Titanic: Honor and Glory

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Titanic: Honor and Glory is a video game currently under development by Vintage Digital Revival. The game is expected to feature the most accurate digital representation of the RMS Titanic to date, as well as a model of the city of Southampton in 1912.^[3] The game is intended to be not only entertaining but also a historical teaching tool, and a memorial to all those who lost their lives in the disaster.^[4][5][6] The project was originally funded through crowdfunding on Indiegogo and other sites. However, during a podcast on April 10, 2015, director Thomas Lynskey announced that the team would move away from crowdfunding in order to focus more on the game's development.^[7] On April 10, 2021 it was officially announced that Tom had left the project to pursue other ventures.^[8] On April 24th 2021 the Alpha version was set to release Q4 of 2021 ^[9]

Gameplay[]

Originally, the game's story was to focus on a fictional 23-year-old American Oxford University graduate named Owen Robert Morgan. After being mistaken for an international criminal, he must board the RMS Titanic in an effort to clear his name and to find the real culprits. Once the player boarded the ship, the player would have needed to perform certain tasks of a real crewman and secure a cabin of his own. Once the Titanic hits the iceberg, the player would have had two hours and forty minutes to completely solve the mystery.^[10]

There were three additional game modes originally planned to be included in the game.^[10] The most prominent was Tour Mode, which would have allowed the player to explore both the ship and the city of Greater Southampton at their leisure without the restrictions of Story Mode. The next mode, Simulator Mode, would have given the player the opportunity to sail the RMS Titanic and possibly other ships on the open ocean, such as Titanic's sister ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. The third, Multiplayer Mode, was expected to include two sub-modes: Sinking Mode and Voyage Mode. The latter would have allowed players to experience the Titanic together. Deck games and passenger services would also be available.

With the departure of Tom Lynskey from the project, these plans were scrapped in favor of a different direction for the game.

Development[]

Development of the game began in November 2012, after the cancellation of the Titanic: Lost in the Darkness mod for Crysis 2. On December 25, 2012, the first preview of the game was released, showing a fly through of the Grand Staircase and using CryEngine 3 to develop the game; the team has since switched to Unreal Engine 4.

On March 7, 2015 the first preview of the game in Unreal Engine 4 was uploaded to YouTube. It showed an early sinking animation of the D-Deck Reception in close to real-time.^[11] On April 7, 2015, a playable walk-through demo was released, which featured a few select areas of the ship including the D-Deck Reception, Scotland Road, and the Turkish Bath. The numerous demos can be downloaded from the official homepage. On July 30, 2015, a podcast was held to provide updates on the project. During the podcast, several preview screenshots of the current state of the Grand Staircase were released. That same day, the official forums were launched. By the next day, however, the forums had been taken down for unknown reasons. As of January 1, 2016, the forums are still unavailable. In November 2015, game producers Thomas Lynskey and Matthew DeWinkeleer went on an 11-day research trip to England. Highlights of the trip included visiting the Grapes Pub in Southampton, which is to be depicted in the game, and measuring the wooden paneling of the RMS Olympic's original first class lounge which serves as the dining room of the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick.^[12]

On April 14, 2016, the team uploaded a real-time animation video showing the sinking of the Titanic to their official YouTube channel to coincide with the 104th anniversary of the tragedy. That same evening, a live podcast was held in which the team commented on the video as they and the listeners watched it together.^[13] The video received coverage on many news websites.^[14][15] By the end of the month the video had accumulated almost 7 million views (as of September 2021 over 75 million), and it has received an overall positive reception from historians and the public alike. Ken Marschall wrote a message to them expressing that, even as an artist and historian, he got a fresh perspective on the ship's sinking after watching their video during the podcast.^[16]

On July 1, 2019, the team announced their partnership with "5518 Studios", a video game art-house, to develop the NPCs based on historical characters.^[17][18]

One of the historical consultants of the game, Bill Sauder, also was a consultant on both the 1996 computer game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time and the 1997 film Titanic,^[19] as well as an expert panelist on National Geographic's 2012 television special Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron.

In researching the project, the team would track down obscure artifacts or preserved pieces of Titanic's sister ship Olympic in order to ensure proper recreations. The team has made several discoveries which have been announced and released, including the layout of certain areas of the ship, the colors of different items^{[citation needed]} and the revelation of a different design in the windows between the first class dining and reception rooms.^[20] They have also proposed that the lookouts were not the first to see the iceberg, and announced their intention to include this hypothesis in their recreation.^[21]

A sister project entitled was released on Steam in 2020 in the form of a walk-around simulation of the HMHS Britannic. In addition to having support for virtual reality headsets, the demo also features Britannic in both her civilian and hospital ship configurations.

On April 10th 2021, in a livestream by the THG team, it was stated that an Alpha version of Titanic: Honor and Glory will be released in 2021. Areas on the Titanic will gradually be released in sections with regular updates, and the alpha will be free. It will include: tour mode, 100% explorable Titanic (eventually), log entries, and collectibles.^[22]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Titanic: Honor and Glory on Facebook
• Titanic: Honor and Glory's channel on YouTube