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February 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
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A brief history of the game
At first there was Midnight Mansion, now often called MM1. This game package was for Mac only and contained 8 mansions, each on easy, normal and hard level. Above that there was a builder included, so that customers could design mansions themselves.
Then there was Midnight Mansion HD, now abbreviated as MM1 HD for both Mac and Windows. It contained the 3x8 mansions from MM1 plus 3x a bonus mansion: Tomb of Princes. All in high definition!
Actionsoft's latest game, Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills, includes 28 mansions with a lot of new features. The 8 built-in mansions have 3 difficulties along with 4 extra custom mansions. Yes indeed, the MM2 package also has an included builder to create mansions!

Custom mansions

In the past decades several customers started experimenting with the builders. Creating rooms. Talking about it on the Midnight Mansion Forums. Sending their own designed mansions to other board members to test them. And finally sending them to the administrators of MMF.
Result? Nearly 200 extra mansions are downloadable from these boards and some of them have over 100 rooms.
If you like to download custom mansions, go to the General Custom Mansions Area (Mac and Windows) where you find the lists with all the download spots.

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13.12.2007 at 02:32:10
 
I just got a trial version of Painter X (www.corel.com) is great for making backgrounds for Midnight Mansion. There's a free trial there.

This image I painted in 3 minutes... If I put a bit more effort into it, then it would become a great background for Midnight Mansion.

I first paint-bucketed the background dark blue, then did a few angled strokes of an oil brush with a slightly brighter blue to make that nice Midnight sky. The ground I used a green and a normal brush, and the trees on the ground where just  dark-greenish-brown color. The stars where just white dots, just clicked with a normal brush at a reasonable size.

The moon, was a nice detail. It was like doing the star, (just clicking once, not dragging, with a bigger brush) Then I got a smaller brush and drew the craters and stuff on the moon with a normal grey tone.

Then I got this picture... took me 3 minutes.
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Reply #1 - 15.12.2007 at 18:59:33
 
hey wingy, how i can download it painter X?  Embarrassed
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Reply #2 - 16.12.2007 at 03:00:33
 
Uhh... I think you gotta make an account on the Corel website then you can download it. If you're having trouble, use google to translate the page.
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Reply #3 - 16.12.2007 at 20:02:05
 
okayokayokay...
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