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mousefountain
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I'm trying to find something and it's really bugging me that I can't.

Here's what I think I recall: the textures for the game Blade of Darkness were hand-painted, like on paper, with oil paint or gouache. The reason I think I remember this is because there used to be a website up with this huge collection of textures to download, much higher resolution versions than were in the game. I want to find this website again. Annoyingly, if I try to find info about this, I just find AI upscaled texture mods for the game 🥴

I believe these textures were used as one of the default texture sets in the Cube 2: Sauerbraten game engine.

I believe the website was the personal website of the artist.

I'm currently looking up every artist who worked on the game and the credits of sauerbraten to see what I can find. It's entirely possible that I'm misremembering what game it was from originally!

But can somebody with good internet sleuth skills help me? I feel more and more like a dumb-ass about digging up info these days, even about things from fairly recent history. Everybody keeps telling me that search is getting worse, but I think it's not just that. My skills have gotten a little rusty so I'd be open to any tips.


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in reply to @mousefountain's post:

I found a set of textures from artist David Gurrea dated 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20080509143709/http://www.davegh.com/blade/davegh.htm

Which was linked in this list of modding resources for Blade of Darkness from 2005-2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20071111214539/http://www.arokhslair.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1806

From a modding community I found a link to in GoG forums while googling for Blade of Darkness mods: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/severance_blade_of_darkness_mods

Edit: ah, you already found em!