Maniac Mansion Mania Forum
Night of the Meteor => English => Thema gestartet von: Mister L am 31. Oktober 2010, 01:22:35
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Hi everyone!
The new 'Night of the Meteor'-Forum is now open!
Feel free to discuss anything about the game here!
On our website, we will frequently post news abot the game:
http://www.night-of-the-meteor.de/en
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Hi! Greetings from Spain!
Just a couple of comments:
First, are you planning on fixing the game's dead ends, so that you cannot be killed (as in later LucasArts graphic adventures), or will you leave the gameplay as it was in the original game (even with its puzzle "design flaws")?
Second, I think it would be nice to have the english version of the forum with the buttons in English (right now I see them in German, but Google did a pretty good job translating it)
Keep up the good work, it looks awesome!!!!
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We know that some dead-scenes are quite funny, (being killed by Ed, blowing up the house) but there will be no dead ends in "Night of the Meteor". You will always be able to finish the game. We've decided to do so because it became standard in later LA-Games and it does not frustate the player.
The forum is a german forum, so I don't know if it is possible to change the buttons for a sub-forum or give the option to cahnge langauges... (Question to a Mod... )
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You can change the Language in your Profile. Of course it won't change the language of the post's. ;)
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Greetings from the United States.
I wish you luck on this amazing project, and look forward to seeing it completed so that fans of the series can enjoy it.
My question is this...
Will canonical elements confirmed in Day of the Tentacle be standard storyline paths in Night of the Meteor?
...for example...
Day of the Tentacle confirms Bernard's participation in Maniac Mansion as story canon, and it confirms that he was part of the rescue trio...so, given Bernard being in Maniac Mansion is basically canon, will his selection as a character be set and standard, like Dave?
Also...will other canon elements confirmed in Day of the Tentacle be standard pre-set storyline paths in Night of the Meteor...such as...
- The microwaving of the hamster is confirmed by Day of the Tentacle as canon.
- Besides Dave and Bernard being canon as part of the rescue trio, by deduction either Razor or Syd is the third person of the rescue trio...since in Day of the Tentacle confirms Green Tentacle talks about his band and Weird Ed also talks about the hamster getting microwaved...supposedly only possible in Maniac Mansion with either Razor or Sid, pretty much making either one of them the third person alongside Dave and Bernard.
- Green Tentacle becoming an ally, pretty much confirmed in Day of the Tentacle, again, only really possible with Razor or Syd.
I also read that the ending where the Meteor gets arrested in Maniac Mansion is said to also be the canon ending...so will this be the default ending in Night of the Meteor?
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welcome to the maniac mansion forum page!
I think ony person from night of the meteor project can answer this question.
Wait a little bit and you became answers from one of the persons.
I thin the most thinks are the sames from Maniac mansion.
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As the game is a remake and not a reinterpretation I guess its safe to answer your question with a no. If it were that kind of canonical, it would make some solutions impossible. There are probably people out there (for sure in here, speak: me) who wouldnt like that at all ;)
But its just a guess, though.
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Greetings from the United States.
I wish you luck on this amazing project, and look forward to seeing it completed so that fans of the series can enjoy it.
Greetings from Germany, Malaysia and Austria! ;D
And thank you very much! :-*
Will canonical elements confirmed in Day of the Tentacle be standard storyline paths in Night of the Meteor?
No, we try to stay close to the original game.
The player will still have the choice on which 2 kids (besides Dave) he wants to be part of the rescue team.
And so there are many different ways to solve the game with many different storylines and endings.
But if you want to see the confirmed stuff from "Day of the Tentacle" in "Night of the Meteor", just play it this way. ;)
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Thank you to everyone for the welcome and the quick replies.
No, we try to stay close to the original game.
The player will still have the choice on which 2 kids (besides Dave) he wants to be part of the rescue team.
And so there are many different ways to solve the game with many different storylines and endings.
But if you want to see the confirmed stuff from "Day of the Tentacle" in "Night of the Meteor", just play it this way. ;)
Thank you for answering my question
I asked since it was mentioned that there will be no dead-scenes in Night of the Meteor (such as the house blowing up), so I wondered if additional non-canonical paths would also be eliminated. Thanks for answering this.
My other questions are more technical.
Most people I know use ScummVM to run Day of the Tentacle as well as other old adventure games on a modern PC....will Night of the Meteor need additional emulator programs to run?
Also, what OS platforms will Night of the Meteor support....will it run Windows XP? how about Windows 7?
Final question...will different aspect ratios be supported...4:3 standard? how about 16:9 Widescreen?...and will the more common resolutions be supported for those ratios (1024x768, 1280x960, 1920x1080).
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We're using AGS, so the game won't need emulators. It will run under Windows XP and Seven (the OS we've worked with so far, it also might probably run under ME and Vista if you're still using them)... We're using an AGS-engine that has been ported to Linux and we don't use special Plugins that require a Windows runtime. So there is a good chance that the game will play fine under linux but too but we haven't tested it yet.
