Dear members:

To wet your appetite, I'd like to announce that the beta-testing of my Small Palace Of Gore is almost finished. :D :) :D

Freddy did a wonderful, thorough job (thanks again) and we're looking forward to release it very soon.
(Mansion Details follow later).

The bigger Palace Of Gore will be released 1 or 2 weeks after SPoG, and currently I'm putting the finishing touches to my forthcoming "Discotheque Of Doom" (which will include a few custom graphics and custom music).

Stay tuned.

:) Release of Small Palace of Gore may be expected tomorrow. Be prepared!!

I only found 2 or 3 bugs in this mansion while I was beta-testing!  :o Hopefully I'll find more in future beta-testing. And umm... yeah.  ;) And I've got to admit, you are crazy at making mansions! You'll porobably make more before I even finish StarCraft Mansion!  ;D :D ;)

By the way... do you have a screenshot or two to share with your custom graphics for your newer mansions? (Newer then SPOG & POG)  :-?

Anthony wrote on 21.01.2007 at 01:11:24:

By the way... do you have a screenshot or two to share with your custom graphics for your newer mansions? (Newer then SPOG & POG)  :-?

Hi Wingy.... you probably mean screenshots from the Discotheque.... I haven't done any screenshots from the Discotheque yet, except those two I posted in the resp. thread a couple of weeks ago, but those didn't show any custom graphics yet.

You gotta know, in the Discotheque there will be only a few selected custom graphics... it won't be like Mummy's or TOTOMBS or your new one... simply for 2 reasons:

1. I started it using standard tiles and trying to make it look a bit unique even with those standard tiles (and had finished already 3/4 of it before I touched Rezilla for the first time)....  then I started to bring a few custom graphics in.
2. I might be quite skilled in the manipulation of photos and I like doing designs etc. - but I'm definitely NOT a good drawer or painter, so my abilities of really 'painting' new elements (like the grass in TOTOMBS for example) are rather limited.

Having said that, you can imagine that I use custom graphics in DoD only as added eye candy, and have not created an entirely new world.
Therefore I think it'll be better if I don't spoil the surprise effect, by posting screenshots now..... **

But, incidentally, this way of designing DoD, fits perfectly to its "storyline",  ("Jack has heard, that somewhere far away, a rich lunatic has built a discotheque inside of a hill.... but the path to it, is long and hard and only few...." etc. blah blah). So it starts pretty normal (design-wise) and gets more and more 'unusual', the deeper Jack enters.....

**BUT:  One thing I can tell you already: Jack will be wearing his fancy night-life outfit, when he goes looking for the Discotheque Of Doom.  But I wonder if that helps.... as only very few dancers have ever returned from there.... :)

aquaMat wrote on 21.01.2007 at 05:23:49:

**BUT:  One thing I can tell you already: Jack will be wearing his fancy night-life outfit, when he goes looking for the Discotheque Of Doom...

You mean you changed all 125 pictures of Jack's movements to add a Night-life suit??? To make Jack have a force feild for me I just used PhotoShop with a click or two with a glow!  :o

Anthony wrote on 21.01.2007 at 08:08:00:

You mean you changed all 125 pictures of Jack's movements to add a Night-life suit??? To make Jack have a force feild for me I just used PhotoShop with a click or two with a glow!  :o

Yeah, I did..... but as I didn't really add something (as you will see)...just changed it a bit, it wasn't that hard. ;)

Can that force-field of yours be "activated".... or is it always there ??

The Small Palace of Gore is downloadable now!! It is also the first mansion of which you will find some extra information about difficulty etc. at the download-page itself.

Even more information you will surely get from aquaMat, here at THIS topic on the boards, which is NOT about the Discotheque. ;)

Freddy wrote on 21.01.2007 at 19:25:09:

Even more information you will surely get from aquaMat, here at THIS topic on the boards, which is NOT about the Discotheque. ;)

Right, Freddy..... Wingy has put me off-topic here  :)

Further talk about the "Discotheque Of Doom" should be relocated to the thread of the same name....
....but I'll be happy to discuss questions about SPoG here !!

Meanwhile I wish y'all fun while exploring the Palace, and my first and foremost advice is:  Keep Your Eyes Open !

aquaMat wrote on 21.01.2007 at 18:58:21:

Can that force-field of yours be "activated".... or is it always there ??

It's always there. :) You can't expect it to go offline near the end, then Jack will die!  :'( For good!  :'( :'( :'( We don't want that to happen, do we?  ;)

Anyways... Is it possible to change keys and sheilds in your inventory? Thats a question that I really want to be answered. I suppose Vern would know...  ;)

Anyone visited this nice little palace yet? Or do you all prefer to go to the discotheque????

Freddy wrote on 26.01.2007 at 05:00:14:

Anyone visited this nice little palace yet? Or do you all prefer to go to the discotheque????

Thanks for that question, Freddy !!

I'm worried a bit myself...nobody's talking about what this thread IS about: SPoG....!

Nobody playing ?  :o

Boards or odd things. MM-fans, including myself, all have their own rhythm. While e.g. three new mansions are released, suddenly questions appear about Doldrum Dungeom or Nightmare Mansion. Meanwhile there are a lot of players visiting the new mansions but not posting anything at all.

Then suddenly, out of the blue and with weeks of delay, there is a hype about a mansion. And very paradoxically, it are often found mistakes that start topics. Joke of the day: keep one or more Jack-stucks in a new mansion.

So there is nothing to worry about and sooner or later ...