I have also plans for a small interactive "museum guide" for this terrain that will be bundled with the terrains release where you can learn about the fortifications and all the background information I have gathered over the course of this project. Actually this is one of the big reasons I am actually making this terrain: I want this to serve as a great new medium for exploring history: It is visually present, easy to access, explore and interact with. It is - if at all - just briefly mentioned as a side note in history lessons when the Berlin Wall is brought up as a topic, which is again not done everywhere on the world. I am actually so confident about these that I have planned to write and produce a small documentary about the Inner German border in this sector during 1983, the time where the fortifications were the deadliest. I believe this border complex is a very unknown part of history. I have studied these border fortifications very closely, and I am extremely satisfied with their authenticity. However, I am still on the fence about this. Worst of all, I don't know what I can do against this other than not release it, which I don't want to do. My heart in this project is military cold war gone hot, the original Arma/OFP type of game.Īnd it really sickens me that I am already receiving requests about "free use" of my terrain from these types of communities. I absolutely WILL NOT allow any of these. Or other related RPG events around this, along the lines of "East German Life" and other such things. This makes me multiple-sad, as not only will my work be exploited for monetary gain, but I am also very sure that stupid, disrespectful - and worst of all - very inaccurate "escape" missions trying to "simulate" an escape from East Germany into West Germany will be made. While I am loving all the progress I am making and and I am indeed steadily approaching the final state, I get more and more worried about how this massive new library of assets will be abused by the various people who do not care about content owner's rights and will plunge in happily exploiting my work on their monetized roleplay server communities.
In fact, 32 of 46 in total are built.Īs I am progressing through these I am finishing up my assets as well (All buildings have fully modeled interiors and I have already begun making partial destruction states).
By now a majority of the settlements on this massive 20.48 x 20.48km terrain have been assembled.