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- brell
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All three are re-retired administrators of previous Midnight Mansion forums.

Hi all,

Sorry I haven't posted much about progress on the game!

My wife and I recently moved to Texas, so we've been busy for a few months with the move. But I've been working on the game again, and continue making good progress!

I'd like to share some updates here to show what I've been up to.

Over the years I purchased all of Vern's Midnight Mansion games available for the Mac and the PC.

Numerous times I had to ask for a new code, everything would be fine unless a hard drive crashed, changed computer, etc.

I have tried for the last couple of years to get MM1 HD going again on my PC as I don't use my Mac very much anymore.

Vern used to help, however the last few times I asked for help I got no response. Going through the update code thing, or lost code thing has been zero help.

I just wrote a detailed email and sent it to the support email address including attachments of the confirmation emails I received when I purchased all of the games...it bounced right back to me...

Is this whole thing dead? Am I now stuck with not being able to play this game I purchased? 

Thanks..

I can’t remember that I have ever been in The Birdcage, so I started exploring it. It’s a typical aquaMat mansion with a way of building that gives a lot of possibilities to hide all kinds of stuff and a lot of fun to search. But once in a while he colours outside the lines.<br />
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The picture shows the 3rd room of the mansion. No shield or extra life yet.<br />
The eye ball and the scorpion were previously on the closed trap door. Jack did pull the lever and only then knew what (fast) happened. The eye ball is easy to avoid, but the scorpion did end in the gap on top of the vine that is Jack’s only way of progress. Several tests showed me that the scorpion not always but nearly always arrives in the gap. And if it does not always very fast. Both things have to do with the position and moving direction of the scorpion. And knowing how things work doesn’t help at all. The trap door opens and you have to accept if it will be cheap death or not. Russian roulette in my opinion.<br />
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That thing in the lava just left of where Jack is now, is a very fast left-right moving platform. It moves without reaching the solid bricks at both sides. The latter makes it easy to jump on the moving platform. But going further to the left is tough. The platform moves so fast that I can’t know when to pull the lever. Like in the other room. The difference is that I could teach myself how to handle this. So no Russian roulette, but a high risk of falling in the lava. Either in the widest pool or in the left one.<br />

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Version 1.1 fixes some situations with cheap deaths.<br />
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Room 16801<br />
The ladders leaded to several hidden death traps.<br />
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There is an odd issue that could lead to a surprising death. Jack was able to jump over the top of the pole. See the skeleton as proof!<br />
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T did try to contact <span style="color: #0000ff;">arevn</span> but couldn't. Hopefully she's okay with this update.<br />
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Interested in the updates? Then use the shortcut on top of the homepage.<br />

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Now that I am able to convert MM1 custom mansions to HD I am more carefully 'studying' the glowing effect of coins, keys, lantern, neon platforms ... and lava. Lava seems to show a rectangle glow, 2 tiles high right above the lava.<br />
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I add two versions of the starting room from The Bat House. I prefer the b-version where the glow stays between the bricks. But I am interested in the opinion of others.

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This update fixes the other weird issue (game bug?) where Jack, standing on a moving platform, could fall through that platform. No jumping or high speed platform involved!<br />
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Fastest downloading is with the link on top of the home page.

This update fixes the weird situation where Jack could climb a vine and ‘disappear’ out of the mansion. (This phenomenon was already known in a horizontal way where Jack could walk out of Falcon Manor.)<br />
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The fastest way to get this update is the link on top of the homepage.

If you haven't seen it yet, read my big announcement here!<br />
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<a href="https://www.actionsoft.com/announcement/">https://www.actionsoft.com/announcement/</a><br />
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Short version: I'm porting Midnight Mansion to the web, so I can support it better moving forward. Lots of big plans, including eventually a new Level Builder (that I'll be rewriting from scratch) and a port of Midnight Mansion 2, and then brand-new features.<br />
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Feel free to ask questions / post comment here.<br />
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I'm sorry I've been so lacking in support and communication all these years. I hope the announcement helps explain some of that.

A few days ago I started a long journey to the Jasperlone Mountains. There seemed to be three good paths to them although one tougher than an other. I chose the road that was announced as less difficult. On previous Thursday I started my pilgrimage (pic 1) and now I am at the entrance od the Jasperlone Mountains where I was never before. I am looking forward to it. And am as happy as can be!

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