#thief the dark project

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

#if i had a laptop and the skillset i would attempt a story mod because the thief modders who create whole mission stories #are GENIUS and also somewhat terrifying. love them! xoxox #anyway im actually kind of obsessed with parts of thi4f but its also like. not at that sweet spot of almost good enough to be fun #to talk about. which. for the record. has not stopped me from talking about it at length to people #the city itself actually fucking fascinates me. its almost alive and im SO mad that not a single part of that game is actually terrifying #it should be gnarlier and instead it feels a bit like it doesn't quite want to be trapped in the story it has to tell? #but between the level that has the bodies on the meathooks #and the scene with the bodies hanging from the rafters or whatever that was and garrett living in a clock tower #because the game is very much ALMOST about changing times and authoritarian violence and capitalism #(like. by virtue of how the story sort of spins out i think it misses it's mark on a lot of stuff here #in the sense that i dont feel like it actually wants to tell that story. it wants to. go in a different direction. or at least walk on top #of those themes instead of through it) #ANYWAY between all of those things. it does kind of live in my head rent free. they did create a compelling setting #SHAME THEY DIDNT WANT TO ACTUALLY EAT ANY OF IT #unrelated but i would've given thi4f a 10/10 if they kept garrett's fucking nail polish from the concept art. cowards. unforgivable #thief the dark project #i still have no idea how to tag the game series as a whole RIP #sorry for the dedicated dark project fans. if you know what the general series tag is. please let me know #garrett thief #basso thief

[rad-roche]

a while back i took a stab at painting garrett in the style of cédric peyravernay, who you may recognise from the dishonored series. it's been some time, so i thought i'd do a paintover to track my progress

here's the original, from about a year and a half ago

#rochedotpng #thief the dark project #thief the metal age #garrett #dishonored #i remember being very proud of that first one #makin progress. i'll tell you this for free: i'm not where i want to be but i'm a damn sight closer than i was #if you have no idea who this is then do i have a smash hit video game series for you #(thief is fantastic)

[void-metallurgy]

Is anyone there? Must've been the wind...

#thief #thief the dark project #thief gold #thief garrett #thief game #garret fanart #thief fanart #pixel art

[neloangelo]

Thief: The Dark Project

The Sword

#thief #thief the dark project #thief game #garrett thief #thief: the dark project #i love this place #***

[balamist]

Played Thief Gold. It was great.

#refused to google Garrett's T1 design. in my heart he's just a little guy in a big cloak #also i just noticed that i drew Constantine's hooves the other way around lmao i was thinking about horses for some reason #thief the dark project #thief gold #garrett #thief garrett #thief game #thief tdp #what is art? a miserable little pile of pixels #thief tag

[godginrai]

Thief: The Black Parade (2023, Feuillade Industries)

#thief #thief the dark project #thief gold #thief the black parade

[kirbyddd]

probably my favorite esoteric piece of Thief media is this "Interview with Garrett" some game magazine did (with garrett's responses actually written by the game's writer), and the interviewer asks why garrett's shoes make so much noise cloppin around when he's trying to be stealthy and garrett's like "these fine leather boots are the most exquisite ive ever seen.... i stole them from a noble and couldn't let them go...... i never take them off....."

the idea of garrett, who despises anything ostentatious and wears clothes so filthy his smell gives him away before his sound does, stealing a pair of shoes so beautiful he refuses to wear anything else ever again, even though they're tapdancing shoes and he sneaks around for a living, still slays me

#you cant really call it canon but what IS canon is Garrett's little quirks and sentiments that he tries to pretend he's better than #he would totally admire a pair of fine crafted boots when no one was looking #alright we canonizing interview with garrett in this house #thief the dark project #thief ii the metal age #although he does have a sense of style #after snapping out of his brooding era in The Dark Project he buys nicer clothes and starts decorating his tenement n stuff #he starts reconnecting with himself awwww #honestly though garrett's subtle development through both Dark Project and Metal Age is one of the high achievements of video game writing #but that's like saying one stained glass window of notre dame is a high achievement of architecture #thief is a juggernaut

[areggos-art-dump]

garrett

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#gaming fanart #art #thief #thief the dark project #thief the metal age #thief ii #thief 2 #thief deadly shadows #garrett #garrett thief #uhhhhhhhh :)

[jeanivere]

quick little young garrett redraw/painting practice

i never paint or color any of my pieces so i thought i'd just do it cuz i kinda suck and need the practice also i just like drawing garrett

#garrett thief #fanart #thief gold #thief series #digital art #my art #thief game #thief the dark project #forgive me for not drawing his hand #i simply didnt feel like doing that #also i tried doing this in the og color palette first #instead of doing it in grayscale #and it made me sob and rip my hair out #anyway baby garrett #he has been yassified #sorry shrug emoji

[mielleillustrations]

Been playing Thief Gold for the first time & having an absolute blast so here’s some very quick sketches of Garrett.

#not sure about the lad’s canon look i’m going off of the first game’s cover & my own interpretation #thief #thief game #thief gold #thief the metal age #thief the dark project #thief garrett #art #traditional art #sketch #sketchbook

[bees-tes-blog]

how its going

#buzz #thiefposting #thief the dark project #the archive #im only on the first mission I have no idea what I’m doing other than my previous knowledge of t3

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @ce1erywheat

#thief #thief the dark project #video games #gaming #video game polls #polls #tumblr polls #stealth

[rad-roche]

baby's first likeness!! also my first time sculpting eyes so do not mind the SEVERELY scuffed nature of them i've gotta get some mileage under my belt before those'll look better. don't mind the lack of ears either i sculpted them and they turned inside out and made blender crash. i don't know why. they're on vacation for now

#rochedotpng #garrett #thief the dark project #thief the metal age #the proportions on this are a little wonky also but that's easy fixed #i am a complete blender novice so i am fully throwing shit at the wall #this could look much better but i'll say this. it could look a lot lot worse #WIP

[d4rkcamelot]

evil thing

#garrett thief #thief the metal age #thief the dark project #thief #my art

[neloangelo]

Thief: The Dark Project

Lord Bafford's Manor

#thief #thief the dark project #thief game #garrett thief #thief: the dark project #i’m replaying this with hd textures and it’s all i care about right now #***

[balamist]

#'So. Who stole it. I'm not mad. I just wanna know' #thief game #thief the dark project #thief the metal age #thief deadly shadows #thief tdp #thief tma #thief ds #thief 2014 #thi4f #thief garrett #garrett #what is art? a miserable little pile of pixels #games tag #thief tag