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The Dark Mod is a fan recreation of a Thief style game using the Doom 3 engine: To celebrate our 15th year, we are holding a fan mission contest! 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! 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 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!

Per the folks at Quake3world, I am posting an addendum with Tutorial details: Here is The Dark Mod's mission author page with links to Tutorials and the Starter's Map (a premade map with just about every TDM feature demonstrated). http://www.thedarkmod.com/mission-authors/ Here is Komag's Youtube site with many TDM editing tutorials (which also could be helpful for Doom 3 modders in general): http://www.youtube.com/user/Komagb?feature=watch

The Dark Mod is a total conversion mod for Doom 3 that converts the game into a game very similar to the "Thief" series games from Looking Glass Studios http://www.thedarkmod.com http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod Example gameplay: I am posting here to find out if there is anything that would motivate veteran mappers to participate in a mission contest for The Dark Mod. Some generic ideas that spring forth: 1) Recognition at the Moddb and TDM sites? 2) Prizes (games, t-shirt, mug, hardware, money?) 3) Mod team membership? Please post any demand that would plausibly get you or any mapper you know to participate in a TDM contest. Thanks, nbohr1more