Just to give you a heads up, since the beta is over, I believe we are going to delete the testing category. Thanks for everyone who participated in beta testing, you guys were awesome! I think we owe a big hand to Vern and his designing team for helping create such an awesome game. <br />
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Thanks again!<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0000;">@Vern/Admins</span>: We are deleting this category, right? I'm just making an assumption.

We seem to have no custom mansions for MM2, yet. Since the game *just* got released, we won't expect any mansions from designers any time soon quite yet. If you have a great idea or inspiration, build your mansion, advertise it on the MM2 Talk board and ask for beta testers. After that, e-mail it to them, get their feedback, fix it up, then e-mail it to an admin and there you have it, your own mansion up here for everyone to enjoy!<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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P.S. There are a couple custom mansions that come with the game already in the custom mansion folder, if you didn't already realize. You can start with those!<br />
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This topic is temporary until we have a couple Mansions uploaded.

Here, in this board, (not this topic) you will advertise your new mansions for MM2. The basic way to tell the world about your new creation that you will soon release, (or the usual way,) is to post your name of your mansion, perhaps a story, size of the mansion, difficulty and a screenshot teaser.<br />
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Also here in this board you can post any other custom mansion you feel like talking about.<br />
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Thanks!

If you've created a mansion, or about to, and/or it needs to be updated from someone finding a bug in the mansion, or you added a bunch of rooms, you need to do one thing before sending the update to the admins. From the time you start a mansion, it will have the name of the mansion in the <blockquote>Mansion Info...</blockquote> tab in the menu in the editor along with the version number there. The first version added will be 1.0, and the first update will be 1.1, and so on.<br />
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Thanks!

I was still playing the demo, enjoying a stroll through Mt. Peril, when I encountered a message reading something like: <blockquote>You have discovered 25% of this mansion. Please buy or quit now!</blockquote> So... I hit the <blockquote>Buy</blockquote> button, but by the time I finished buying, the game had quit and I lost my progress in Mt. Peril. *I'm* not terribly bothered by re-playing one quarter of a brand-new eagerly-awaited mansion, but I think new players might expect this process to be a little more comfortable!

<strong>Note: If you're wondering how to begin to build a mansion and have no idea, please read the included Level Builder Docs in included in the Midnight Mansion 2's folder.</strong> <br />
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If you want one of your mansions to get on the List of Completed Mansions it does NOT to be perfect. But we need the assurance of the designer that it has been <span style="color: #009900;">beta-tested</span> thoroughly. In a matter of fact, that is our <span style="color: #009900;">only demand</span>.<br />
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It is certainly not our purpose to disrupt anyone's creativity. So we will not declare what is a must or what is inacceptable. But having a look at possible jack-stucks, heightdifference at horizontal roomlinks, unsupposed shortcuts etc. are wortwhile.<br />
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When your mansion is in your opinion ready for release you do the following steps.<br />
1° In the Mansion Lever Builder go to Special and Remove Preview PICTs.<br />
2° Go to Finder and File. Click on Create Archive ... to become a neat zip-file.<br />
3° Send that zip-file and an accompanying text (with size, difficulty-degree, story, etc.) by email to one or more administrators. Not the Global Moderator or the YaBB Administrator! The emailaddresses of the <blockquote>normal</blockquote> administrators you will easily find in the memberslist.<br />
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The first administrator who finds the time, will launch your mansion.<br />
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It is our advice that you also start a new topic about your oncoming mansion at Talk, even during the building process. So you will be able to tell what you are planning, show a screenshot as appetizer, ask advice in case of problems, announce that your finished mansion was send to the administrators ...<br />
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Lately it seems that most mansion builders have been sending their new mansions to the admins, asking them to do the beta testing.  While we love to do that it is impossible for us to test all mansions.  So when you have a mansion ready for beta testing please advertise it on boards (e.g. the Talk forum) and ask for volunteering beta testers instead of sending them to us.  When you and your beta testers think the mansion is ready for the final list you can sent it to us and we will put it on the final list.<br />
While it is propably impossible to find all Jack stucks (JS) and cheap deaths (cd) in the testing period it is very important that all possible JS and cd that are found are fixed before a mansion is put  on the final list. Take MM&amp;M back in the original game, which is still being updated because players are still finding such things.  Always bear in mind that:<br />
1. The majority of players does not want JS and cd and think it is unfair. The same applies to most players regarding forced deaths like having to kill a monster without a shield.  On the other hand it can be a challenge to find a shield to get past a monster.<br />
2. Never ever assume that the player will play your mansion in the way you intended.  If there is a strange/stupid/whatever play that a player can do be sure that someone eventually will make that play. Remember that the player cannot know beforehand that the play will lead to JS or cd.<br />
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Builders are advised to use the building instructions that came with the game. You can find discussion about building tips and tricks here and here.

XS 1 to 20 rooms<br />
S 21 to 60 rooms<br />
M 61 to 100 rooms<br />
L 101 to 140 rooms<br />
XL 141 to 180 rooms<br />
2XL 181 to 250 rooms<br />
3XL 251 to 350 rooms<br />
4XL 351 to 450 rooms<br />
5XL 451 to 550 rooms<br />
etc.

Jack Malone is back, in his biggest adventure yet! Join Jack in his quest for treasure as he explores underground caverns, mad scientist laboratories, spooky graveyards, old abandoned castles, and more!<br />
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<a href="http://www.actionsoft.com/games/midnightmansion2/">http://www.actionsoft.com/games/midnightmansion2/</a><br />
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Outwit new enemies and solve new puzzles as you explore over 880 rooms in the built-in mansions. And when you're done, try out the two bonus mansions for even more fun! And as always, a level builder is included so you can create your mansions, or play mansions others have made.<br />
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Requirements:<br />
- Any PowerPC or Intel Macintosh (Rosetta required for Intel Macs)<br />
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher<br />
- 30 MB of free RAM<br />
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A Universal Binary version is under development, and will be a free upgrade for existing owners once it is released. <br />
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Midnight Mansion is free to try, and costs $25 to purchase.

I'm going to be putting together a promo video for Midnight Mansion 2 to put on YouTube, and I'm wondering if anyone has movies they can send me -- movies that were created with the very latest version, Final Candidate 1.<br />
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In general, I'm looking for movies from players who are somewhat familiar with the mansion, so they look like they are good at what they're doing. If you think this might be you, please upload or email me your movie files! Thanks!

*Sigh* I made it (somehow) to room 17500.<br />
Now what?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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