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[GothicArchive]
CHANGELOG
© PhoenixTales

Note: The 1.0 release is intended for the day at which we can legally include all GOTHIC stuff that is out there (builds, comic, demos, design docs, sourcecode and so on). Created & currently maintained by lali.

Todo for future versions; help is appreciated:

Add the remaining reviews from Odins chronology
Collect and add all post-release interviews

Fix english version of gothicthegame.com
Add Sources to research/inspirations.txt
Add Sequel News to postrelease/
Include Sequel Research
Get the permission to include the Comic
Add the Comic Page from Ideenschmiede Paul & Paul
Add/reconstruct Vadims Gothic pages (old & new)
Include Phantoms Interview with Mike
Include Martins Gothic Report (allowed ~2022)

[ 0.7.1 ]

Added Flatcher Goth's Map Evolution Artworks to research/worldmap/ and replaced the old maps by Vaana inside the worldmap.html with his improved maps.

Cleaned the CSS
Updated the README
Added a PressKit (Website on CD and the attached letter) from 2001 to promotion/ (thanks to an anonymous source)
Reconstructed e-comix.de/gothic/ website (src)
Integrated Gothic Archive Ascii logo v2 into changelog
Added additional graphical link to Uwe Meier's Refined Models
Improved the grapical link to Uwe Meier's paintings
Improved the graphical link to Mike's concept art
Added various cover scans (thanks to gogothic.ru):

Snowball 2 CD Jewel Case (ru)
Snowball 2 CD DVD Box (ru)
Bestway 2 CD Jewel Case (ru)
Bestway 2 CD DVD Box (ru)
Xicat Interactive 2 CD Retail Box (en)

Added russian manual (Gothic-Manual_ru.pdf) to documents/ created from .jpg's thanks to gogothic.ru (as included in the snowball dvd box edition)
Added donate button to liberapay

Changes in screenshots/orderedbylocation/:

Replaced a screen with a higher quality one (d6uhR4vkFFI.jpg -> ects14b.jpg in surface/OM/)
Added a screenshot to oldcamp (n3.jpg)
Created a new overview page (screenshots/orderedbylocation.html)

Added a new easteregg (handbook) that I found to research/secrets(.html)/
Reordered several testlevel screens (thanks to Vanna)
Created graphical link to the PB presentation
Added content to developers/piranhabytes/

Early Piranha Bytes team structure
A collection of team pictures
Motion Capturing
Early Devlog from Piranha Bytes' website
Piranha Bytes Company & Team Presentation
Piranha Bytes Job Section

Improved display and added maps to research/worldmap.html

Recreated the ASCII Logo
Updated Gothic Archive Logo
Created a G2 Pre-Alpha Section due to high demand
Added Beta Music and Pre-Alpha Music by KaiRo to music/ (most of those tracks were never published before)
Added low-poly reference by Uwe Meier to artworks/sequel/
Added .mp4's to artworks/vadim/videos/ to directly display videos inside the .html (thanks to ThielHater)
Included the Concept Art part with Mikes design folders from KaiRos Livestream to postrelease/interviews/
Added Herr Mannelig Unplugged to promotion/inex(.html)/
Added version numbers to menu/loading.html (artworks/)

Added new graphics to the graphical links:

Four founders of PB as link to the planned team picture section
A photo by Sascha Henrichs as link to the devlogs

Added NBC Giga X-Stream Website to previews/ (the 3 clips linked in it are lost; web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20000817184155/http://giga.de/x-stream/archives/g/gothic/index.html)
Added 14 concept arts to conceptart/mike(.html)/:

2 Concept Arts from the Artbook (4friends.jpg & mikecharsketches.jpg)
12 Concept Arts from the Phoenix Pitch (Phoenix_the_3D_Realtime_RPG_**.jpg)

