Dear friends,<br />
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I'll be on a short trip for 8 days, so I won't be present at the boards (and on the mailing list) during that time. I'll be back on Friday June 8.<br />
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Greetings,<br />
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aquaMat

With the design contest consuming a lot of folks time it seems that one of the issues that continues to pop up is the linear vs non-linear design of mansions. I think I have come up with a nifty idea which I used extensively in Ghosthunter (posted EXCLUSIVELY thru the contest). I am hoping to hear from others if they feel that GH fits into the non-linear mode of design. Especially from Vern, psychotronic and DaFalcon. If it does then I'm going to post a thread here which might help others to get out of the linear mode using a fairly simple idea. I don't want to speak about it now, not because I don't want anyone to use it, but because I'd rather wait and see if it achieves non-linearity.<br />
(HINT, HINT, enter the contest!!!!)<br />
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joeb

Hi!<br />
I am trying to play A Curious Observatory from the beginning. Never quite finished it when I played it before.<br />
My questions are<br />
#1 where do I get the red key for the room 30901<br />
#2 where is a third green key in this top part of the mansion? If Jack uses the 2 he has in room 29903 he can't pass a green door in room 30704<br />
Or is Jack supposed to come back later?<br />

House of Coine 1.0 <br />
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Designer: ryos<br />
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Size folder: 888 KB<br />
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Size mansion: 884 KB<br />
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Size zip-file: 48 KB <br />
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Checksum sha zipfile: 22acf546dd61b832db2a779b1436b337b4215880<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0000;">Info by ryos:</span><br />
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Description: See Readme file <br />
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Difficulty: Normal to hard

Attached Files

  House_of_Coine.zip (Size: 19.53 KB / Downloads: 2)

Hi gang,<br />
Just enjoyed playing <blockquote>Church</blockquote> and finally got to the end, room 17882.<br />
Uhm, what is Jack suposed to do to end the mansion? the up arrow provides nothhing, and he can't jump on the translucent steps when they appear.<br />
Oh, one suggestion, another <blockquote>save</blockquote> or two in the game would have been oh so helpful, though I get the hidden message: <blockquote>there's no saves in Hell!</blockquote>  <br />
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Thanks for the help in advance!<br />
Best regards,<br />
DLC<br />

<blockquote><strong>Toybox wrote:</strong> : By the way, did anybody actually manage to pass through the UM without a hint? <br />
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Not me. Freddy had to help me through.<br />
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I would like to make sure that the new board templates work on as many forum members' systems as possible. Please choose ONE Mac browser and if you also view on Windows.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Joe B

I can't help feeling it's the <blockquote>fault</blockquote> of the contest in general and the mailing list in particular that the boards are so silent at the moment.<br />
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For a while it seemed as if all <blockquote>talking activity</blockquote> was relocated to the mailing list.... but what's funny: now the mailing list is pretty silent too !!<br />
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Is everybody so entangled in building their contest mansions or playing around with the new XP features ? : :o <br />
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Comments go here...<br />
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Joe B

Over the next week or so I'm going to be putting up different looks for the board.<br />
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There are NO CUTESY graphics YET!!!!<br />
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All I want is feedback on the color schemes.<br />
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Post to the COLORS topic here.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Joe B