Beta 2: General Discussion

[joeb]

Vern,

Any timeline on MM3 and final release? Having all these great new features available for design has me in building overload.

Just curious...

joeb

[Wingy]

Well, seeing after this Vern plans to release MM1 (or 2, or both?) for iPhone and Windows. Then, we shall see. So I would take a random guess... 2012-ish? :

[joeb]

Hmmm, didn't realize they were all tied together....
Thanks for the info.

joeb

[VernJensen]

Joe --

If by

MM3

you mean

Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills

-- BETA 3 -- it should be released today or tomorrow. And the final version sometime this summer. Maybe June or July, but no promises. Things notoriously take longer than expected.

If you really are referring to

Midnight Mansion 3

-- lol, I have no idea. Anthony is right -- I will FIRST be porting Midnight Mansion 1 and 2 over to the iPhone and possibly Windows (and at the same time updating it to compile as a Universal Intel-native build for OS X), before even starting to think about MM 3. MM 3 is just a dream at this point -- a very big, awesome dream. :-)

[Semi-Native]

Hooray!!! Itching for Beta3. But I am going on vacation next week. I might try playing on my laptop, but my first priority will be snorkeling!

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[sherryl199]

Hi Vern - given all the information you must have from all of the beta testers, which mansions would you like to see tested further?

[joeb]

Vern,

Being in sort of the same business (programming for a living) I can definitely relate to things taking longer especially when running into the 80/20 rule. MM2 will keep us all busy for quite a while. Matt has played through just about all of the mansions on Easy and a few on Normal. As I said I've been beating up on the editor and have about 6 mansions on the drawing board and some rooms already done. Summer is a very cool time (unless you're out here in the desert) to release software. BTW I was talking about BETA 3.

Joe B

you doing an iPad mod?

jb

[VernJensen]

iPad mod -- not sure. But probably; I'm guessing it'll be easy once the iPod touch version is done. ONly thing is MM's resolution is 640x480 -- which is low for the iPad. For MM3, I want to redo all graphics in a higher res.

[Toybox]

Incidentally, shouldn't it be

Testers' board

?



(Hey, there is no Pedant smiley!)

[brell]

172C3A212C3B430 wrote: Incidentally, shouldn't it be

Testers' board

?



(Hey, there is no Pedant smiley!)

Very smart, Toybox