Changed the graphical Nyx-Link to our new page phoenixthegame.com & added link in post-release
Updated the Phoenix Tales logo in the footer
Fixed display of the favicon in the screenshot section
Added artbookscreenshot.jpg to Screenshots (1997-07-1999-08 / OldCamp)
Added higher resolution image of the Waran Princess to artworks/uwemeier/ [Uwes_Boris-Homage1.jpg, paintings.html] (thanks to ThielHater)
Added three concept arts to conceptart/tomthiel/ - 1.jpg, gorn.jpg, Milten.jpg (thanks to ThielHater)
Added OrcRunes.ttf to postrelease/fonts/, created by EvilTwin
Added description on the Logo development to artworks/logo(.html)/
Added the Gothic Logo used in the english Manual to artworks/logo(.html)/ and improved the Logo 2001a (thanks to LordRiisis)
Added loading(.html)/ to artworks/ including 6 loading screens known to be used in the game + one screen (Logo_2.JPG) similar to the 1.01 loading screen, probably older, from an unknown source (thanks to ThielHater)
Added Demo4 Menu & 0.64b Menu Screenshot to artworks/menu(.html)/
Added higher resolution Comic Cover to promotion/comic/ (thanks to ThielHater)
Added comic.html to promotion/ including the Comic Preview Images without the soulsofgothic watermark (thanks to ThielHater).
Added soulsofgothic/ to promotion/comic/, including some pages of the Gothic Comic most released prior to its release (thanks to ThielHater).
Added two new docs to research/docs/:
- Gothic-Early_Background_Info.doc by Phantom
- Gothic-Editions.pdf by Gor
Updated two documents in research/docs by Phantom:
- Gothic-Cut_Unused_Changed_Content_ru.doc
- Gothic-Demoversions.doc
Added new hover effect for images in the graphical navigation
Added 'EarlyOreArmor_Artbook.jpg' to artworks/npcs/

Added SystemPack versions 1.1, 1.5 and 1.6 to postrelease/patches/ (thanks to ThielHater).
Added Patch 1.08j (gothic-patch1.08j.exe) to postrelease/patches/ (thanks to ThielHater).
Added two new images to artworks/uwemeier/, "Weltpanorama (Nacht).jpg" and "Weltpanorama (Tag).jpg" (slightly different than the other ones; thanks to ThielHater).

Added link to OpenGothic to /postrelease/engine/
switched bild6.jpg from artworks/unknown to uwemeier/ and dissolved unknown/ in artworks/, thanks to Ralf Marczinczik
switched 8be5e2801dbe012ec43aeb6b95929444.jpg, bild3.jpg, e91bfbfe4c76186cdecdff2ce5bb2162.jpg & Td3OleDfighter1.jpg from conceptarts/unknown/ to mike/ and dissolved unknown/ in conceptarts/, thanks to Ralf Marczinczik

Transformed changelog.txt into a .html (to have correct formatting regardless of screen size)

Added english demo v1.08j (thanks to Vaana)
Added more phenomedia docs (documents/phenomedia.zip) and the german version of the annual report 1999 specifically (thanks to Vaana)
Fixed a mistake: Uwe Maier -> Uwe Meier

[ 0.7 ]

Added scans of the original Phoenix (Gothic) Pitch (thanks to Martin Dietrich, Mike Hoge and GameStar)
Improved /research/secrets.html:

All comparison pictures are now animated .gifs
Credits for Don-Esteban for finding Gomez' Armor model
Added the 'place of resurrection' and its inspiration
Added KaiRos NightSky texture Easteregg (thanks Tyra)
Added info about Uriziels internal name (Mythrilklinge)
Added hidden messages translated from orcish found on textures and covers (thanks to Flatcher Goth; more info here: https://worldofplayers.ru/threads/41280/)

Replaced many artworks with originals from 1999 and 2000 in higher quality:

Most Babe artworks (/artworks/babes/)
Most Monster artworks (/artworks/monsters/)
Some refined artworks (/artworks/uwemaier/refinedmodels/)
Some NPC artworks (/artworks/npcs/)
Uwes_Baron_Babes.jpg (/artworks/uwemaier/)

Added CrawlerQueen.jpg to /artworks/monsters/
Added Troll2.jpg to /artworks/monsters/ (partly refined)
Added Guru_medium.jpg to /artworks/npcs/ (forgot this)
Added gorn.jpg to /artworks/tomthiel/ (high resolution)
Added a photo of a flyer to /promotion/the13thwarrior/ which was part of the first german edition of Gothic (thanks to Sternchenfarbe)
Added two converted videos to /previews/videos/ which we do not yet have in original quality:

PCAction_GothicPreview1999.mp4
Gothic-Preview_Gamestar-0301.mp4

Added a few previews:

03/01: PC Player | Gameswelt | 4players GIGA Game TV | gamespot.co.uk
09/01: justadventure.com
10/01: gamersuplink.com | gamerspulse.com intelgamer.com | gamespot.com

Added reviews (collected by Odin68):

GameStar 03/01
Gameswelt 03/01
mystics.de 03/01
gamedesk.de 03/01
GIGA Game TV 03/01
krawall.de 03/01
raffs.de 03/01
gzone.de 03/01
gamecaptain.de 03/01
gamesmania.de 03/01
PC Action 04/01 / Video
Computer Bild Spiele 04/01
PC Games 04/01
PC Player 04/01
GamersUnitedNetwork.de 04/01
topofgames.de 04/01
Gamigo.de 04/01
Computer Bild Spiele 05/01
soulofgothic.4players.de 05/01
rpgdot.com 05/01
Computer Bild Spiele 06/01
ComputerspieleTotal.de 06/01
bonusweb.cz 06/01
PCPlayer 06/01
houseospank.com 11/01

Added interview to /postrelease/interviews/:

State_thestate.fsnet.co.uk 11/01

Added a download link to the whole archive (.zip). Thank you to Don-Esteban & World of Gothic.

