Upcoming & abandoned FMs list

[darthsLair]

Hi Phantom,

I just completed another 572 Terrain Brushes, to add another whopping area, and so I am just updating progress. No known release date as yet.
The mission is proceeding well thanks to dromed custom menus. So nice! Still a Pooty Tat! Nice Dromy!
Making progress, but slowly. Only 2% progress as of 9/10/09 Had to take a break, and help out a few taffers with their missions...ah!!a nice break from the little monster called DromZilla


edit:7/16/09 Just completed another 864 terrain brushes, another huge area.
3500 terrain brushes now. seventy two percent complete. The remaining percentage is sound, ect. still a ways from being beta tested. Working on Symbolism versus readables, and maps. There will be a series of maps based on symbols. Lots of ingame voicing by spooks
edit:9/10/09 Just had to eliminate the 864 terrain brushes, as it was too big for DromZilla to handle Oh well

Dromy almost turned on me, bit me a few times, and then started purring again This always seems to happen near the end of completion
edit:10/22/09 I made a 1 percent improvement, after having to scrap almost a thousand brushes. It was too large to Pathfind, so I am adding no more terrain, and am concentrating on Room Brushing, ect. It is a slow process Very slow with alot of technical problems now, but Murphy's Law is still in effect. Release date unknown. Eventually:laff

update for 2010: Making good progress. Added 161 new textures. Custom Ambient music. miss.file getting huge. It might top 80 megs zipped when released. 90 percent complete. Yet to add custom AI, Readables, Symbols for Clues. Intricate mapping system for game play.
Murphy's Law will probably come to pass when I am just about ready for beta testing. Drommy(Dr.Jekyl) becomes Dromzilla (Mr. Hyde)

Update: 2/11/10 Making some progress, but as it is a huge map, it will take a few more months possibly to iron out details. Such as, Texture alignment, RoomBrush adjustments, Water Flow adjustments. Setting lighting. Murphy's Law is active as usual, and if it can happen, it does with Dromed. We have tamed it a bit, but it still rules! Patience is certainly a good virture!

I am going to shoot for May as beta testing should start. This one will be in beta, I am sure for 30-45 days, maybe longer, so July 2010 maybe. I am a backup freak, so if I lose a computer, no big deal, but now it is the size of the map that bothers me. Taking great care to manage limits.

[Melan]

I suppose Disorientation is fairly close to being finished - it will probably enter beta testing in a few weeks. Probably.

[Dussander]

Melan - let me know if you want a testing forum when you're mission is done, just like your classic experience contest mission.

[Melan]

Melan - let me know if you want a testing forum when you're mission is done, just like your classic experience contest mission.

I plan to. Still some way off, though.

[The Watcher]

As discussed over in this thread I've decided that I can't fit everything I want to do in Shadowed Mayfield to a single mission (primarily for resource limit reasons).

So, I'm splitting it into two: the first part is Shadowed Mayfield, the second part is going to be a resurrection and retooling of the Legacy of Va-Toran, as it actually fits where I wanted to go very nicely. Because they'll be so closely linked, releasing them separately is not currently planned.

[The Phantom]

All good news, how great Thanks for sharing everyone.

... the second part is going to be a resurrection and retooling of the Legacy of Va-Toran, as it actually fits where I wanted to go very nicely.

\o/

[The Phantom]

Update of the Upcoming missions list

- 2 authors added: Monastiri (Whatever happened to Mr Agutt?), qolelis (The Sun Within and the Sun Without)
- 2 authors removed: cardia1 (Hunting Treasure), Ermana (Veranda)
- added the missions Elizabeth Bathory Chapter I: Elizabeth Bathory, Chapter II: Blood and Ice & Chapter III: On All Soul's Day to Sensut's FM info
- name change for Sensut's FM in development: Bathory IV: Countess Dracula into Bathory IV: The Blonde Devil
- new screenshots link for the missions of the author: R Soul
- latest news about the missions of the authors: Alexius & Team, darthsLair, Drysils Chosen, Melan, PsymH, R Soul, Random_Taffer, Sensut, The Watcher
- filled in the Current status for the missions of the authors: darthsLair, Drysils Chosen, Melan, Random_Taffer, Sensut
- updated the Current status for the missions of the author: PsymH
- filled in an Estimated release date for the mission(s) of the authors: Drysils Chosen, Random_Taffer, Sensut
- changed the Estimated release date for the mission of the author: Turcaill
- new details about the missions of the authors: Melan, R Soul, Sensut, The Watcher
- updated details about the mission of the authors: Alexius & Team

- color code change for the missions of the author: bassmanret (green into orange)

[Tannar]

Thanks for the update The Phantom!

[intruder]

Thanks for the update!

