<![CDATA[Midnight Mansion Forums - MM1 Talk (Mac only)]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:17:56 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Beta testers wanted!]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2156 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 03:32:08 -0400 josephine]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2156 <![CDATA[Announcement: Chamber of Secrets]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2131 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:17:31 -0500 josephine]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2131


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.jpg   cos2.jpg (Size: 19.53 KB / Downloads: 1) ]]> <![CDATA[Working on a new mansion...]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2110 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:09:30 -0500 Midnight_Mouse]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2110 Midnight Adventure.  More news to come!

Midnight Mouse  Wink]]> Midnight Adventure.  More news to come!

Midnight Mouse  Wink]]> <![CDATA[Still alive...]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1671 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:54:11 -0400 leo]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1671
You are probably wondering whatever happened to
Escape from Paris
. Well... I have been away from the whole custom-mansions-business for some time and didn't really feel like working on my MM-project. I've been kind of newly invigorated lately and continued to work on
Escape from Paris
. There are two more (large) sections that I will have to construct, then some fine-tuning and then the whole thing can go into beta-testing. I cannot and will not make any promises as to when the whole thing is finished. I just want you to know that I am working on it and I also intend to finish it.

Here's a screen-shot to whet your appetite (as you can see, the whole thing is getting quite out of hand, size-wise...):

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You are probably wondering whatever happened to
Escape from Paris
. Well... I have been away from the whole custom-mansions-business for some time and didn't really feel like working on my MM-project. I've been kind of newly invigorated lately and continued to work on
Escape from Paris
. There are two more (large) sections that I will have to construct, then some fine-tuning and then the whole thing can go into beta-testing. I cannot and will not make any promises as to when the whole thing is finished. I just want you to know that I am working on it and I also intend to finish it.

Here's a screen-shot to whet your appetite (as you can see, the whole thing is getting quite out of hand, size-wise...):

.jpg   EfP.jpg (Size: 19.53 KB / Downloads: 1) ]]> <![CDATA[The ladder problem in many MM1 custom mansions]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1643 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:01:10 -0500 brell]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1643 broken ladders.]]> broken ladders.]]> <![CDATA[Dracula's Castle]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1398 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:26:31 -0400 jbrown1988]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1398
So I'm pretty excited because I started a custom mansion today. Its going to be easy, which I feel kinda horrible about. Sad But I like doing the relaxing ones and I hope others do too.

Anyway, the general storyline is that Jack ends up in Dracula's castle and he's transported back to the time of Dracula once he walks through the main door of the castle. Dracula has set up a kind of maze for Jack to go through to get to the treasure.

I'm kinda OCD, so I'm pretty much obsessing about making things perfect. Its going to be 100 rooms, 10 floors with 10 rooms each.

I've only finished the first floor, but I hope that this sounds interesting to some. :Smile\

Happy treasure hunting everyone!!]]>
So I'm pretty excited because I started a custom mansion today. Its going to be easy, which I feel kinda horrible about. Sad But I like doing the relaxing ones and I hope others do too.

Anyway, the general storyline is that Jack ends up in Dracula's castle and he's transported back to the time of Dracula once he walks through the main door of the castle. Dracula has set up a kind of maze for Jack to go through to get to the treasure.

I'm kinda OCD, so I'm pretty much obsessing about making things perfect. Its going to be 100 rooms, 10 floors with 10 rooms each.

I've only finished the first floor, but I hope that this sounds interesting to some. :Smile\

Happy treasure hunting everyone!!]]> <![CDATA[Escape from Paris]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1281 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:17:06 -0500 leo]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1281
Just wanted to let you know that I resumed work on
Escape from Paris
, the third and last part of the Jacques Moilone-Trilogy. It is going to be epic, like the two first installments, so it wont be done any time soon. I am HOPING for a release in September/October. That sounds like an awfully long time, but I can only put together the mansion bit by bit (what with studying always getting in the way) and don't forget that it has to be beta-tested as well.

To give you some proof that I am really working, here's a screenshot:


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Just wanted to let you know that I resumed work on
Escape from Paris
, the third and last part of the Jacques Moilone-Trilogy. It is going to be epic, like the two first installments, so it wont be done any time soon. I am HOPING for a release in September/October. That sounds like an awfully long time, but I can only put together the mansion bit by bit (what with studying always getting in the way) and don't forget that it has to be beta-tested as well.

To give you some proof that I am really working, here's a screenshot:


.jpg   Escape_from_Paris.jpg (Size: 19.53 KB / Downloads: 1) ]]> <![CDATA[Dune Harrow]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1258 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:36:36 -0500 JonahMusto]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1258 Dune Harrow. It is about going over the dune called
Dune Harrow
to the house. Dune has some lavas in it.]]> Dune Harrow. It is about going over the dune called
Dune Harrow
to the house. Dune has some lavas in it.]]> <![CDATA[The City of Ember]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1206 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:59:19 -0500 JonahMusto]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1206 <![CDATA[Nearing completion:  BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1177 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:46:17 -0400 aquaMat]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1177
My latest one, BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, is now - slowly - nearing completion. (Of the basic building process, that is.)

