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Ted Litchfield

A 17-year-old Arkane gem's modders got 'completely blank check' approval from Ubisoft to add co-op, mod tools, and ray tracing

Dark Messiah

I've sometimes worried that I'm the only person who remembers Arkane's sophomore outing: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a more fun and loose take on the immersive sim where you get to lead guys into slapstick traps and kick orcs off high ledges. That's far from the case though, as the wiltOS modding team has been working for years now to breathe new life into the game, and they've even gotten the all-clear from Ubisoft to do so.

The project, headed by David Wiltos (nice) started with adding co-op to the game, but the amount of tinkering that required forced the team to reverse-engineer more fully-fledged mod tools for it, leading to a secondary goal of producing a fully-functioning software development kit (SDK) for other modders.

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