The Game will be in 320x200 like "Day of the Tentacle", so there won't be graphics with higher resolution. The Aspect Ratio is the same a in "Day of the Tentacle" but since 320:200 equals 16:10, it does not look very weird on widescreen if you stretch it a little to fit the screen better. If your screen does not support fullscreen in 320x200, you can play the game in a 640x400 or 900 x 600 resolution (the game will still appear as a 320x200 game, it is only resized), you even might scale up to 1920 x 1200 or use some filters (but we recomend the three native resoultions) - you can play the game in fullscreen and window mode.
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Hello from New Jersey, USA! First off, I want to say that this project is simply amazing. You guys did an extremely good job in remaking this game and giving it the unique look that Day of the Tentacle has. My only question for you guys is when will the game be released?
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Well, this is the toughest question. All I can say is: "When it's done." :-[
It's still a long way to go... :-\
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Ah okay. Can't wait to play it. Keep up the good work!
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I was extremely excited to hear about your this project, the game looks like it is going to be amazing! Is there any thing you need help with in terms of programming? Are you planning on having voice throughout the game?
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@kynrek:
> At the moment there is no need for help with terms of programming. The lion's share of workload is still the animation-work.
> We're planing to have full voice-speech but it's still a long way to go before we can focus on the speech (the game has to be nearly completed for that!).
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@kynrek:
> At the moment there is no need for help with terms of programming. The lion's share of workload is still the animation-work.
> We're planing to have full voice-speech but it's still a long way to go before we can focus on the speech (the game has to be nearly completed for that!).
Are you planning to voice multiple languages?
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Are you planning to voice multiple languages?
We would love to have at least German and English Voice when the game is finished. But as I said: It's still a long way to go before we can think about that. Perhaps the first version will be without speech and the Voice-Pack will come afterwards, we haven't decided yet how we're going to handle it.
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Hey guys
1st of all, i really want to say that i'm a big fan of your work since the first day i saw a picture of it, more than 2 years ago ! Keep it on !
I was very happy to see your last update on your website, which means that the project is still on. All the work you did, all the sprites or landscapes you made are so close from dott, i am very impressed, I hope someday, I (and the world) will be able to play to that, the "new reference" for the MM remake :-P
I hope you'll see my message, wish you good luck and I hope you will post a little bit more of pics on the blog :-)
(do you have any idea about the progress of the work in % ? I know it'd be very difficult to guess ^^)
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Hi!
If you need a (male) voice actor, I'd love to help. I've done minor voice acting for short films and can do cartoony voices similar to the ones in Day of the Tentacle (and do them all the time for fun, much to my wife's chagrin). I realize this isn't a question or suggestion, I just wanted to offer to help as I LOVE Day of the Tentacle and wrote walkthroughs for Maniac Mansion back in the day. If you're at all interested in that, or just need help with moderating this part of the forum, or video editing/motion graphics work, let me know! I realize (based on your post above) it's a long ways off to think about this, but wanted to throw my hat in the ring! GOOD LUCK! I've bookmarked this site and will keep tabs on it; I love watching stuff like this happen!
- Doug
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Hello. Hopefully you guys still monitor this section, I see it hasn't had a post since 2017. This is the first I've heard of this remake as well as the PS4/ Windows remake of DoTT. Two questions, while I love the graphics of the original DoTT, the updated version is very nice. Do you guys have any plans to duplicate that versions graphics as well, for an alternate, or maybe this same project could have a selectable graphic style?
And second, the music. I grew up playing the NES game, and I think it has the BEST soundtrack. Any way to incorporate the NES music in your project, possibly as an alternate soundtrack?
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duplicate.. oops
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Hi there and welcome to the forum!
There is no plan to do a HD remake, the game is using the pixel style of the original.
This work load is more than enough ;)
As for the music, the original NES themes will not be 1:1 in the game, but the new music might be based on them 8)
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Hi there and welcome to the forum!
The is no plan to do a HD remake, the game is using the pixel style of the original.
This work load is more than enough ;)
As for the music, the original NES themes will not be 1:1 in the game, but the new music might be based on them 8)
Yeah, I can imagine it would be difficult to do an HD remake as well! The pixel style is awesome anyway! And yeah, I was kind of thinking about sort of "HD" versions of the NES themes, that would be wonderful. Day of the Tentacle was great, but way more linear compared to Maniac Mansion. I can't believe they never made an official version with voice acting! Can't wait for this to be released!
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Have you ever considered moving your social media from Facebook to a rather more active social media as Facebook is pretty much dying out?
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Have you ever considered moving your social media from Facebook to a rather more active social media as Facebook is pretty much dying out?
Hi, since we're not posting so much on social media at the moment that's something to consider when the game reaches beta status.
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does the beta version is about close to be released ?
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does the beta version is about close to be released ?
Hi, there has been lots of progess in the last year but it is still too early to release a beta.
