SonderKommando Revolt
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Realistic in-work wolf3d mod based on real WWII revolt of Jewish SonderKommando against the Nazis. First part of the planned trilogy of mods, the other parts of the series being SonderKommando 2 - Warsaw Uprising and SonderKommando 3 - Mission:Treblinka (renamed later to "Road to Treblinka"). The SDL version of the mod was based on WolfDX engine by Tricob (which is based on Wolf4SDL engine) - but has so many unique coding features of its own that can stand as a separate engine, and is known under the name "Sonder4SDL engine". This new engine, once finished will be the base for the two sequels as well.
The mod was born as an idea of DoomJedi's to try and recreate in the Wolf3D engine what he believes to be his previous incarnation as a Jewish boy. He believes the boy was executed in Auschwitz extermination camp during the Holocaust. SonderKommando Revolt recreates this scenario, but this time changes the events so that the boy stays alive instead of being executed - and manages to start a revolt against the Nazis and blow up the new crematorium. Revenge, oh sweet revenge!
Project "officially" started: 04.2007 (actually much earlier)
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Team
- DoomJedi: Story, Graphics, and Project Management
- WLHack: 16-bit version of the game
- Tricob: Wolf4SDL-based code and Mapping
- AlumiuN: Wolf4SDL-based coding
- RonWolf1705: Mapping
- Dean: Mapping
Coding features
SDL engine, distance shading, textured floors/ceiling, weapon bobbing, parallaxed skies, directional scenery, 4 keys and 8 unique doors, animated scenery, destructable scenery (barrels etc...), ambient sounds, extra-large VSWAP, interactive textures, damaging floors/ceilings/objects, mines, medkit, inventory, walking prisoners, weather effects (snow/rain), wall patches...and many many more.
Weapons:
- 1. Knife / Inventory 1/ Inventory 2
- 2. Luger
- 3. MP40
- 4. Chaingun
- 5. Gewehr 41 Sniper Rifle
- 6. Secret weapon
- + semi-secret weapon (doesn't have a number slot)
Sonder in numbers:
- 29 large, intensive, well-decorated, realistic levels (+ some secret levels + many bonus levels)
- 446 WallNums count
- 1011 SpriteNums count
- 8 Bosses
- 12 Enemy types, including miniBoss and some rare-used enemies
- 6 inventory types
- 7 Weapons
- 5 different skies
Story
It is 1944 and you are Zalmen Gradowski, 31, Jewish, born in a small village in Ukraine.
Because of your un-cleanness, you have been taken by the Nazi's to Auschwitz extermination camp.
A short while after arriving you joined a SonderKommando unit dedicated to disrupting Nazi control of the camp.
The group consisted of half dozen members and have made plans to start a camp wide revolt, or at least cause enough chaos to allow your group to escape the camp.
The group started making guns, ammo and also succeeded to steal some of the Nazi handguns, and even a few MP40s. Later the group managed to smuggle some TNT and heavier weapons into the camp with the help of Polish partisans, and hide them mostly in abandoned train wagons spread around the camp.
Each team member hid weapons separately from the rest of the group so that if one of them was captured and cracked, the Nazi's would not be able to find them all.
Still, it seemed too soon to attempt to start the revolt against the Nazis with a goal to take over the camp.
In the meantime, the group learnt that a high-ranking Nazi official was to make a visit to Auschwitz to supervise the construction of a new, larger crematorium as a higher extermination rate was needed due to the Soviet advances into Eastern Europe.
The group decided to assassinate the officer.
You were supposed to jump in front of the vehicle the official was travelling around the camp in to cause it to stop, which would make the officer an easy target for another member of the group who was a capable sniper and would shoot him from the roof of the crematorium.
But a fellow prisoner overheard a secret conversation detailing the plan and in order to improve his own living conditions at the camp, alerted the Nazi's.
All the group were quickly rounded up by the Nazi's and taken to the interrogation block; Block 11 where you were all tortured. However it seemed that none of the group broke and so the Nazi's decided to execute you all publically as an example...
