raystuttgart
Civ4Col Modder
Well, after a few weeks of "Not-Modding", I have decided to start a new project.
(Yeah, I know I wanted to totally quit, but I am an addict and I got bored by the games I had tried so far. )
The title of the new project is Path to the Throne.
(The basic idea was first mentioned publically here.)
It is a SciFi Total Conversion of Religion and Revolution.
I had created first ideas and concepts for this over a year ago at the time when I started discussion with other modders to create a new CivCol-Modding team,
which basically lead to the Religion and Revolution project.
At that time I was considering 2 Alternatives:
A) Create a ModMod of TAC -> Religion and Revolution
or
B) Create a SciFi TC of TAC -> Path to the Throne
I had decided to first do A) and then maybe try B) as a long term goal.
I am currently in the progress of setting up everything.
So basically the usual things, when a project starts.
(Quite similar to what I had done with Ray's Wishlist as preparation for Religion and Revolution.)
However, this project will be quite different to everything I have done before ...
I will not reuse / expand a given setting / story but try to create a totally new "SciFi-Epos" (which is a bit inspired by "Frank Herbert's Dune").
Thus the project will have 3 major phases with a distinct focus:
(Which does not mean that I will not mix these phases a bit.)
1. Lore and Storyline
2. Technical Conception and Prototyping
3. Implementation
However, don't expect a public version soon.
It took a year of preparation (Ray's Wish List) and a year of real implementation with a team until a first version of Religion and Revolution was published and this project is planned to be even bigger.
So maybe I will even fail completely.
But I guess, I will at least have fun modding.
I will keep you guys informed about my progress.
(At the weekend I will probably also be able to give you the link to the new forum.)
(Yeah, I know I wanted to totally quit, but I am an addict and I got bored by the games I had tried so far. )
The title of the new project is Path to the Throne.
(The basic idea was first mentioned publically here.)
It is a SciFi Total Conversion of Religion and Revolution.
Spoiler :
I had created first ideas and concepts for this over a year ago at the time when I started discussion with other modders to create a new CivCol-Modding team,
which basically lead to the Religion and Revolution project.
At that time I was considering 2 Alternatives:
A) Create a ModMod of TAC -> Religion and Revolution
or
B) Create a SciFi TC of TAC -> Path to the Throne
I had decided to first do A) and then maybe try B) as a long term goal.
I am currently in the progress of setting up everything.
- Preparing the (discussion and development) forum
- Outline of the vision and writing first lore
- Checking Civ4 SciFi-Mods for ideas and everything I could reuse
- Creating concepts and first experimental prototypes of features
- Collecting graphcis (background images)
- Lots of discussions
...
So basically the usual things, when a project starts.
(Quite similar to what I had done with Ray's Wishlist as preparation for Religion and Revolution.)
However, this project will be quite different to everything I have done before ...
I will not reuse / expand a given setting / story but try to create a totally new "SciFi-Epos" (which is a bit inspired by "Frank Herbert's Dune").
Thus the project will have 3 major phases with a distinct focus:
(Which does not mean that I will not mix these phases a bit.)
1. Lore and Storyline
2. Technical Conception and Prototyping
3. Implementation
However, don't expect a public version soon.
It took a year of preparation (Ray's Wish List) and a year of real implementation with a team until a first version of Religion and Revolution was published and this project is planned to be even bigger.
So maybe I will even fail completely.
But I guess, I will at least have fun modding.
I will keep you guys informed about my progress.
(At the weekend I will probably also be able to give you the link to the new forum.)