626A6B7F6A050 wrote: [quote author=685E565216755A4F524D5E3B0 link=1334071748/1#1 date=1334074392]Thanks for the how-to, gonzo. I love that mansion, too.
Thanks! ... It's very sad, that since the realease of MM1 HD no one can build new mansions with
Lion
... I believe that most people go to
Lion
and waiting for ... nothing??? ---
I'm astonished, that a real living and working community fall asleep!
... or is this a false analysis ...
Hello everybody,
after a very long time I traveled to our (once so beloved) forums and found this discussion.
1. Concerning Gonzo's quote above:
When the HD version of the game was publicly beta-tested on these pages (by volunteers of our community) I couldn't take part, because back then I didn't yet have a modern Mac with Lion or Snow Leopard. I was still using a G5 Power Mac with Mac OS 10.4.11.
BUT ALSO I found out about that beta-testing only when it was already well under way (because I had been visiting the forums not as often as I used to).....and nobody had ever asked me to check my mansions for HD-compatibility, which I found a bit strange, considering how many custom-mansions I had designed.
I didn't even fully understand what the HD-version was about until much later (!!) and only when I finally bought a MacBook running Lion in December 2011 I discovered that there is no more Mansion Level Design Editor available for that system.
So yes, I feel very much that what was once a vibrant, active community is pretty much falling apart. Jesus, I used to log in to these pages at least once a day in the old times.... and even if my inactivity here is partly due to personal health issues (during the last year or so) there's also another reason for it, which I might desribe as the
loss of that communal feeling
or whatever.....
Add to that the fact that nobody's building new mansions anymore - and we're having a pretty sad situation. (BTW: I have at least 3 or 4 nearly or half-finished MM2 mansions which I can't finish at the moment, plus ca. 2 old-style MM1 mansions that are somewhere between half-finished and playable - but which won't make much sense to finish, I reckon).
I wish I had a fully working HD-version, so I could test a few of my old mansions (using that workaround)....
2. Discotheque Of Doom
Discotheque Of Doom is a rather 'old' mansion of mine - and the first one where I ever used custom-graphics (and also my own music). I'm pleased to hear - after all this time - that there seem to be a few people out there who still like it. I remember I was pretty proud of it when I finished it.
But you know what: I had no idea that it has been left out of the HD-ready list. Again - I have never been contacted about any of my mansions and their
HD-readyness
. Maybe I could have helped - either with information or (since December 2011) with some (re-design) work or anything.
I - personally - find it rather odd (maybe understandably so, after the hundreds of hours that we, as mansion designers, have put into this game) that a Windows-port of MM is higher on the agenda than a Lion-compatible Level Editor.
After all - for us as proud longtime Mac users, Windows always was the 'enemy'.....!
On the other hand - there (still) are far more Windows users out there than Mac users, and Vern surely deserves to sell his game to some of them.
I only hope he doesn't wait too long with creating the Lion-compatible Level Editor .... cause one day someone might log in here and will find that all the old designers have gone and the once glorious MM spirit will have evaporated, like dust in the wind.
:'( 8-)
