Mystery of Tyskie Islands

**Mystery of Tyskie Islands** stylized as **Wojti's Mystery Of Tyskie Islands** - a Total Conversion mod for DOOM 2 first released in 2017, with a v.2. ultimate version being released three years later in 2020.

Taking place during the early 20th century on the fictional Pacific island country of The Empire-Kingdom of Czlopak Wojdak and Tyskie Islands, it puts the player in a setting which is a unique combination of both tropical and steampunk settings, as he fight his way through both steam-filled machinery and dense jungles to kill Pica, the country's dictator.

As of mid-2020, a sequel, **Mystery of Tyskie Islands 2** is in development by WojtTheDoomer, as announced on the mod's official Facebook page.

## Official Description

*"The Year is 1912. You take control of Frank Masseur, an Austro-Hungarian soldier. You are send on a diplomatic mission on a ship, it would be just a stroll, but alas, something went horribly wrong - during a sea storm your ship gets destroyed, and you, the sole survivor, land on the shores of a country only known as the Island Empire. You saved your Gasser revolver, and as you exit the seaside cave you woke up in, a strange voice enters your mind.*

*"Hello, can you hear me?"*

*The voice, claiming to be a "psychic individual" explains everything - the usually peaceful country got taken over by a dictator known as Pica, and his militia known as Island Empire Revolta. Their goal is simple - to enforce an eugenics campaign upon the people, and bend the nation to his will. His motto is "suvival of the fittest", and he won't stop at nothing, even building a giant mass-euthanasia plant known as CREC-001. You, and the voice decide that it's time to destroy the mad dictator, and his regime..."*

## Story

Separate article about the Islands' backstory: Island Empire

### Masseur's Arrival

It's 2th October 1912, Frank Masseur washes upon on the shores of The Empire-Kingdom of Czlopak Wojdak and Tyskie Islands, after the ship he was aboard of was struck by a storm, which was so powerful that it somehow hurled the ship into Oceania. While the ship got destroyed, Masseur however managed to survive and after being unconcious for a while, he finally managed to snap back into reality, and armed with his Revolver started to look for aid.

Once ashore, he was contacted by someone, who introducted himself as Alexander Dell, who begun to tell Masseur about how the dictator of the country, Pica, is obsessed with the subject of eugenics and turning the Island Empire into a global military power. Alexander orders him to destroy the Digging Rig, but before that, he had to get through a beach town and one of the deeper jungles, until he finally reached the Digging Rig and faced The Hammer.

After killing The Hammer, he was silently knocked out and woke up at night in a prison on another island where he found the Revolta Swamp Headquarters, aided by Alexander. There, he faced Oswald Grisworth, a former Confederate soldier.

### Storming the Revolta

After that, Masseur was ordered to attack the Island Empire's capital, the city of Danda, and later took on the two main goals of his journey - first, he destroyed the .

### Pica's Death

Pica was not prepared for Frank Masseur's arrival at the abandoned Chocolate Factory, and was killed, falling motionless into an open water pipe that led to his burial at the sea.

In the same year a new Kaizok was elected, and the nation entered a new age of peace and love, and Masseur went his own way.

## Development

### Story concept and background

In early 2017, the author and his friends created a joke conworld wiki where they created the Island Empire and it's lore, with characters such as Pica and the Revolta debuting on it's pages. The Empire's lore was also very political in nature at that wiki, poking fun of some behavior of Polish politicians at the time or pro-eugenics behavior.

It also featured some inflation fetish material, with the Island Empire's population being mostly obese, which was mantained in the mod, but toned down to fit the more serious, less parodistic mood later on. Still most of the original parody lore, slightly reworked, was mantained, and is used as the mod's background.

### Creation of the mod

The mod's development began around April or May 2017 as a joke based on polish Tyskie beer commercials featuring Mazur and Mecenas, two Austro-Hungarian soldiers which are being chased by their Oberleutnant named Von Stein.
Soon enough, the author decided to make the previously created Island Empire the mod's setting. At the time, it was only known as "Tyskie Doom".

The 2017 was a rough year, but finally Mystery Of Tyskie Islands was released to the public on ZDoom Forums. It was however slightly rushed, leading to the cancellation of almost half of the planned levels.

Later on, a ZDoom forums user named Korell made major bug fixes to the mod.

## Links

* Download fixed version on ModDB
* ZDoom Forums Thread