Murder Mansion

by SuperSaiyanGokuX

Not for the faint of heart...

11/04/07

Just a note to let everyone know that I've made a few fixes to the preview edition files linked in the post below...

1) Lights should be working now
2) Some of the lighting errors are fixed (light spilling through closed doors, and others)
3) The huge loading time when opening the game is greatly improved
4) Hosted games should now show up on this page, so feel free to host using the new files!

10/31/07

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (again)

So, here's a little present (one year after the last) for everyone who has been waiting so patiently:

http://www.dbtrinity.com/MyStorage/BYOND/ murder_mansionhalloween07.zip

It's still not quite ready to become the official update (you'll see the problems that remain), but it's playable enough to let everyone check it out! Have fun!

Note that it loads very slowly at the moment... It does a LOT of pre-game set up for each map, and it takes an extra few seconds to get through it (heck, on slower machines, it might not move at all) Also note that the hospital map runs extremely slowly with AI players (appears to be caused by the AI pathing nt liking that map; I'll be trying to optimize it to run better), the other two maps seem to work fine, though (for me, anyways)

10/31/06

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The update is not quite ready yet... It's probably full of bugs (worse than usual), and there's some stuff that isn't completely finished yet...

However, since today is Halloween, I depserately want everyone to get the chance to play this new version... It's just so darn fitting, right?

So, below you'll find a link to the package of the new version so far...

Again, please, please note that I'm not done working, and I know that much of it is broken (which means don't judge the coming product on this), but it works well enough to play through at least one round...lol

Try to play it multiplayer, though, without AI... They're still not fully functional (at this point, they may not be functional at all, as I made a couple of changes that re-broke them)

Feel free to report bugs (they'll help me list the things I still need to work on for the actual release) but again, don't worry too much about them, as I'm still working...

Anyways, Happy Halloween, and enjoy (I hope)!

Oh, and the "Camp" map will come up in the selection, and you can choose it, but it doesn't have any decoration, or item spawners (except for some food and drink spawners I tossed in to test the AI pathing routines) Go ahead and check it out, though!

http://www.dbtrinity.com/MyStorage/BYOND/ mm_halloween_preview.zip

03/27/06

Well, after a series of major setbacks, my webhost is finally back up, so the game files are once again available!

03/22/06

Good news and bad news:

The bad news is that my webhost is currently experiencing difficulties, and the game files aren't accessible for now... People who have already downloaded it can host, though, and people who join should download the files from them... But if you're completely new to the game, you won't be able to download and play/host your own just yet... They're working on getting the problem fixed, but I don't know how long it'll take...

What's the good news?

I'm baaaaack...

My work on DBTC seems to be dying down (after I finally got the update out, there were a long list of bugs to fix) so I'm now once again working on Murder Mansion!

Don't expect anything new soon, though...lol It might take me a while to get anywhere... Fortunately, this will be far easier/faster than working on DBTC, as Murder Mansion is actually a much simpler game (believe it or not)

What to expect?

Well, I don't want to give too much away, but I do have a long list of changes and additions planned... Among those are the addition of a handful of new maps (not other Mansions, mind you, but a wide range of different locales) Also planned is a nice list of new game modes... "Classic" Murder Mansion will still be there, but joining that will be a few other types of play... Both playing map and game mode will be selectable by the host when they begin the game...

Virtualy all game systems will be getting an upgrade as well... AI will be improved (it greatly needs it, right? lol), the interface will be improved, the gameplay itself will be improved (increased stealth abilities, strengthening the mystery aspects, etc), and even the character icons are getting a facelift (they were made simple and generic on purpose, but this seems to be everyone's number one graphical complaint, so I'll make them look nicer)

So get yourselves ready... The game you all love is about to get even better...

But, don't hold your breath waiting, I'm notriously slow...lol

12/29/05

No, not an update yet... Just decided to throw a screenshot onto the HUB entry... But, don't worry, my work on DBTC is getting closer and closer to being finished, and Murder Mansion is next!

07/22/05

Well, 2nd place didn't last long, but for a brief time, it hung up there... 9th (as of this writing) is still very commendable...

Anyways, I'm putting up this note to ask the players to head over to the MM forum (linked above under "Download") to reply to a message I just posted, titled "Need Input!"...

Thanks!

07/08/05

Ranked 2nd place on the BYOND Top Ranked Games listing!

I doubt MM will ever overthrow Chatters for the top spot, but 2nd place is far more than I ever imagined...

I just wanted to first, thank everyone, and second, let everyone know that Murder Mansion is far from dead (no pun intended)...

As I've promised before, Murder Mansion will be updated as soon as I finish my current work on DBTC, my other big project...

Well, that work is nearing to its end, and should be knocked out in one or two more weeks (well, if all goes well, and I can keep myself working at a decent pace)

And after that, MM is up!

My plan is to first overhaul the existing game, optimizing its old and bloated systems, hopefully eradicating many of the existing bugs, and preparing it for easier expansion (as it currently sits, adding more to it is a rough undertaking... I'll be tweaking the engine to make it much more flexible to add on)...

Which means that once that phase is over, I'll be moving on to the really fun stuff: adding content and improving what's already there!

There's a LOT planned, including more maps (one of which I already started crafting a long time ago), an improved game system (point-based rounds, with a saved "career" score, is something I'm planning), better player graphics (the current ones definitely don't match the detail of the Mansion, but the new ones will) and much, much more (which will all have to be a surprise)

So anyways, Thank You again to all of the dedicated fans who have been patiently (and sometimes, IMpatiently) waiting for me to pick this monster back up while I've been working on my "silly DBZ game"...lol

And I'm extremely honored to find my little creation sitting where it is on the ranking list, even though it's rather buggy and unfinished...lol

Expect to hear from me again (relatively) soon!

Enter the Murder Mansion, and try to come out alive!