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Leon Adventurer Offline Posts: 353 Chichester, UK Gender:	Re: ActionSoft and Midnight Mansion's future Reply #20 - 22.04.2014 at 05:00:01 Where'd everyone go? Hope to hear more from you all pretty soon... I miss making mansions so much now haha
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Reply #21 - 22.04.2014 at 07:50:46

I was thinking the very same thing. Perhaps others have encountered the same
problem I did. I upgraded my Mac to version 10.9 and MM2 won't work with
it. I can only play the original MM1.

And from what I was told many moons ago, Vern did not want to continue
with MM bcos updating the system (I am so not computer savvy, so forgive
my lack of proper terminology) to enable it to work with the newest Apple system,
would be expensive and very time consuming. I completely understand this.

So, since MM2 is not 10.9 friendly, I guess everyone just moved on to other
things. Sad. Really, really sad. Sad

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Reply #22 - 27.04.2014 at 14:31:02

Actually, I have a version of Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills running on the latest OSes just fine. It's not 100% finished though, so I just have to find the time to finish, but this will definitely be released in HD "sometime".

It's rather the *Level Builder* that might never get updated. I dream of this happening sometimes, as I realize the community here has 'mostly died' due to not having a level builder that works on modern Macs, and I'd love to see it revived... but updating the level builder would be quite time-consuming.

But not as time-consuming as I had originally though... so maybe it'll happen sometime. It's just hard to want to spend *more* time on the computer after spending all day on the computer at work! But I really do miss game development, so I hope to keep working on the game here and there when I can.

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Missy Treasure Hunter Offline Posts: 601 Toronto, Canada Gender:	Re: ActionSoft and Midnight Mansion's future Reply #23 - 27.04.2014 at 14:42:24 Thank you for the update Vern. I think everyone in the MM community feels the same way. We miss MM2 and the custom mansions. It would be great to get things back to where they were. Please don't forget to let me know when MM2 will play on my 10.9 version. Thank you
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Reply #24 - 27.04.2014 at 17:22:41

VernJensen wrote on 27.04.2014 at 14:31:02:

Actually, I have a version of Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills running on the latest OSes just fine. It's not 100% finished though, so I just have to find the time to finish, but this will definitely be released in HD "sometime".

It's rather the *Level Builder* that might never get updated. I dream of this happening sometimes, as I realize the community here has 'mostly died' due to not having a level builder that works on modern Macs, and I'd love to see it revived... but updating the level builder would be quite time-consuming.

But not as time-consuming as I had originally though... so maybe it'll happen sometime. It's just hard to want to spend *more* time on the computer after spending all day on the computer at work! But I really do miss game development, so I hope to keep working on the game here and there when I can.

You are really awesome Cheesy

BTW I wouldn't object go you doing a kickstarter campaign if you need more funds Wink

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josephine Adventurer Offline Posts: 332 California Gender:	Re: ActionSoft and Midnight Mansion's future Reply #25 - 27.04.2014 at 20:22:26 Vern that would be GREAT! (And yeah, Kickstarter ) I for one, have no intention of ever quitting MM. As long as I can dual boot or whatever it takes to play and build.
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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1803 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: ActionSoft and Midnight Mansion's future Reply #26 - 04.05.2014 at 23:46:42 It would be very nice to have MMII in HD version playable on 10.9. I would be ready to pay for MMI and II HD level builders and I guess that most MM fans would, too.
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Missy Treasure Hunter Offline Posts: 601 Toronto, Canada Gender:	Re: ActionSoft and Midnight Mansion's future Reply #27 - 05.05.2014 at 04:23:51 Yes Brell, I agree.
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Reply #28 - 05.05.2014 at 13:48:04

Indeed, the economical cost for a Level Builder is far less [unless Vern charge us $243809873240987 of course…] than the joy gained in a revival of this community and (hopefully) new members with building skills will also emerge.

Hopefully the future OS's don't cause that much problems in updating the apps…

@ Vern: If you could estimate the price you think would be appropriate for the Level Builders MMHD I and II and ask if we would be willing to pay for it?

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Semi-Native YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1431 Orlando, FL USA Gender:	Re: ActionSoft and Midnight Mansion's future Reply #29 - 05.05.2014 at 18:09:48 I think all of us die-hard MM'ers would be willing to pay for updated level builders, but Vern said his issue is time, not having much spare time to apply to it. Hopefully, some day. Thanks for checking in with us, Vern.
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