As the game's emphasis is on stealth, players are encouraged to focus on concealment, evasion, distraction, misdirection, and subtle takedowns, rather than on outright confrontation; the player's character can engage in sword-based combat when the need arises, and can perform three different attacks as well as parrying, but has limited proficiency and damage resistance in such circumstances.[3][6] To do so, players must remain aware of their surroundings. To assist them in remaining hidden, a special meter on the heads-up display (HUD), in the form of a gem, helps to indicates the player's visibility to NPCs; the brighter it is, the more easily they can be visually detected, thus sticking to dark, shady spots where the gem dims ensures the player is hidden, though NPCs can still find them if they get too close in front of them.[3] To remain quiet, players must be careful of how much noise they produce, as well as what surfaces they are moving over; walking on soft surfaces like carpets and grass is preferable as footsteps remain quiet, compared to walking over metal floors and ceramic tiles, which produce a lot of noise.[3][7] NPCs also produce noise, from whistling or walking about, for example, which can help players determine how far they are to their own position. Noise can be used by the player to mislead or distract NPCs, such as throwing an object to lure them elsewhere.

Thief takes place in a metropolis called "the City",[6] which has been noted to contain elements of the Middle Ages-like dark fantasy and the Industrial Revolution.[6][13] Project director Greg LoPiccolo said in an early preview: "In essence [... it's] this undefined medieval age, sort of medieval [Europe] meets Brazil meets City of Lost Children. There's some electricity, some magic, and some 19th century machinery kind of stuff."[14] The setting has been described as steampunk, a fantastical setting where steam engine technology is prominently used.[15] It has also been argued that Thief is one of the earliest examples of the New Weird genre.[16] During levels, the player may learn about the setting by finding notes and overhearing conversations;[7][17] it has been noted that the player participates in the revelation of Thief's setting.[7]


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Thief began development in April 1996.[49] For the game's original designer and writer Ken Levine, credited by The Telegraph as "a key figure in the creation" of Thief,[50] inspirations came from two of his favourite games, Castle Wolfenstein and Diablo.[51] The initial concept was to make an action role-playing game and Levine was given the job of designing the game's world and story. Levine said the initial ideas and projects that have later morphed into Dark Camelot, before eventually evolving into The Dark Project, included School of Wizards, Dark Elves Must Die and Better Red Than Undead, the latter of which was "a campy story" about communist zombies. The game was supposed to be a first-person sword fighting simulator, but "the marketing [department] killed the idea," to his disappointment.[52] According to programmer Marc LeBlanc, "The first proposal was Better Red Than Undead, a '50s Cold War game where the Soviet Union is overrun with zombies and you have to go hack them to pieces as the loner from the CIA because bullets don't work on the undead."[53] Doug Church said the game's design was built around the idea "of having factions who you could ally with or oppose yourself with or do things for or not."[54]

However, Looking Glass Studios experienced serious financial trouble as development progressed into mid-1997. The company's Austin branch closed, costing Spector and several game engine programmers; this team relocated to Ion Storm, and released Deus Ex in 2000.[4] Spector later called his impact on Thief, "at best, minimal".[58] Levine too had left The Dark Project project before the Keeper faction was added to the game.[52] By April 18,[59] Looking Glass Studios laid off half of its entire staff in six months, which damaged morale of The Dark Project team, which at this point was vastly different from the one with which the development began. "Few emotions can compare to the stress of heading to work not knowing who might be laid off, including yourself, or whether the doors would be locked when you got there," lead programmer Tom Leonard later said. This stress caused several team members to voluntarily quit, including the lead programmer, Briscoe Rogers,[59] who had designed the game's AI system, which suffered from software bugs and problems with complexity.[4]

Three months before the game's scheduled ship date, most problems had been resolved. The team began to believe, as Leonard described, that Thief "did not stink, [and] might actually be fun." Further, the release of games like Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid eased worries that experimental gameplay styles were unmarketable. According to Leonard, "A new energy revitalized the team. Long hours driven by passion and measured confidence marked the closing months of the project." The game went gold in November 1998, following an estimated 2.5 year development cycle and a $3 million budget.[4]

Thief's graphics received a mixed reaction, with several negative comparisons to Half-Life and Unreal.[76][77][79] However, Andrew Sanchez of Maximum PC praised the game's graphics and noted that the Dark Engine went "feature-for-feature with the LithTech, Quake, and Unreal engines".[64] He also praised the game's AI, sound and plot. Larka disliked the game's extremely dark areas, which required him to "max out the gamma correction and set [his] monitor to its brightest setting just to see the barest details" but called the graphics "seamless".[71] Some reviews complained about collision detection issues.[6][64]

I had a similar question recently. None of the vendors take ONLY dark projects, however as someone mention above: V1C-ORY (Empire side) takes credits and war supplies: invasion force as currency and offers a commander's compendium for dark projects and credits. He stands in the Stronghold and Crew Skills area of the fleet. The other vendor, Captain Karu, sells PvP decorations and has some that can be bought with 5 dark projects & 5 MK3 Universal Prefabs (star ship decorations). This is the vendor I was looking for and she has moved. She is also in the Stronghold/Crew Skills area and stands next to Clem Stato (the cartel market cert decoration vendor). IIRC the two mirror vendors on Republic side are in the same location - not sure what they're called though.

Hi guys, I'm new to thr serie and I've seen that there is 2 version of the game. I saw a guy on YouTube who say that it's better to downgrade the game to the dark project become the new mission aren't that great. So I come you guys, should I play the dark project or gold?

I think you should start working solo and build up the skills so that you can make a real, tangible contribution to your own project. Volunteer projects like these also have a very high turnover of people, so you need to be able to keep the project going when one or more team members leave due to real life reasons.

I believe that Eidos was already on board as a publisher when I came onto the project. It was part of my job to interface with them to keep them up to date on our development progress. -Greg LoPiccolo (2018)

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Thief takes place from a first-person perspective in a 3D environment, with a centered crosshair for camera control. The game's heads-up display (HUD) includes a health bar and a visibility gem; the gem brightens or darkens depending on the visibility of the player character.[1] The game features two separate inventories for weapons and items, displayed in the bottom corners of the screen; the player cycles through the inventories to select objects. Certain parts of the HUD become invisible when not in use.[1] The game takes place in 12 large, lightly scripted levels; this allows for emergent gameplay.[2][3] In each level, the player must complete one or more objectives; these objectives are altered by the player's selected difficulty level. The selected difficulty also changes the level, with harder settings increasing the amount of enemies and making certain paths inaccessible.[4]

However, Thief's graphics received a mixed reaction. The game used 8-bit colour textures at a time when PC games were moving up to 16-bit colour. It is also dark and low contrast, making it difficult to play in lighted rooms. Raising monitor brightness harms the visuals and arguably damages the experience of the game. Its character models and environments were lower in polygon count than other first person shooters of the period. Few reviewers found this an outright negative, many not mentioning it at all. For those that did notice, it did not harm the game; rather it was simply not up to the standard set by its other aspects.[18][21][22][23] 006ab0faaa

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