02-09-2025, 12:48 AM
52667170706D140 wrote: If I understood everything well the 1st launch will contain MM1 HD only. And the original MM1 and its builder will never be on the web. This may sound like disappointment but is absolutely NOT what I am trying to say. Since a MM HD builder is on the shortlist for later launches, it wouldn’t have common sense to keep both MM1 (including builder) and MM1 HD (including builder). And the choice for HD is obvious..
Correct, the original Midnight Mansion has been unsupported for years, and should be considered replaced by Midnight Mansion HD.
52667170706D140 wrote:Half of the game” is already “ported and running. :-? I see a half Jack Malone in a half room …So I am interested in how it looks like in reality. But that is not my 1st question..
Haha. More like certain features are missing. Like right now it has no in-game map, no stats area, no save, no Game Over, no title screen, no Map screen. Instead you just click a button to load a mansion from a Zip, and it plays that way.
Formerly lots of features were missing, like when Jack runs into enemies or items nothing happened. Or conveyor belts and disappearing floors didn't move. Initially, none of the enemies moved. :-) But gradually I've been adding all of these. So now much of the game is playable.
Maybe I can post a video to the Facebook page at some point to show its current state.
52667170706D140 wrote: Q1:
The transitional period between now and the 1st launch of Midnight Mansion on the web feels like an opportunity to do useful things. Around the release of MM1 HD, my friend brell did convert nearly all custom mansions. But you may have noticed on top of the home page that recently there were some updates of MM1 custom mansions. And much more are planned. But the HD-version of these CM’s don't get their updates.
So, what is the best strategy for us to get the custom mansions in their best HD-shape for the web-version? Waiting with updates till the HD-builder is there or going on with the updates for MM1 that later may be converted in group or … ?
We must keep in mind that all those custom mansions needs a thorough check of the HD-version because of the glowing keys and coins ...
My recommendation is to convert any recent mansions you wish to preserve to HD format. And if those mansions have had updates, convert the updated version to HD.
Once the web version of the game has a level builder, all future updates can just be done using that. So there won't be multiple versions of the game... just one web version.