DUSK might have a little bit of a renaissance forward, because the developer New Blood Interactive introduced it’s launched the non-compulsory DUSK HD remaster of the sport. Its goal is twofold: to have a good time the sport’s fifth anniversary, and the discharge of its software program growth equipment and the accompanying Steam Workshop help.

“What began as a enjoyable option to beef up the DUSK Steam Workshop,” says the announcement from New Blood Interactive, “quickly advanced right into a full-blown visible remaster because of the laborious work of a bunch of very proficient builders at New Blood below the supervision of David Szymanski, myself (Dave), our QA Lead Cam, Dev Help Lead Scott, and the remainder of the New Blood crew.”

Citing extraordinarily constructive responses from the DUSK neighborhood, New Blood explains that the studio determined to take DUSK HD a step additional than initially deliberate. The tip consequence? DUSK HD is now not only a Steam Workshop obtain, however a free DLC with its personal Steam Retailer web page.

DUSK’s modding scene is about to kick off

Although the discharge of the DUSK software program growth equipment, DUSK HD, and Nightfall‘s official Steam Workshop are big steps ahead for the sport’s modding scene, New Blood Interactive guarantees that there’s heaps extra the place that got here from. Notably, the present model of the DUSK SDK is, certainly, accessible for anybody to peruse and construct customized maps (to the purpose the place the sport helps Quake and Half-Life ranges by default), together with customized texturework and audio.

Nevertheless, modders can anticipate an much more complete model of the SDK to come back out in just a few weeks’ time, permitting them to implement customized enemies, weapons, and entities into the sport. Which means traditional shooter followers have a lot to stay up for within the context of DUSK and its Workshop.

What’s actually neat right here is that New Blood Interactive didn’t fail to spotlight the efforts of Ben “Zombie” Moir and David “Garumin” Bonin, who’ve rewritten DUSK from the bottom up and remade the sport’s visible belongings, respectively. “Unbeknownst to [Zombie and Garumin], all of the income from DUSK for the month of December 2023 shall be cut up between David and Ben,” says the weblog.

Lastly, the weblog additionally factors out that New Blood Interactive has employed three new builders because of their efforts in producing DUSK HD: Cody Lambert, Dom Antonazzo, and Lachlan Milne. The three will proceed working for New Blood “throughout all [their] video games” sooner or later, signing off on a really promising future for the studio.