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Actionsoft's latest game, Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills,  includes 28 mansions. The 8 Built-in mansions have 3 difficulties along with 4 extra custom mansions. We don't have that many other custom MM2 mansions yet. Design your own custom mansion! Info below.  You can find out more about the game here.

The original Midnight Mansion game contains over 150 mansions. The 8 included mansions which have 3 difficulty levels each, and about 115 approved custom mansions which you can download here and also several freely uploaded mansions. To know the difference between these three types of mansions, click here.

Are you a creative person and thinking of designing a mansion yourself? Or want to know about how to upload it? Click here and we'll show you! You'll find guidelines for betatesters here.

News:
Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills version 1.0.2b has been released. This fixes a bug in Jasperlone Mountains Hard. Simply re-download the game, bring over your custom mansions folder from the old version and play on. All your saves and high scores will not be changed.

Midnight Mansion HD (MM1) is now available at the Mac App Store and at the Actionsoft website. A Windows version is now available.

Here is a list of downloadable MM1 HD ready custom mansions, which also work in the Windows version of the game.

The MM2 custom mansion Hanging Gardens of Babylon by Freddy/SandyBean/Josephine/brell was updated on 19. Nov 2023 to add a fourth section. Available here


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14.09.2007 at 11:00:37
 
Here's an oddball for you. Set the screen resolution to 640x480 and hold down option when the game starts up to start in windowed mode. The game should position the game window off the top of the screen to avoid clipping on the bottom. Start a game, and start running around. What do you see?

The effect is quite weird. It's like the game draws the room in the proper place, but Jack exists in a separate plane that is offset by about the amount the window is positioned off the top of the screen. When he runs around, he leaves a trail of offset graphics in his wake.

I discovered this because, for the first time ever, I tried playing Midnight Mansion on a widescreen monitor and found the stretching at 640x480 quite unacceptable. I set the lowest 16:10 resolution I could see (800x500), then started the game up in windowed mode.

Obviously, this is not a very common bug, so you may or may not want to fix it before the expansion pack ships. Smiley

(It happened in MM 1.0.8, not an XP beta, but I figured it was probably present there too.)
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Reply #1 - 15.09.2007 at 01:00:56
 
That's happened to me and I never bothered to say anything about it... I think it's something with the finder and screensize etc., but I'm not sure.
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Reply #2 - 15.09.2007 at 01:54:43
 
I always play in a window with 1680x1050 and millions of colors.  Never encoutered this problem.
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Reply #3 - 15.09.2007 at 04:29:37
 
Re: Brell: You'll only encounter it if the available vertical resolution of the screen (the menubar is not "available") is less than the size of the windowed-mode window.

I've since found that the best settings to use are to let MM set the screen to 800x500 and NOT play in windowed mode. I don't know why I didn't think of that in the first place; I must have been an idiot. Nevertheless, the bug stands. Wink
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Reply #4 - 15.09.2007 at 18:46:58
 
Interesting.

We never discussed this, screen resolutions.

I play - right from the beginning of MM - always in full-screen mode, but let the game switch to 640 x 480 (on a 19" monitor, normally running with 1280 x 960 (75 Hz) w/ 16 millions of colors).  Never ever had a problem.

The only problems I had, was when I tried to switch the EDITOR into the so-called "full-screen mode", which isn't a full-screen mode at all. (But we had discussed that one before).

BTW, brell: Why do you deliberately rob yourself of a big part of the playing experience by playing MM in a window ???
I always felt the game only really shines in full-screen mode, at nighttime, with the room lights turned off. Only then you see the full depth of the dark background tiles etc.
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Reply #5 - 15.09.2007 at 20:58:36
 
aquaMat wrote on 15.09.2007 at 18:46:58:
I always felt the game only really shines in full-screen mode, at nighttime, with the room lights turned off. Only then you see the full depth of the dark background tiles etc.

To play a mansion I completely agree. Roomlights out and no TV or HiFi. Only full-screen MM with sounds and music on.

But for beta-testing of course in a window, to be able to take notes and/or send/receive emails during "work".
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Reply #6 - 17.05.2008 at 01:23:31
 
Freddy wrote on 15.09.2007 at 20:58:36:
To play a mansion I completely agree. Roomlights out and no TV or HiFi. Only full-screen MM with sounds and music on.


Ahahahhahah. Sort of like watching a scarry movie, eh?
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