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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!

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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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"A Fine Mess" is a FINE Mansion !!!
29.05.2011 at 01:43:10
 
Hi 2 Loons,

Really enjoyed this mansion, the size, the puzzles and the layout.  The skeleton was an added bonus !  Well done, can't wait to see more of your creations. 

Had a question, can Jack get to this gold coin in the lower right corner?

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Reply #1 - 29.05.2011 at 01:44:52
 
Also, my poor Jack found out the hard way that the lantern he just landed on here was for decoration purposes only !!!  We had to start over from the last save point  Smiley
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Reply #2 - 31.05.2011 at 07:49:34
 
Thanks for A FINE MESS:
This is the first time in several months that I actually had fun again playing MM. (For quite some time I hadn't been in the mood for playing, let alone designing mansions.)

I am only a few rooms beyond the 1st save so far - and I really like it a lot.

However I came onto a severe JS-situation in rooms 16301 / 16901.

After I had pulled the lever at the bottom right side of room #16301, I did accidentially die by falling from the ledge above the lever. Then I was reborn at the left (entrance) side of the room and this time I decided to explore the inside of the "skull" first - not knowing, of course, that this would lead me automatically down the pole....way down into room # 16901. 
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In 16601 then, I was stuck - without a return path or even suicide left as an option, because I ended there WITHOUT having a red or blue key.
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This is always the inherent danger when using those poles, that players might take them too early in the game and then can not return.
You should only use a pole when you have made sure that a player has definitely picked up all necessary items first - for example by putting it at the end of a given route. OR: you must include a return path / option.

BTW: In one other, earlier room I encountered a cheap death situation, but I forgot the room number.

Apart from that - and judged by the rooms I have seen so far - this is a very well designed mansion, with the right degree of easier vs. harder spots, amount of money supplied and suspense level.

Well done !
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Reply #3 - 06.06.2011 at 23:39:01
 
In the meantime I found one or two more lethal Jack-stucks.... and one more "Point of no return - Scenario" (comparable to the pole-situation below).

Unfortunately I have forgotten to write down the room numbers, so I have to replay from save 1 and hope it happens again....
Then I'll come back here w/ the details.
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Reply #4 - 06.06.2011 at 23:42:14
 
SandyBean wrote on 29.05.2011 at 01:44:52:
Also, my poor Jack found out the hard way that the lantern he just landed on here was for decoration purposes only !!!  We had to start over from the last save point  Smiley


Wow....how did you manage to get to where that lantern is ??

(I wondered myself - when I visited this room for the first time - if the designer expects us to collect this lantern.... but then decided it was put there for design purposes and ignored it).
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Reply #5 - 07.06.2011 at 00:35:45
 
Hi aquaMat,

My Jack jumped down from the room above !  Very daring boy if I do say so myself, always getting into trouble  Grin

Take care,

SandyBean   Smiley
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Reply #6 - 26.10.2012 at 04:05:59
 
Tough & tricky mansion, it's great.  However, I seem to be stuck in room 16903.
Pls see pic.  My Jack can't figure out how to get down.  He dies if he tries to land on the moving yellow brick.  There is no lever up there to change the yellow blocks.  Hmm?

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Reply #7 - 26.10.2012 at 04:56:58
 
Room 14695 - Jack Stuck.  The bat mobile sank without Jack.  See pic.

I have found quite a few glitches in this game which I didn't post bcos I noticed that the designer did not respond to others who left comments.  Hmmm?

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