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February 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM1 Sky Boxes (version 1.3) by Semi-Native
January 2025's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM1 The Bat House (version 1.1) by Chippy
- for MM2 Brave New World (version 1.1) by Freddy
- for MM1 Art minds mansion (version 1.1) by Veronika
December 2024's updates of custom mansions are:
- for MM2 Hanging Gardens of Babylon (version 4.1) by Freddy, SandyBean, Josephine and brell
- for MM1 Cheetah Castle Easy (version 1.2) and Cheetah Castle Normal (version 1.2) both by Catwoman.

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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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Reply #60 - 05.08.2008 at 22:43:26
 
Missy wrote on 28.07.2008 at 16:06:42:
Hi Rose,

Newbies cannot ask in the forum, if all Admins are on holidays and no one is available to allow them to post.


As far as I know it has not happened yet since this forum was opened that all admins are absent at the same time.  If it should happen then the newbie just has to wait.  I will not open this forum so that anyone can register and start to post right away.  I do not have the time to delete a few dozens of porn ads every day (and ban those mebers that post such ads and onther stuff we don't want here).

Missy wrote on 28.07.2008 at 16:06:42:
How many people do you know read the instructions on anything they buy and have to assemble?  The same goes for games.  People just want to jump in and play. yes? no?
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I always read the instructions/manuals first.  Save me a lot of time, trouble and frustration.
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Reply #61 - 05.08.2008 at 22:50:45
 
Lara wrote on 30.07.2008 at 04:01:05:
Whilst we are talking about organising things, what do we think about tidying up the message board a bit?

I often think that the message board looks quite big and confusing. Many message boards have a main page, and then some sub pages. What do the admins think about changing the board so we have the following main pages?

- Announcements
- Midnight Mansion Game
- Expansion Pack
- Custom Mansions Area
- Free Chat


But these already are our main pages !?  We call them categories.  Inside the categories there are the boards.  What you are asking is that we hide the boards within the categories.  I don't think that is possible and I am sure that it would take more time for people to search the boards if we did that.

Lara wrote on 30.07.2008 at 04:01:05:
Also, if we want to promote the totally awesome custom mansions, maybe we could move the Custom Mansions up the page?

What about this order?

- Midnight Mansion Game
- Custom Mansions Area
- Announcements
- Expansion Pack
- Free Chat


Just some ideas...  Smiley


It is easy to change the order of categories and/or the boards within but IMO the announcements category should be at the top.
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Reply #62 - 05.08.2008 at 22:54:05
 
Missy wrote on 30.07.2008 at 04:15:44:
YES,

And in each category, maybe each mansion can have it's own Topic header so that one does not have to surf all over the forum for hints.  



When we started this forum Freddy and I wanted to do exactly what you are asking:  One board for each mansion.  Nobody liked that idea.  If we did that today we would have over 100 (!) more boards than we have today.
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Reply #63 - 05.08.2008 at 22:57:13
 
Missy wrote on 31.07.2008 at 18:26:44:
Hello,

Pls. note the page numbers at the bottom or the top of the page.  In other Topics they are even smaller.

Well, it's hard to see which page number is selected.  Also, it would be nice if their was a "next page" option.

Thank you



This is something that is restricted by the forum software and there is nothing we can do about it.
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Reply #64 - 06.08.2008 at 18:20:12
 
brell wrote on 05.08.2008 at 22:54:05:
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When we started this forum Freddy and I wanted to do exactly what you are asking:  One board for each mansion.  Nobody liked that idea.  If we did that today we would have over 100 (!) more boards than we have today.

Indeed. But now we are many months and ... MANSIONS later, I think it is a good time to ask this important question again.

The current option is: only 5 boards for the most recent custom mansions (+ Catacombs) and all the others (80+ !!!) are in 'Talk'. An abbreviations-system should Undecided help to find the requested info. That needs a lot of manual work for us, admins, but I am not sure if it is all so obvious (for Newbies).

The alternative is an 'encyclopedia' with 1 board per custom mansion.

So my question is: "Is there something wrong with a good 'dictionary'?" One only needs to know the alphabet. Comparing with finding the wanted information about a custom mansion in a pretty quick and very LOGICAL way, strolling may be a rather small discomfort. Undecided

Once again: yell ! Wink
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Reply #65 - 06.08.2008 at 19:07:46
 
It is good if you know the alphabet but many mansions starts with "The"!!!!
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Reply #66 - 06.08.2008 at 19:41:10
 
You have a good point! And all the others start with "A"!

Let me think about it.
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Reply #67 - 06.08.2008 at 19:59:27
 
Freddy wrote on 06.08.2008 at 19:41:10:
You have a good point! And all the others start with "A"!


ALL the others ???
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Reply #68 - 06.08.2008 at 20:06:18
 
End of my thoughts. Smiley Wink

In a Belgian telephone book you will see (in alphabetical order):

- Vanden Zorghe Pieter
- Van de Velde Jan
- Van Overschelde Karel

But in a Dutch telephone book you will see (in alphabetical order):
- Overschelde Karel, Van
- Velde Jan, Van de
- Zorghe Pieter, Vanden

Now, for the same reasons (to organize our boards), can we say:

- Lost Jungle, The
- Tale of One City, A
etc.    ?

Please, talk.

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Reply #69 - 06.08.2008 at 21:11:52
 
I agree with the Dutch system (Lost Jungle, the, etc).

What about having a "conversation" on top of all others containing the alphabetical list of mansions, and the names are clickable with a link to the relevant Topic? (Is this possible at all?) Or to include a link to the relevant Topic in the Downloads list (like:
CRANES by Surcouf
First release on 05.08.08
Forum Topic at ......)
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