What is Amnesia: The Dark Descent

[graykin]

Well, I know you often get a wide variety of characters in games like Unreal Tournament (although with some of them, it's the same model with just a modified texture), albeit still distant from 97 characters overall.

But that's not including the fan-made content for the game. If you were to look up homemade character models for Unreal, I'd bet you'd be able to find several hundred character models waiting to be downloaded. Although I obviously don't know exact numbers, it'd definitely surpass the 97 mark.

What am I getting at? What if--hypothetically of course--FG were to set up a contest involving the entire online community in making character models for the game? You get the whole community to make models/textures/animations/whatever FOR THE GAME before it gets released, and are then added. Wouldn't that, hypothetically be cool?

Now, before I get shot-down by those with more technical experience than me and all that--lemme just say...I understand how difficult something like this would be to coordinate. There would have to be a lot of pre-planning on FG's part, more planning than they can afford to do, at any rate. Not to mention getting the whole mish-mash of character models INTO the game and all that--there's bound to be a ridiculous variety of models, each modeler having his own style, and I'm sure Tom and Jens would be pulling their hair out trying to make each model actually fit into their game. I know it just wouldn't work as well as I would like it to.

But still...it's not a bad idea, hm? Kedjane and the rest of us would get the variety we so often desire, and the entire online community would have a chance to shape the game in development. If properly coordinated, it could be done. It'd just be a complete pain in the butt.

But I'm afraid I've gone off-topic so lemme try and segway this puppy:

I'm eagerly awaiting Lux Tenebras: It looks fairly awesome, from the footage I've seen, and I hope, whether they have a massive variety or not, the models are scary enough to frighten the very snot out of me. Don't go for quantity FG--go for quality!