Undying Italia

Portal's Guide

Greetings to you, visitor!

Do you wonder of what all this portal is about?
Well, there is a basement of all the ideas you can see here, and this basement is Clive Barker's Undying ^tm.
Have you heard of this game? I'm pretty sure you had, but just for case: Undying is a great game in horror genre combining elements of classical in-house horror and Lovecraftian mythology, providing many layers of reality and telling the great story. Name of Clive Barker in its title means that Mr. Barker had given many of his ideas and precious time to this game. He was the one responsible for characters and moreover for the whole athmosphere of the game. If you have read his books or watched his movies, you probably think now that the game is that good too, and my answer is yes, it is.

Unfortunatelly, Undying was not a kind of a bestseller, partly because of bad marketing politics, partly because of its mood and targeting: this game certainly can't be called the game for everyone.
Though, once got involved, many of us included the world of Undying, or, for me, ideas and sights of Undying's world, into our lives. If you haven't played the game yet, you certainly should do it. Or browse this portal to get an idea of what it's all about.

So, that was the basement, but not the contents. We want to devote this portal not only to the single masterpiece of game development, but to a widier world. If you know that there are unexplainable things in our world, that mystics and supernatural stuff possibly exists and that our reality is not the only place in the Universe, then I hope you'll be interested with this portal.
Our main goal is to let you do what you'd like to and to let you communicate with other people who believe that the truth is out there, too.
Most of the materials here should be considered as some kind of hobby or entertainment, though others can express our and your true sights.

We will highly appreciate any interest and help from your side, if you have anything interesting and want others to know about it, contact us and we will publish your information with our pleasure! Look here for details.


Finally, I feel I should notice a couple of technical details.
Undying Italia originally was a great idea of great man and my dear friend known as Doppiapunta. Initially it was intented to be Italian community of the Clive Barker's Undying, but later it has grown into something more, a kind of world-wide portal about Undying's world and about mystics in our lives.
Currently we support three languages: English, Italian and Russian. The most of portal contents is available in all three languages, so people from different parts of the world can feel theirselves in the most comfortable way. We can also provide support for other languages if we'll find Undying adepts to support them, you can contact us if you want to participate.
Refer to How to Set part of this guide to learn more about portal browsing.

Well, thanks for reading this Introduction, your patience is highly appreciated! You could either keep reading to get more information or just start browsing the portal now.

At the current moment there are two of us holding the portal tidely:

Doppiapunta (Diego)

General Information

Rules and Restrictions

Let me guide you to main sections of the portal again:

• Forum
  here you can communicate with other fans of Undying and to discuss any topics you are interested in
• Materials
  a collection of articles and different information, split into separate categories
• Downloads
  all the files available for downloading, including mods for Undying, graphic assets, tools and patches, etc.
• Image Gallery
  here you can find screenshots, fanart, concepts, etc

There are also three smaller sections:

• News
  all the important information and announcements
• Top Sites
  links to other great resources
• Quotes
  your and our favorite quotes taken from different places

At this moment you can also find Undying Related section right after the Portal Menu. It contains three links:

• Mods
  list of mods to Undying, all the mods are listed with names of their authors and links to appropriate download entries
• Game Downloads
  here I collected sets of the most important downloads for Undying, including additional game info (journal of Jeremiah, for example), game editing tools and tutorials
• Texture Updater
  this section is devoted to Texture Updater - a tool for improving graphics quality of Undying by using detail textures

Well, I suppose you should start in Undying Related -> Game Downloads, then go to Image Gallery, then refer to Undying Related -> Mods to download and play additional levels, and then go and read Materials. Finally, don't forget to download Undying Graphic Assets.

During registration process you will have to fill your user settings. If you have already registered, you can go to your Profile Settings to change them.

The most important ones include

• Language
  for now we support English, Italian and Russian
• Languages to hide at forum
  forums in selected languages will be hidden by default until you click on icon with country flag to show them again. This only applies to forum's Index page.

Click this link to write us

Here you can and should send any critics, offerings, ideas, materials, files, etc.

Moreover, active and reliable users could be granted to access Materials, News, Image Gallery and Downloads sections to add contents manually. We will pick ones we prefer, but please understand us and do not blame if we won't pick you - it has no relation to you as a person, but only depends on portal's needs. Thanks.

I think that now you have an idea of what it is and what it is meant for. Hope you'll be enjoyed!