Deus Ex: Apocalypse Inside – When The World Is On Your Shoulders, Is It Worth Saving?

Apocalypse Inside

When The World Is On Your Shoulders Is It Worth Saving?

"In the beginning [Warren] envisioned the game as X-Files but he somehow ended up with James Bond"

Apocalypse Inside is born from the back-story of the Deus Ex saga. It revives the content of Deus Ex that didn't make it into the game, including story elements, levels, textures and characters.

Artem "Tantalus" D - Project director, Lead Writer, Lead Level Designer, Texture Designer, Programmer, Soundtrack

Dmitriy "CorpArmstrong" Fedykovych - Senior Programmer, Writer, Assistant Level Designer, Soundtrack

Evgeniy "JJoe" Bortnik - Programmer, 3D Modeller, Assistant Level Designer

Andrievskaya Veronika - Additional level design, consultant.

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Story and dialogs
The story is written, but about a half of the dialogues is left to do
Level design
Some single maps are mostly playable
Code
We wrote most of the new functionality, the code can be reused throughout the game
Soundtrack
New music mostly, original game tracks here and there

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What makes Apocalypse Inside unique

Characters

Harvey Smith: To me, the answer is "fewer characters equals deeper characters." We just tried to do too much. I'd rather have made the game 75% in length, but deeper.

New Characters

Tantalus

The protagonist

My name is Tantalus Denton. It’s been my codename for so long I don’t even remember my real name. My story is one that many, in distrust, would call a creation of a paranoid mind; others will find it an entertaining script, and yet others will see answers.

Magdalene

The damsel in distress

Females Fight for Equal Representation in Gaming: GameSpy: Anna, Nicollette Duclare, and Maggie Chow (and Sandra, to a smaller degree) are the only female characters of any importance to the story arc. It has been commented that Deus Ex lacked “equal representation.” What would you have done differently to remedy that problem? Harvey: Well, for one, I wish we’d had female team members. That would have helped. The team just grew up organically (and rapidly) out of connections with friends and from inheriting an art staff from Ion Storm’s Dallas office. We didn’t start out thinking about diversity in that way, which I regret. One of our goals this time is a “more interesting, diverse” cast of characters. I believe that a more diverse company has the potential to create a more diverse (and interesting) game.

Corporal armstrong

The soldier

UNATCO Special Operations Group, company B, Fifth platoon, Alpha squad. Loyal, but not naive. A true soldier in heart, action and language.

Dr. Johnson

An aged Gordon Freeman

An outstanding polymath, Dr. Joe Johnson holds 15 Masters degrees and 5 Doctorate.

Dr Mephistopheles

The freemason

Born and raised on the space station, Dr ‘Mephistopheles’ Munroe is the most eccentric of Ophelia’s staff.

Captain Valiante

The captain

Travel the world and seven seas

A native of Brazil, Henrique Valiante is a powerful man, though he never leaves his vessel. If Ophelia was a religion, Captain Valiante would be her high priest.