I've got some progress to report on my Keeper Investigations missions as well.

Mission 4 is now ~85% complete
Mission 5 is at 20%
Mission 6 is to 100% complete

I added improved maps to the first 3 missions, equipment stores and some minor texture fixes and other graphic updates.
But I'm afraid I won't make it until this summer, autumn is more likely

[Tannar]

Wow! Those screenshots look great intruder! I love the lab with the hydrodynamics chamber. Very cool.

[SneakyJack]

Great screenshots, but that image host has got to be the worst ever. A popup when you look at the image, then a pop under when you are done?

[Yandros]

I use Firefox and AdblockPlus, SJ, and got neither.

Hmmmm.... I sense a 6+ mission campaign about submarines in our future... amazing psychic ability, I know...


Those screens look great, intruder!

[bassmanret]

Update of the Upcoming missions list

- color code change for the missions of the author: bassmanret (green into orange)

While I completely understand your re-categorization, I must most-humbly request a revision to your re-categorization.

Granted, every single estimated release date (admittedly optimistic, and later proved to be erroneous in every case.... [ok, I'm just stupid]) has NOT been met. This is the exact reason why I have tried very hard to remain silent about the mission's progress. Still, I AM VERY NEAR COMPLETION on this mission (by my estimates, less than 30 hours of work left.... that's about 95% complete) and have been working on it daily for months now. If Sneaky Jack's screen shot tutorial was released, I would post some screenshots (despite my aversion to releasing screenshots to a mission prior to its release).

Please don't misunderstand... I'm not saying that it will be anything near the quality of work the veterans (you know who you are) create, but it will FINALLY complete the simple story I was trying to tell so very long ago. That is all I want to do. I doubt everyone will like it, but I hope some do.

[clearing]

intruder, I think you need to put all of those screenshots into its own thread. Looks great

[clearing]

Wow http://www.lol.multimo.pl/rac_demo1.wmv video preview by Nivellen.

[intruder]

Great screenshots, but that image host has got to be the worst ever. A popup when you look at the image, then a pop under when you are done?

I'm sorry for this! But as Yandros suggested, just use AddBlockPlus and it will be ok.

I could have used the hotlink instead, but the providers don't like it that much

And thank you all for your kind words!

[cardia1]

Hi People just to say i´m going to build and abandoned and haunted Mansion with a school, where action takes place during afternnon daylight with a melancholic, relaxing and shady ambient, the places are chaotic, flooded and half destroyed, as for the gameplay i don´t know well yet exactly what should i do, but i´m open to suggestions, this one will be dedicated to Clearing

[clearing]

Whoa! I'm definitely looking forward to it!

[cardia1]

Whoa! I'm definitely looking forward to it!

It will be something like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. , lol i thought this was the topic of upcoming missions.

[cardia1]

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Hi People just to say i´m going to build and abandoned and haunted Mansion with a school, where action takes place during afternnon daylight with a melancholic, relaxing and shady ambient, the places are chaotic, flooded and half destroyed, as for the gameplay i don´t know well yet exactly what should i do, but i´m open to suggestions, this one will be dedicated to Clearing

[clearing]

It will be something like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Cool

[pavlovscat]

Hopefully without all the periods?

[The Phantom]

Update of the Upcoming missions list

- 1 author added: Ricebug (Strife III)
- 3 authors removed:

Alexius & Team with The Hammerite Imperium
Reason: The Hammerite Imperium mission 1: The Seven Shades of Mercury released

nicked with Whispers in the Dessert (From Beneath the Sands 2)
Reason: mission released

Ramirez's Old Fat Burrick with Transitions in Chaos Part 2
Reason: on hold for indefinite time due to real life

- added the mission Keeper Investigations 6 to intruder's FM info
- removed the mission Serious Business from Morrgan's upcoming FM info (reason: no news for over a year)
- new screenshots links for the missions of the authors: HipBreaker, Sliptip
- latest news about the missions of the authors: bassmanret, Catman, HipBreaker, intruder, john-the-begger, Melan, Nivellen, Sliptip, sterlino, tdbonko
- updated the Current status for the missions of the authors: bassmanret, Catman, HipBreaker, intruder, tdbonko
- filled in an Estimated release date for a mission of the author: Sliptip (The First project)
- changed the Estimated release date for the missions of the authors: HipBreaker, intruder

- color code change for the missions of the authors: bassmanret (orange into green), Sliptip (The First Project - orange into green), tdbonko (orange into green)

[SneakyJack]

Lots of orange into green, which is always great to see!

Thanks for the update Phantom

[R Soul]

Hey Phantom, for my released missions it says The Medal Age. The full title was Thief 4: The Medal Age

I wanted it to be an insult not just to FMs but to any hope people had at the time that there would be a Thief 4