I apologize if this has already been posted, but for those interested, several people are working on a total TOEE conversion to (you guessed it) Keep on the Borderlands.
And we need help. With scripting, dialogue and testing.
So get in on it if you're interested!
Circle of Eight forum: http://www.co8.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=45
Picture Gallery (check out the new 3D rendered backgrounds!):
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~shiningted/gallery.html
Keep on the Borderlands
I just now posted this over on the CO8 forums but thought i might also get some news from cross-posting it over here, too...
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hi all
i am slightly new here
and i was wondering about "Keep on the Borderlands" - what the latest status is?
I have never read the module itself but i have seen it before (in ages past, on store shelves, but never bought it back then). However I MAY (very slight chance) have a copy of it in PDF form "somewhere in my datacenter", lol...
I am wondering what the latest status is because i am quite excited! and there has been no report since EARLY december of last year and here we are almost at the end of January 2007 (and I think it was ShiningTed who mentioned a possible DEMO release sometime in January (this month???) yes yes I know i might sound like i am bugging people but i really am not. I am mostly curious because all the work I have seen so far (the scant readings I have done on this particular huge thread) seems quite amazing!
and can anyone possibly make a list of what ELSE needs YET to be done?
I have never modded a game before, and I am not exactly volunteering, because I am unsure of committment nor any of my skills that might be useful .... but I am just curious to see what is going on. I think if i can offer ANYTHING, it might at least be in the form of ideas (but i dont know how useful that might be because I have never read nor even PLAYED said module KOTB ever before).
Hmmm ... this is so exciting I just can't wait!
on a side note: I have been playing TOEE with CO8 Expansion Module 5.0 for almost a month now and I have only spotted a small amount of "Extras" in it so I guess I must not be too observant - I have read some of the "release notes" on CO8's 5.0 mod and I am wondering just what were the highlights about it? It seemed very much that the ORIGINAL TOEE CRPG (without any mods) from Atari, did and does seem "hastily released" ... like there was much more than only the Brothel stuff left out or missing / disabled. I always wanted to purchase the original TOEE module but back at the time I was not into DM'ing at all.
Is there anyone that can answer my few questions?
I always wanted a CRPG game that was super-huge in explorability, and I really hope that KOTB actually might EXCEED the scope and/or depth and scale, that TOEE had when it was first released. Thus far, the only 2 TSR/WOTC-style CRPG games that I have ever seen that have met this mark are IceWind Dale 2, and MAYBE Baldur's Gate 1. A game that can meet the depth and scale (size, etc...) of IceWind Dale 2 would VERY MUCH IMPRESS ME!! How would CO8's 5.0 mod of TOEE, and also, your latest KOTB mod, compare in size with those 2 games? I am very curious to know!!!!
PS: that link for ShiningTed's site ( http://members.optusnet.com.au/~shiningted/gallery.html ) - has been invalid for a long while now - I have started to read his BLOG however (the RPG Rant one) - are there any pages on his blog site now, that ECHO/COPY/REPOST the content which he once had posted on that now-dead link?
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hi all
i am slightly new here
and i was wondering about "Keep on the Borderlands" - what the latest status is?
I have never read the module itself but i have seen it before (in ages past, on store shelves, but never bought it back then). However I MAY (very slight chance) have a copy of it in PDF form "somewhere in my datacenter", lol...
I am wondering what the latest status is because i am quite excited! and there has been no report since EARLY december of last year and here we are almost at the end of January 2007 (and I think it was ShiningTed who mentioned a possible DEMO release sometime in January (this month???) yes yes I know i might sound like i am bugging people but i really am not. I am mostly curious because all the work I have seen so far (the scant readings I have done on this particular huge thread) seems quite amazing!
and can anyone possibly make a list of what ELSE needs YET to be done?
I have never modded a game before, and I am not exactly volunteering, because I am unsure of committment nor any of my skills that might be useful .... but I am just curious to see what is going on. I think if i can offer ANYTHING, it might at least be in the form of ideas (but i dont know how useful that might be because I have never read nor even PLAYED said module KOTB ever before).
Hmmm ... this is so exciting I just can't wait!
on a side note: I have been playing TOEE with CO8 Expansion Module 5.0 for almost a month now and I have only spotted a small amount of "Extras" in it so I guess I must not be too observant - I have read some of the "release notes" on CO8's 5.0 mod and I am wondering just what were the highlights about it? It seemed very much that the ORIGINAL TOEE CRPG (without any mods) from Atari, did and does seem "hastily released" ... like there was much more than only the Brothel stuff left out or missing / disabled. I always wanted to purchase the original TOEE module but back at the time I was not into DM'ing at all.
Is there anyone that can answer my few questions?
I always wanted a CRPG game that was super-huge in explorability, and I really hope that KOTB actually might EXCEED the scope and/or depth and scale, that TOEE had when it was first released. Thus far, the only 2 TSR/WOTC-style CRPG games that I have ever seen that have met this mark are IceWind Dale 2, and MAYBE Baldur's Gate 1. A game that can meet the depth and scale (size, etc...) of IceWind Dale 2 would VERY MUCH IMPRESS ME!! How would CO8's 5.0 mod of TOEE, and also, your latest KOTB mod, compare in size with those 2 games? I am very curious to know!!!!
PS: that link for ShiningTed's site ( http://members.optusnet.com.au/~shiningted/gallery.html ) - has been invalid for a long while now - I have started to read his BLOG however (the RPG Rant one) - are there any pages on his blog site now, that ECHO/COPY/REPOST the content which he once had posted on that now-dead link?
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