It's gotten quite big..... at the moment about 130 rooms, or so.

Also - as I had mentioned elsewhere on these pages, due to the
improvisational design process
the story has considerably moved away from the initial
Jack is in space / emergency-lands on strange planet
- scenario, even if the beginning with the ejection seat still stands.
Somehow the layout of many later rooms didn't really turn out very
extra-terrestrional
at all....   :-[   ahem.. Undecided     :'(

So I thought I could do either of 2 things:
1.  Trash the opening sequence and rename the whole mansion.....  or:
2.  Leave the opening sequence in, and treat the mansion name quite literarilly:   Jack IS the brother from ANOTHER planet, which doesn't have to mean he has to emergency-land on a
strange
planet.
It could very well be our own blue one....only he's not sure where exactly he is.  And we - as players - aren't that sure either, 'cause there are enough unusual,
strange
looking rooms in the first half.

I tend to go with solution number 2.

Any opinions ??]]>
My latest one, BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, is now - slowly - nearing completion. (Of the basic building process, that is.)

It's gotten quite big..... at the moment about 130 rooms, or so.

Also - as I had mentioned elsewhere on these pages, due to the
improvisational design process
the story has considerably moved away from the initial
Jack is in space / emergency-lands on strange planet
- scenario, even if the beginning with the ejection seat still stands.
Somehow the layout of many later rooms didn't really turn out very
extra-terrestrional
at all....   :-[   ahem.. Undecided     :'(

So I thought I could do either of 2 things:
1.  Trash the opening sequence and rename the whole mansion.....  or:
2.  Leave the opening sequence in, and treat the mansion name quite literarilly:   Jack IS the brother from ANOTHER planet, which doesn't have to mean he has to emergency-land on a
strange
planet.
It could very well be our own blue one....only he's not sure where exactly he is.  And we - as players - aren't that sure either, 'cause there are enough unusual,
strange
looking rooms in the first half.

I tend to go with solution number 2.

Any opinions ??]]> <![CDATA[Does anybody know what this means?]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1158 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:20:54 -0400 leo]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1158 Escape from Paris: the third and last part of the big 'Jacques Moilone'-Trilogy), I wanted to test the work I accomplished so far. I started MM, clicked
Start Game
, clicked
Open Mansion
, selected the mansion and then I got an error message:

Can't find a resource.

File name: Level.c
Line number: 118 (unknown)
Error code: -192 (resNotFound)

HELP! Sad


Good news regarding
Jacques' Revenge
: Missy and Sherry are beta-testing parts 1 and 2. They are doing a great job and are almost finished. So you can expect the Mansion soon! Again: You might want to (but don't absolutely have to) take a shot at Palais Pompomrouge before playing the new mansion just so you are familiar with the storyline.]]> Escape from Paris: the third and last part of the big 'Jacques Moilone'-Trilogy), I wanted to test the work I accomplished so far. I started MM, clicked
Start Game
, clicked
Open Mansion
, selected the mansion and then I got an error message:

Can't find a resource.

File name: Level.c
Line number: 118 (unknown)
Error code: -192 (resNotFound)

HELP! Sad


Good news regarding
Jacques' Revenge
: Missy and Sherry are beta-testing parts 1 and 2. They are doing a great job and are almost finished. So you can expect the Mansion soon! Again: You might want to (but don't absolutely have to) take a shot at Palais Pompomrouge before playing the new mansion just so you are familiar with the storyline.]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Beneath: My (4th?) mansion!]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1154 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:31:25 -0400 samskelton]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1154
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It is with some reluctance I step forward to write this but Freddy and I agree it has to be done.  I sincerely hope that no one will misinterpret this post.

First let me say that I wanted the Headline to be
The silence of the forum and discussions of the quality of custom mansions
.  It has happened before that the MMF has gone silent or almost so after Freddy or I have had to interfere with discussions that have led to members accusing each other of inappropirate behaviour against other members.

Next, I will quote Freddy in his post where he explains why he locked aquaMat's topic about the quality of beta testing in the custom mansion Veronica's ladders (which is a good mansion but might have had a more thorough testing):

1° none of our MMF-members is trying to harass mansion builders or beta-testers in any way;
2° none of the mansion builders and beta-testers can't handdle the reports of mistakes.

These two points are very important to all of us.  We MUST be able to discuss the quality of custom mansions WITHOUT being accused of
picking on
,
harassing
(or whatever) the beta testers or the CM builders.  Only that way are we able to keep up the quality of the custom mansions, which we all want to have at as high standard as possible.  When I said
which is a good mansion but might have had a more thorough testing
above I did not intend any pun at the tester or the builder.  I do not even know who tested the mansion (and usually I don't know which member(s) is/are testing each mansion).  I was just agreeing with aquaMat on his subject.  I do have the right to have an opinion on this matter and so does everyone else.  In fact I welcome (and expect) critics on my own building and testing abilities, which I regard as efforts to make me a better builder/tester.

