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Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET - aquaMat - 10-25-2009
To keep you updated:
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 processthe 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-terrestrionalat all.... :-[ ahem..
:'(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
strangeplanet.
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,
strangelooking rooms in the first half.
I tend to go with solution number 2.
Any opinions ??
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - leo - 10-25-2009
Option 2 sounds just fine to me.
If you already put a lot of work in, you should definitely try and save everything you did.
Can't wait to play your new mansion!
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - SandyBean - 10-25-2009
My Jack Wants So Bad To Try The Ejection Seat, please don't remove it !!!!! (remember, he is a tad suicidal
)thanks,
SandyBean
(Jack made me do it!)
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - Semi-Native - 10-26-2009
Yeah, please keep it all in. Can't wait!
[smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - aquaMat - 10-27-2009
Wow, thanks for the feedback !!
That's decided, then !
I'll leave it in......
....but I hope it won't backfire on me that we have talked about this
ejection seatscene now repeatedly....I can see how expectations are building up unproportionately..... :o
Please don't expect too much.....and then be disappointed.
It's just a lil' gimmick, really.
Thanks for the positive, encouraging remarks.
I'm off....building. 8-)
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - SandyBean - 10-28-2009
Hi aquaMat !
Be disappointed........ya right ! By one of your mansions??? Me and my Jack don't think so !
Looking forward to it, hope it's soon, as we are going through MM withdrawal.
thanks, and take care,
SandyBean [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - josephine - 10-28-2009
Hey aquamat, check your PM's
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - Wingy - 10-31-2009
Uh oh... another one of AquaMat's crazy (but awesome) masterpieces.
I haven't finished that last one he made yet, still stuck somewhere, I think... 
Your mansion building style still befuddles me though. You have a very unique style.
A very cool style, might I add.
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - aquaMat - 11-03-2009
Wingy, my man!
That wasn't what I intended..... that a mansion of mine is so a) hard or b) boring that a master practitioner like yourself is forced to give up on it.
I'm truly worried.
But I know what you mean. For me, this often happens with Freddie's designs. I completely admire them and I do like them.... but usually somewhere in the second third of one of his designs I can't seem to get further and eventually give up.
I know I shouldn't though, so I retry half a year later - maybe get a little further maybe not. But still can't finish before I lose patience.
However, I had always hoped this phenomenon is not the case with my designs....and - luckily - until now I haven't heard too many complains.
Maybe one nice winter day you'll find the time to re-try
The Complex, I assure you it's perfectly manageable. (I even consider it to be less hard than many earlier ones.....).
For you, and all the others - here's a teaser preview of one room only (from BFAP):
Re: Nearing completion: BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLAN - brell - 11-03-2009
aquaMat wrote: Wingy, my man!In the end this is really a matter of taste. I myself like Freddy's mansions very much. There is something about his building style that stimulates me. It has very little to do with how easy/hard they are.
That wasn't what I intended..... that a mansion of mine is so a) hard or b) boring that a master practitioner like yourself is forced to give up on it.
I'm truly worried.
But I know what you mean. For me, this often happens with Freddie's designs. I completely admire them and I do like them.... but usually somewhere in the second third of one of his designs I can't seem to get further and eventually give up.
I know I shouldn't though, so I retry half a year later - maybe get a little further maybe not. But still can't finish before I lose patience.
However, I had always hoped this phenomenon is not the case with my designs....and - luckily - until now I haven't heard too many complains.
In my opinion, therefore, we should all be reluctant to critizise the bulders' building style. There will always be someone who likes or dislikes a special building style and that is quite normal. If I, for example, decide to make another mansion, I will not be deferred from my building style for 2 reasons:
1. I like it myself
2. I know that at least some of you like it.