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ARCHIVED NEWS - SEPTEMBER 2002
9.29.2002 - C.Ansel
Consider Joining This Project: Do you have experience with Dungeoneering tools? (Siege Editor and Siege Max?). Can you draw quality textures? Do you have the skills to model and/or animate characters (monsters)? Can you skrit? Consider joining us if you can do any of these and are looking for a place to plugin your skills. I've recently added one person already (besides my wife), and I'm considering another. But, our team needs to grow. E-mail me with the subject "member potential" if you are interested. Check out our "Join Us" section for a few more details.
A Weekend of Work: Ccntmnky & I spent a good portion of time over the weekend creating a lot of stuff. Keep an eye out for new material. Bruuly has also done some "undercover" work. His findings will be revealed in due time.
9.27.2002 - C.Ansel
HOORAY for Advertising: We got an advertisement for this mod site right smack dab on the front page of DungeonSiege.com. We also had our site advertised on the front page of PDS. Check them both out.
Zaddy is L33T: Zaddy, our Composer for game music, shines in his latest piece of work. This composition really hits the nail on the head as far as achieving the kind of sound we're looking for. Make no mistake, Zaddy is good at what he does, and he has great passion.
Sound Designs Begin: Ccntmnky has begun sampling sounds and we've successfully incorporated some of them into the game already.
Welcome TruLady: My wife, (this is C.Ansel), has decided to join the team. After seeing me continue to be excited and productive with this mod, she wants to fully support me and the mod by contributing her creative ability. She will be one of our Level designers.
Brulion lays down the smack with his router: Brulion has successfully removed the "Jerry-Rig" of an FTP server we had going before and has set up the quality control version of an FTP server. Mod data now flows like the Euphrates.
9.24.2002 - C.Ansel
More Models: I've created and posted a screen shot for the Scimtar you can find in the weapons section. I've also finished the "Great Shield." This actually took me a very long time to complete: 1. The more detailed texture map. I actually loaded up a save game in The Summoning, used a Fehu rune to summon that thing, then I drew a picture of it so I could texture it properly. The finished product is one of my best. 2. It took me a very long time to adjust the grips properly so the character would hold it correctly without any clipping.
Screen Shot: I've put up one screen shot of my developer's level. It was originally the first draft of the antechamber, but I am going to redo it so that it feels exactly like the first Antechamber from the original game. Not all of the levels are going to achieve this, but the idea is that each level will definitely have all of the major attributes/characters/traps that the original levels had. And perhaps, we may just do things as close possible all of the way through.
9.22.2002 - Cansel
New Models and an Update: Our Weapons section has a few weapons added: the Silver Sword and the falchion, plus Warmonger has been updated. I've added the Items List section and have only begun some of the modeling for the items in the game.
9.15.2002 - Cansel
Music Added to Downloads: Check out our downloads section for our latest content. We've added a few songs that we've made, plus the intro song in The Antechamber level from the original game. Jaelus re-created the MIDI himself because none of knew how to extract the game music. We took it and tweaked it some to fit the profile of a game from the 2000's rather than the early 90's.
New Member: TS-DS welcomes Zaddy, our newest member to the Mod group. He is the lead musical artist. He'll be writing most of the music for the Mod. This will let Ccntmnky have more time to create the sound samples and texturing.
Website Update: I altered the structure of the site once again. I don't foresee any more major changes to the site structure. Most of the additions here on out will be "content" additions.
9.11.2002 - Cansel
Training Contest at GPG: Gas Powered Games is conducting an essay contest in which the winner will receive round trip airfare to Seattle to be trained by the people at GPG themselves, the makers of Dungeon Siege for those of you Summoning'ers that don't know much about Dungeon Siege yet. Eventually you'll want to pick up a copy of the game to play this mod when it is done. At this point, it is going to be a while...unless I win this contest. :)
Website Update: The web has been given a huge overhaul. New categories and content are being added. A lot of this is still empty at this point since I just created it all and I don't have a ton of time. More will be added after this weekend, including new screenshots.
9.8.2002 - Cansel
The website has now been created and will be online shortly. With much thanks and gratitude to Jaelus, of www.jaelus.com/thesummoning, we have a host for this site. We are very proud to have him host our site, since he has the most well know website about The Summoning, no questions.
If anyone has some skills and experience and wants to help create this mod, read the "What is DS-TS?" section and in there you'll find a small bit about what we need.
8.24.2002 - Cansel, Ccntmnky We finished "Warmonger," the pearls, some keys in the game, and the silver sword. There are a few little things we'll tweak once the mod is further along, but for the most part, they are complete. Be sure to check out the screen shots.
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TS-DS is an open MOD project. The Summoning™ was a trademark of Even Horizon Software™, Dungeon Siege™ is a trademark of Gas Powered Games™. For any information regarding the website content, contact C.Ansel. For information regarding website access problems, contact Jaelus.
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