Changed /conceptart/ralf/characters.html to armors.html
Added five images to /conceptart/ralf/:

Helme.jpg & 963.jpg to armors.html
372.jpg & 373.jpg to psicamp.html
962.jpg to /symbols (new)

Updated the Gothic Alpha Cut Content Documentation
Added inspirations.txt to /research
Added NicoDEVersions.txt to /research/versionhistory/
Added Cross Promotion Section to /promotion including

In Extremo/
The 13th Warrior (Poster & Trailer) [from the Gothic CD, thanks to Tyra]

Added G1_Int.jpg to artworks/cover.html
Replaced mask6.jpg in artworks/sleepermask/ with sleeper.png (official art with higher resolution)
Added "Poster Kopie.jpg" to promotion/printmedia/
Added /installer/Gothic.jpg to /artworks (thanks to Tyra)
Added /box_design to /artworks (german Box/CD Artworks)
Added /patchnotes to /postrelease/patches/ (incomplete)
Added all official Demos (which are known to me) to demos/
Added g1_int_reviews.doc to postrelease/reviews/ (author unknown)
Added g1-production.pdf to /research/docs/ (author unknown)
Added four videos to /previews/videos/ original quality, thanks to Vaana)

GameStar Video Special 09/1999
PC Games Videoreportage 11/1999
PC Player Preview 03/2001
PC Games Preview 03/2001

Added a video to postrelease/reviews/videos/
PC Action Review 04/2001
Improved research/secrets.html:

Added a link (there was only a graphical link before)
Added possible meaning of the sword texture inscription
Added section "Homages" (Mud, Steve, Charlotte, Netbek)
Added section on Marvin / 42 / 'What was the question?'

Added three original .psd files to /artworks/npcs/_psd/

Added new documentations by Phantom95 to /research

Gothic Alpha Cut Content Documentation
Gothic Demo Documentation

Added a Tree View (pure CSS) to the archive list

Simplified the whole archive structure
Reduced the overall number of stylesheets
Simplified every .html file
fixed favicon display

Finally structured the Screenshots to add new section /screenshots/orderedbylocation/

Added dynamic resizing of the layout for smaller screens and a new layout for mobile screens through pure CSS

[ 0.6 ]

Added a new article to /PostRelease Research by Vaana on the relation between CodeCreatures and Genome Engine

Added list of unused content in Sequel build 1.12f by Phantom95

Added new Company Logos to /Misc

Greenwood Entertainment
Xicat Interactive
Interwise Multimedia

Added a World Development Section to Research/ with maps created by Vaana to show how the world most likely was looking like at different stages of development and a modified version of the first Orpheus map (as shown by Mike Hoge), made by Nex.

Added chinese patch 1.08j (thanks to Rodrigues)
Added a russian manual and readme.htm (thanks to Rodrigues)
Added a logo and a picture to InExtremo/ (inex.html)
Added Screenshots to InExtremo/ (inex.html)
Added new more or less original images to gothicthegame.com

krieger.jpg & shamane.jpg in the Orc Special (special4.htm);
sfrightened.jpg, shappy.jpg, shostile.jpg, sneutral.jpg, sspeaking.jpg (but under different names, as used on the site) to the screen page plus the four screens of the four friends as they seem to belong there too (screensb.htm and screens2.htm)

Added new reconstructions of images to gothicthegame.com

A reconstruction of the small and normal lamp symbols used throughout the design (made from gothic fire textures; I have no idea how they looked like originally though); same case with the border graphic ("strich1.jpg"), made from a graphic used on an old piranha-bytes web design.
6 german banners reconstructed by me (Die Story, Die Screenshots, Die Features, Die Presse, Die News, Die Downloads)
4 Images in the Orc Special (special4.htm)
2 Images in the Goblin Special (special7.htm)
1 Image in the E3 Special (special8.htm)
8 images in "Music" (music.htm, now complete)

Added transcripts of the Video interview 'Kamingespräch mit Tom Putzki' (18.08.17), Part 01 and 02

[ 0.5 ]

First official release.

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