drives the pirates of Wrecker's Reach? Who are the mysterious Urielites? And what lurks in the mind of Lord Blackstone?
- AI conversations and player character comments.
- A unique story experienced through in-game actions, animated briefings and dynamic objectives.
No official release date has been set; updates will continue as the campaign development progresses. Be sure to keep an eye out for future updates.
How can I help with the project?
We are currently looking for skilled individuals to help contribute to the project in the following areas:
- artist and animator (cutscenes and in-game animations)
- modeller (campaign-specific models)
- mapper (scripting, bugfixes, testing)
- voice actors (various)
- music composers
Main mappers: Angua, Bikerdude, Dram, Fidcal, Greebo, Jdude, Melan
Sounds great. :)
Sounds great AND looks great!! You guys are really showing that your mappers have grown in skill, fantastic stuff.
OMFG!!!! I can't Wait!
TEAM DARKMOD: GO!!!
great.....
Awesomeness!
You can do it!
GO DARK TEAM GO GO! GO DARK TEAM GO!
"No official release date has been set; updates will continue as the campaign development progresses. Be sure to keep an eye out for future updates."
So probably sometime between tomorrow and the Second Advent?
But seriously this is of course great news, knowing that these FMAs are up to good works. I just wish they'd consider, now, serialization... Fatigue risks on both the building and the playing, IMNHO.
AidaKeeley what do you mean by serialization?
I'm guessing something along the lines of episodic content. It might be a good idea, but I don't think I could stand another long wait for Episode 3 :-)
Yeah, "episodic" means the same thing.
The point being that it's easier to wait for episode 3 when you have episodes 1 and 2 to keep you occupied in the meantime... ;)
I say this as a FMPlayer, obviously , rather than a FMAuthor. And that's, obviously and honestly, where I'm coming from...
But I can make a case also for the benefit of the campaign and those FMAs working on it:
1. It'll keep them stoked with what must be a big part of FMAing -- happy feedback praise.
2. It'll set them on a more collaborative course than each working on individual missions and, rather, focusing, as a whole team, to some higher degree on whatever mission is next to roll out.
3. If the missions/chapters are released in an episodic manner there won't be a possibly crippling constant re-visioning and, therefore, re-working of the whole goddamned thing every 2.3 weeks. Direction will have been taken; narrative invoked (conclusions are still open and creativity still holds sway, mind you); and the impetus to move forward, not laterally or maybe backward, is assured.
This is what I've been waiting for.
I have done a lot of Dark Mod vocals for Sotha, ycaks, and a lot of other authors, and do a VERY good "Master Thief" if I do say so myself. I'd like to volunteer some VO for Crucible of Omens. I'll explore this site tonight; I'm on lunch right now. I did Garrett for five of the 24 entries in the Thief Gold 20th Aniversarry competition.
Stop into www.everybodyandme.com and check out the two Dark Mod demos, and please get back to me!