I recently read about this upcoming Dark Mod for Doom3 and realised, that the world didn't have another Thief-title for a while now.
Thief 3 appeared to be slightly disappointing, especially AI seemed to be lacking something. And after I saw some screens of DarkPlaces in Quake1, I thought, it would be the perfect backbone for an OpenSource-Thief-styled game.
Here's a screenie comparison between the Thief games and LordHavoc's Quake pics.

Thief 2 - The Metal Age
Thief 3 - Deadly Shadows Screenie1 Screenie2 Screenie3
DarkPlaces Quake Screenie1 Screenie2 Screenie3

Imho these look quite comparable. At least the level of darkness is very similar.
I can say, that I've played every existing Thief game, including the ThieveryUT-Mod, which had a very enjoyable and innovative multiplayer mode.
An OpenSource-version of this heavily underrated type of game could become pretty popular (since there are no attemps to continue the franchise afaik) and would be simply awesome.

Here's my first concept.

nice. maybe not for nex, but your own game.?

Mizu Kitsune wrote:nice. maybe not for nex, but your own game.?

Well... what are the gameplay mechanics of thief? Maybe thief-mutator w/nexuiz weapons could be viable?

Stealth-based gameplay could be nothing less than a total conversion, Nexuiz' existing weapons are far too lethal in function.

DarkMod will eventually become standalone when iD Tech 4 is released as FOSS.

TVR wrote:Stealth-based gameplay could be nothing less than a total conversion, Nexuiz' existing weapons are far too lethal in function.

DarkMod will eventually become standalone when iD Tech 4 is released as FOSS.

Will they FOSS it?

tundramagi wrote:

TVR wrote:Stealth-based gameplay could be nothing less than a total conversion, Nexuiz' existing weapons are far too lethal in function.

DarkMod will eventually become standalone when iD Tech 4 is released as FOSS.

Will they FOSS it?

Wiki says:

"At the QuakeCon 2007, John Carmack, the lead graphics engine developer at id, said to LinuxGames: "I mean, I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open source." And like its predecessors, John Carmack has said that id Tech 4 will be released as open source"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_tech_4#cite_note-3

I think that part about it already having released is incorrect though, I've not seen that anywhere else.

But it is basically certain that ID4 will be released as FOSS, just like the previous three have, both because of those releases and the above quote.