I have sometimes seen members posting that MM
is just a game
and that's why we shouldn't be too concerned about the CM's regarding JS, HJS and cd's. I agree that it is
just a game
but that does not mean that we should accept flaws in the CM's. In fact I know that some members give up on playing some CM's, not because of the difficulty but because of too numerous flaws in the CM's. Again this is not said to discourage any builder or tester. On the contrary I want do encourage both builders and testers (including myself) to become even better in making and testing CM's to the benefit of us all.

While this debate Freddy locked (and another one not locked - yet) was going on I received a few PM's and e-mails from members that were truly concerned about our forum and how to stop this attitude that critisizing the CM's is the same as bullying the testers or builders.  I don't have a patent solution for that.  I can only repeat what Freddy said:

1° none of our MMF-members is trying to harass mansion builders or beta-testers in any way;
2° none of the mansion builders and beta-testers can't handdle the reports of mistakes.

... and ask members to reread the rules of posting by Vern.

I do sincerely hope that this will come to a stop now and that we can all participate in discussions about the quality of custom mansions without being accused of inappropriate behaviour.]]>
It is with some reluctance I step forward to write this but Freddy and I agree it has to be done.  I sincerely hope that no one will misinterpret this post.

First let me say that I wanted the Headline to be
The silence of the forum and discussions of the quality of custom mansions
.  It has happened before that the MMF has gone silent or almost so after Freddy or I have had to interfere with discussions that have led to members accusing each other of inappropirate behaviour against other members.

Next, I will quote Freddy in his post where he explains why he locked aquaMat's topic about the quality of beta testing in the custom mansion Veronica's ladders (which is a good mansion but might have had a more thorough testing):

1° none of our MMF-members is trying to harass mansion builders or beta-testers in any way;
2° none of the mansion builders and beta-testers can't handdle the reports of mistakes.

These two points are very important to all of us.  We MUST be able to discuss the quality of custom mansions WITHOUT being accused of
picking on
,
harassing
(or whatever) the beta testers or the CM builders.  Only that way are we able to keep up the quality of the custom mansions, which we all want to have at as high standard as possible.  When I said
which is a good mansion but might have had a more thorough testing
above I did not intend any pun at the tester or the builder.  I do not even know who tested the mansion (and usually I don't know which member(s) is/are testing each mansion).  I was just agreeing with aquaMat on his subject.  I do have the right to have an opinion on this matter and so does everyone else.  In fact I welcome (and expect) critics on my own building and testing abilities, which I regard as efforts to make me a better builder/tester.

I have sometimes seen members posting that MM
is just a game
and that's why we shouldn't be too concerned about the CM's regarding JS, HJS and cd's. I agree that it is
just a game
but that does not mean that we should accept flaws in the CM's. In fact I know that some members give up on playing some CM's, not because of the difficulty but because of too numerous flaws in the CM's. Again this is not said to discourage any builder or tester. On the contrary I want do encourage both builders and testers (including myself) to become even better in making and testing CM's to the benefit of us all.

While this debate Freddy locked (and another one not locked - yet) was going on I received a few PM's and e-mails from members that were truly concerned about our forum and how to stop this attitude that critisizing the CM's is the same as bullying the testers or builders.  I don't have a patent solution for that.  I can only repeat what Freddy said:

1° none of our MMF-members is trying to harass mansion builders or beta-testers in any way;
2° none of the mansion builders and beta-testers can't handdle the reports of mistakes.

... and ask members to reread the rules of posting by Vern.

I do sincerely hope that this will come to a stop now and that we can all participate in discussions about the quality of custom mansions without being accused of inappropriate behaviour.]]> <![CDATA[Two new mansions]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1131 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:58:53 -0400 Veronika]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1131 After playing MM for a year I've decided to create some mansions myself-  I have two mansions ready- Veronica's ladders and Jack in spider world. Since I'm still new at this they are not very big- cca 50 rooms. They are both easy to medium to play.

Now I'm looking for a beta testers ( of course Tongue )
So, anyone with some free time out there Wink ?

Veronika]]> After playing MM for a year I've decided to create some mansions myself-  I have two mansions ready- Veronica's ladders and Jack in spider world. Since I'm still new at this they are not very big- cca 50 rooms. They are both easy to medium to play.

Now I'm looking for a beta testers ( of course Tongue )
So, anyone with some free time out there Wink ?

Veronika]]> <![CDATA[Good To Hear Freddy is OK !!!]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1123 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:14:45 -0400 SandyBean]]> https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1123
I am very relieved and glad to hear he is ok and his back is not the problem.   Big Grin    
Darned Work, who invented that anyway!   Undecided

Maybe both Brell and Freddy need to take a Vacation to MM Land !!!   ;D

Take care guys, and thanks so much for being our forum admins.

SandyBean  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]]]>
I am very relieved and glad to hear he is ok and his back is not the problem.   Big Grin    
Darned Work, who invented that anyway!   Undecided

Maybe both Brell and Freddy need to take a Vacation to MM Land !!!   ;D

Take care guys, and thanks so much for being our forum admins.

SandyBean  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]]]>