The Bat House

[brell]

The Bat House by Mikee is available for download. Check it out at the list of complete mansions.

[Wingy]

Ooo... great mansion... beat it with afew coins missing... Btw, I couldn't find the blue key for the door in the first section! Do I get it later and go back? :-?

[Wingy]

Oh yeah, also made a movie on my first time.

[brell]

Ahh ... the blue doors/keys puzzle

Didn't solve it myself while testing.

[aquaMat]

What...already another Mikee mansion ?!?!

Aaah...those young kids....

[samskelton]

YOUNG!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!???! [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=angry.gif] [smiley=angry.gif] [smiley=angry.gif].......................

[Wingy]

Freddy said in the old forums:

Being young is good because you never know what will become of you. It's more of a compliment, so don't be angry

Something along the lines of that... don't be  >!

8-)

BTW: How old are you, aquamat? Can I call you

the 'ol scallywag matt?

[joeb]

No Wingy I think I'm at the top of the AARP list. Got a half century+ in and look forward to completing the run to triple digits.

Joe B

[aquaMat]

Wingy wrote: Freddy said in the old forums:

Being young is good because you never know what will become of you. It's more of a compliment, so don't be angry

Yeah...right ! But what I basically meant was...

Oh those young kids...with all the time in the world at their disposal....

Something along those lines...!

Wingy wrote:
BTW: How old are you, aquamat? Can I call you

the 'ol scallywag matt?

Call me what you will, Wingman!!
(41...... but looking 10 yrs younger !! ;D ;D)

I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now

(Bob Dylan)

[aquaMat]

Back to our topic:

A while ago we we were talking about the

sins of the mansion builders

.

As far as

The Bat Hoiuse

is concerned I might add a point which is totally subjective:

In the last weeks we saw a whole string of these

rectangular mansions

which have basically all rooms looking alike, with 3 floors in each room, and the whole point (I don't even dare calling it a puzzle) is running back and forth from one corner to the opposite corner in every room, pulling levers and opening doors. Usually the lever for the door in - say - the lower right corner, is in the upper left corner etc. ...so you have to keep walking and walking back and forth....and that's basically all that is happening in those mansions.

It's just my (very) personal view....and it's probably

web-political uncorrect

to say so, but: I don't like that.
I think it's rather boring....sometimes even to a point where one of those mansions (I'm not naming names...and it's not the Bat House, even if that belongs to that category) looks strikingly similar to a previous one in the same vein.

And I know those mansions are probably meant for beginners..... but in the BAT HOUSE I was so much running on auto-pilot that when I came to the only spot that was a bit more challenging - the zapper beams in rooms 17103 / 17104 (which are much harder than the rest of the House) - I lost about 10 of my amassed lives .....!! :-?

So I just throw that on the table..... open for discussion:

While one mansion in that style every now and then is great..... I could imagine even beginners getting bored by a whole series of those !!

As I said..... just my personal view.


(BTW: I experienced a strange bug while playing Bat House: every time I opened the map, all rooms in the map appeared twice (next to each other), and sometimes whole floors appeared twice (on top of each other). Now what is that ???)