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Hi there, I am Mehmet from Turkey. I am playing Maniac Mansion Mania episodes since I was 15 years old(I am 27 now). As far as I see, there are no English language options in the episodes. If you guys need a translator, I can help you with it. I also can help you with Turkish translation if there are Turkish players in the community. I am always around to help you guys if needed.
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Hi Mehmet,
welcome to the forum.
In some episodes there are different other languages available. (Mostly English and Italian).
You can select them when starting winsetup.exe, which is bundled with the episodes.
As far as I know there is no episode with Turkish language yet.
If you like to translate some you're highly welcome!
Just write the author of the episode you like to translate and he can give you a text file where you can inclue your translation.
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We're using AGS, so the game won't need emulators. It will run under Windows XP and Seven (the OS we've worked with so far, it also might probably run under ME and Vista if you're still using them)... We're using an AGS-engine that has been ported to Linux and we don't use special Plugins that require a Windows runtime. So there is a good chance that the game will play fine under linux but too but we haven't tested it yet.
Greetings from Canada! ;D
Could you provide an update on the platforms you are planning to release for? Will it still be Windows and Linux? Thanks! 8)
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We're using AGS, so the game won't need emulators. It will run under Windows XP and Seven (the OS we've worked with so far, it also might probably run under ME and Vista if you're still using them)... We're using an AGS-engine that has been ported to Linux and we don't use special Plugins that require a Windows runtime. So there is a good chance that the game will play fine under linux but too but we haven't tested it yet.
Greetings from Canada! ;D
Could you provide an update on the platforms you are planning to release for? Will it still be Windows and Linux? Thanks! 8)
Or are you thinking Windows only? Asking so I have the latest and correct info on this for something.. 8)
Awesome project by the way - keep up the great work and looking forward to the release!
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Hi there CGS, welcome to the forum! :D
The game is developed with the AGS engine, so it will run on whatever system AGS supports.
Windows will work for sure, I also successfully tested it on Android some time ago.
Native AGS has Linux support, but I am not sure if this is really a 100% thing and we haven't tested it so far. :-\
Luckily ScummVm now also supports AGS games which increases the platform support even further.
One thing I have noticed with MMM episodes on different platforms is that there is always a problem with MIDI support.
But since NotM does not use MIDI, this should not be a problem.
However, it is hard to say on which platform the final game will work when it is released. :cl
We will see it when we get there.
I hope that answers your question. ;)
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Hi there CGS, welcome to the forum! :D
The game is developed with the AGS engine, so it will run on whatever system AGS supports.
Windows will work for sure, I also successfully tested it on Android some time ago.
Native AGS has Linux support, but I am not sure if this is really a 100% thing and we haven't tested it so far. :-\
Luckily ScummVm now also supports AGS games which increases the platform support even further.
One thing I have noticed with MMM episodes on different platforms is that there is always a problem with MIDI support.
But since NotM does not use MIDI, this should not be a problem.
However, it is hard to say on which platform the final game will work when it is released. :cl
We will see it when we get there.
I hope that answers your question. ;)
Hello, thanks for the reply and thorough answer on this! This definitely helps and is great to know ;D
The AGS engine sounds great and that there is some good possibilities for the platforms for the final game. I'll assume at this time that Windows is likely confirmed and the other platforms are still TBD. Very cool and interesting to hear it has ScummVm support as well. I appreciate you sharing insights and info on the game and look forward to more updates! ;)
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One thing to notice according MMM and ScummVM-Support:
Unfortunatly ScummVM has problems to display the fonts used in MMM.
When the displayed speeking text includes a German character (f.e. ä,ü,ö)
it will be skipped in the base font, but not in the outline,
which results in the outline not fitting on the base font.
This makes the text barely readable.
Additionally, some characters (f.e. z) look very strange.
Or is this issue already fixed?
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One thing to notice according MMM and ScummVM-Support:
Unfortunatly ScummVM has problems to display the fonts used in MMM.
When the displayed speeking text includes a German character (f.e. ä,ü,ö)
it will be skipped in the base font, but not in the outline,
which results in the outline not fitting on the base font.
This makes the text barely readable.
Additionally, some characters (f.e. z) look very strange.
Or is this issue already fixed?
I'm positve that the support for AGS will improve with the next versions of ScummVM. If you give the ScummVM Feedback in the forums that might also help.
It also depends which AGS version the game was compiled with. NOTM runs quite stable with ScummVM at the moment but there are some minor differences. Text looks okay at the current version, the ä looks a bit weird at the moment. Most of the game plays quite well with ScummVM. The minigame I scripted for Meteor Mess does not work - but that wasn't final so this has to be redone.
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I'm liking a lot everything I'm seeing about Night of the Meteor! How can I help to make more pixel-art animations on the real game?
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I'm liking a lot everything I'm seeing about Night of the Meteor! How can I help to make more pixel-art animations on the real game?
Well, can you do pixel-art animations? Or do you know somebody who can? 8)