Even though I haven’t had a chance to play it myself, I’ve heard plenty of good things about the turn-based RPG Divinity: Original Sin, which managed to raise a very impressive $944k on Kickstarter last spring. It’s out now, and apparently, it’s the old school fantasy RPG that genre fans have been clamoring for for years.
A game I have played, however, is the classic dungeon crawler Diablo. I spent an inordinate amount of time in that game during my developing years, and I continued to return to it many years after it released.
In just four days, using Divinity’s level editor, Redditor docalypse has rebuilt the fallen town of Tristram. But that’s just the beginning, as this guy is planning on recreating the entire game in a project called Divinity: Inferno. Once Tristram and the first dungeon level are complete, he plans on releasing it as a public demo.
No word yet on whether or not he plans on including the secret cow level. I hope he does, because I have some Hell Bovine to bludgeon.
Here’s more info on what he plans on accomplishing with Divinity: Inferno:
I started this project 4 days ago on a whim to test the Divinity Engine and found I really enjoyed it. So, I’ve decided to create my first large mod for Divinity: Original Sin. It will be called Diablo: Original Sin (subject to change) and here’s what I have planned:
26 hand-crafted levels, including the Hellfire xpack levels, ranging from 64x64m to 512x512m
New quests (no handholding minimap marks or map markers)
Traps to detroy your party (they can be disarmed or destroyed from a distance, good thing you have that rogue in your party to locate those traps…)
lockpicking doors to secret areas
high perception ratings to discover more secret areas
co-op puzzles to reach new areas (read your lore to find clues)
hand-placed unique items
1-4 player co-op (or take solo control over your own party of 2-4)
Full dialogue and lore through books
music from D1 and maybe D2 since this is a turn based cRPG engine (battle music, atmosphere music)
dark gritty world, dark gritty dungeons
