VtM: Bloodlines - Project Vaulderie

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Project Vaulderie is a new mod project for Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines with the goal of recreating the entire game using the unity game engine.

What is Project Vaulderie?

Project Vaulderie is a non-commercial project that aims to recreate the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines game to Unity. The goals we try to achieve with this tremendous effort are many. First and foremost is fixing a lot of bugs and glitches which can’t be fixed by normal fan made patches simply because they are caused by the protected executables and the Alpha state of Source Engine used by the game. Secondly, taking advantage of new features available in Unity engine as well of the new SDK tools planned along with it that allows anyone to mod it. Third, updating the game to up to date graphics and technology.

What is Bloodlines Resurgence then?

Bloodlines Resurgence was originally the project that aimed to recreate the game in Source engine. It has always suffered from progressive development, mainly because of the nature on how Source engine works. Source was built based on Half-Life and Quake code, also sharing their similarities on their pipeline. As for modding, the Source SDK always suffered enormous issues, not being updated for years, outdated engine branches and so on. Comparing Source with other modern engines, it’s rather limited in design and pipeline. Support is dropped in favor of the Unity port.

Why Unity?

The reason why we decided to go with Unity is because it’s the closest to get to Source. While there are already tools in development that make porting from Source transparent, minimizing the time for development and pipeline. The key is to develop a game that can take advantage of today’s technology in not only rendering but also in development tools. Unity is well known for its extensive scripting, plugin support and a high vast of tutorials praised by its consumers. Why Unity stands solid grounds Last year we had a small prototype test whether UDK would be more suitable or not. From the time we’ve experimented on it, their pipeline was drastically better than Source’s but it was rather limited when it came to their scripting and art pipeline. Scripting was done only via UnrealScript which is more or less based on C++ and you have little control over replacing parts of the engine since UDK doesn’t provide access to the engine code. That has to be done via licensing the engine itself. Importing the art assets was pretty straightforward, because it is similar to Unity’s, being able to import raw textures and models. But all of them had to be packaged in separate package files which also had its own limitations. On the other hand, in Unity everything is done loosely on the development part. As mentioned earlier, Unity is very expandable and flexible, can support editor extensions and plugins, Importing maps is almost effortless, with an few amount of reconstruction, faster prototyping, in-game preview of the whole scene without leaving the editor and more.
Sounds to ambitious to me, but I hope the team succeeds. If you want to help the team in making the project you can. They are looking for the following help.

Any way we can help?


Right now we’re still trying to set up the framework for most game feature and mechanics. While it’s still in early stages, we’re more than welcome to hear from anyone interested in shaping this classic into the great game it deserves.

We are looking for programmers experienced either with C# or JavaScript, including Unity which would be ideal. We are also looking for texture artists and modelers to improve game assets.
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Even if I doubt it will be finished, I commend it and hope it will.

However what I really want, is proper full blown sequel to Bloodlines set in the same universe (and at least partially in same locations, some years later), made by Obsidian with collaboration of Double Bear.

God damn I would kickstart hundred bucks for this.
 
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Stupid. Much of the charm in this game was the excellent choice of music and the voice acting, both which they obviously can't use.

They're looking at 5-10 years of developing, for free.. This is why these projects very, very rarely works. It's one thing having inspiration to do something "cool" for a month or maybe even for a year, it's a whole different matter having that inspiration for many years, and not just you, but a whole team (all working for free). If they have the knowledge and the ambition they should do their own vampire game (not based on this license), that will be a lot more inspiring + they can make money of it.
 
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For me, there is nothing wrong with the original, and Wesp did an excellent job in fixing the small issues.

The Source game engine maybe not the best, but it looks excellent for its age.

I don't think the game needs a new paint, as its current paint is well maintained and is aged very well. We need more content, or as Vurt said a new game.

Speaking of vampire the masquerade, the World of Darkness MMO is no longer in the making, CCP pulled the plug!
 
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Speaking of vampire the masquerade, the World of Darkness MMO is no longer in the making, CCP pulled the plug!

Yes they did and a few members will be sad about that news. I have a new press release about it that I will post later. So be sure to read it later if anyone is interested.

As for the mod as I said above it sounds to ambitious, but I wish them luck. I also think with their talent they should make their own original vampire RPG game.
 
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Stupid. Much of the charm in this game was the excellent choice of music and the voice acting, both which they obviously can't use.
Couldn't they pull this data from the original game's files?
 
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Couldn't they pull this data from the original game's files?

Depends on how you mean, they obviously can't share it themselves since this is copyrighted material. They could perhaps make some tool that extracts those files and use it directly from the original installation on the users computers.
 
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Even if I doubt it will be finished, I commend it and hope it will.

However what I really want, is proper full blown sequel to Bloodlines set in the same universe (and at least partially in same locations, some years later), made by Obsidian with collaboration of Double Bear.

God damn I would kickstart hundred bucks for this.

Which universe? The old or the new?
 
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