So.. I've sort of come back to BYOND, and I find that Hex has not stopped production on the game, but he's really slowed down on it. And now I've got people complaining about save bugs and..well let me put some things straight.

1. I am working on the game. I am looking for coders to look at the Login.dm to solve a bug that involves the player's mob sometimes (not always) getting deleted at Login, which calls the Logout. Contact me via hotmail (Dion-45@hotmail.com) if you think you can help with this problem.

2. Icon wise, there are lots of Pokemon icons that need to be completed, so if you can pay attention to detail and instruction, I can start you up on that. Any Pokemon you icon, you can have within the game, but don't everyone rush to do the legendairies. Will not be handing those out.

3. The game will remain down for now.. Cause I don't have a version that is playable and does not bug up. Hex's version is very buggy, my old one is gone.

4. From point 3, I want everyone to conclude that I will not be fixxing your saves.. And there will be a Pwipe if/when the new version comes out.

Hey so..

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It is currently half hour till midnight in my region, and I thought I'd make a quick post on BYOND cause I didn't feel like working on the game or hosting it(as I currently can't). My router was..somehow struck with lightning, according to my father, and so it no longer is usable. In order to host the game again, I need to find someone who can host..really well. Or I need to wait for my super-duper-knows-everything-about-hooking-up-routers-friend. Either way, game might be down for a bit.

As the production goes, the game has taken a different route I planned. They Berry System is complete, to a satisfactory level. I still need to make it so your pokemon won't attack other pokemon in your party. Example: Lets say your Butterfree uses Confusion on a little nooblets Caterpie. Any pokemon in the area will then attack the Butterfree if they are hit with the Confusion. Rather annoying as you see all the Pokemon attack eachother.

I might scrap my "August Goals" post, as I now realize, even though I've done some of it, that I will never look into doing some of things on it. Just trust me when I say I am working on the game to the point of no social life.

Now I'd like to ask something of you all in return...
A) Don't spam my blog about the game not being up, or not being able to join the game, or post 4 comments in the time spam of 2 hours(Cameron >.>).

B) I know you all want to help, or at least some of you do as I keep getting spammed with help questions. But I do not need: coding help, mapping help, GM help. Icons need to be done aswell, I need all the Pokemon icons. DO NOT THINK: that if you have Swifts icon library of all the Pokemon icons, you can help me. I have that already, but every Pokemon needs to have a seperate icon file, organized to meet whatever icon requirments it needs(Sleep, Send Out State, Tackle, Scratch, Fire Ember, Harden, Witthdraw, etc, etc). If you think you have a decent icon for an attack, tell me at Dion-45@hotmail.com, cause I can't icon the attacks very well :D

C)This is on the game, but please don't ask questions about the Pokemon, like what level they evolve or when they learn certain moves. I get all my information from www.Bulbapedia.com. So check the stats there and stop crowding OOC.

D)D (<).(<) Look Double D's XD

E) The game will be down until Berry Party is completed 100%, the next town is in(Water), and the begginers quest is finished.

G) F makes me think of failure so I skipped it. If you have anymore questions, ask in the comments.

Camerongray wrote:
> valen unban me cause your need to.

I need too. Explain why I NEED to? You will see this a lot in this post, but I have complete control over the game, unless BYOND feels the need to step into whatever problems are going on because they are affecting the BYOND community as a whole. However it is not, so do not say you can snap your fingers and get Dan or Tom on my ass.

Camerongray wrote:
> yeah do your job.

My job? Okay let me list what my "job" includes:
Build an amazing Pokemon game
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Nope don't see anywhere on there about babysitting noobs, or unbanning them for that matter. Whatever I want to do is my job, so if I wanted to, I could shut down the game, and you know what? No one could stop me. Which is the same for your banning, no one can stop me from banning you. No one can MAKE me unban you.

Ash10000 wrote:
> no you don't valen.so unban me or do you wanna settle this with byond's creator.

BYOND's creators*. As in plural, as in there were two of them. Dan and Tom would not give a fuck about what you are doing. Also, this is my game, I have every right to choose who plays it and who doesn't. You have no right to threaten me however, as empty as those threats are. Its not making your case any better. So from now on, I will have to limit my blog to only BYOND members can post here. Thanks Cameron, you've ruined it for everyone.

NOW Cameron, stay the fuck away from my blog. In total I've deleted a total of 52 of your useless comments, begging, pleading, threatening me, to get back on the game. You are NEVER getting back on, so NEVER come back here.

Now I played this game way back, and I mean really far back to early stages when there were a total of about 5-6 spells. The game, since then, has progressed immensely.

However, for the four or five years since then, it has started to slow down in production. TWC(as it is often abbreviated) is an ever updating Harry Potter game in which you pick a house at the famous school of "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry". The staff remains friendly and well picked, the community friendly and helpful, and a history to match a soap opera.

Gameplay: 4

Like almost any game on BYOND, the main purpose of the game seems to level as high as possible. The main methods of training are Book Reading, which at times can bore the player beyond belief. Another method would be monster killing, which also rewards money in the game, but not enough to satisfy by giving experience. It is suggested that more enjoyable forms of leveling are put in.

However, a wide variety of spells has built up in the game over time. They range in different classes, literally. You can learn different spells in different classes which are held by the GMs (or professors as the community calls them). These spells serve 4 purposes it seems.

Offence: Dueling is one of the games main sports and has created competition among the players(the drive behind the leveling). Although dueling does seem to be whoever can spam spells the fastest in a 3x9 dueling arena, it can entertain the simplest of minds.

Defense: A lot of spells are put in to prevent Offensive spells. These include effects such as blinding or freezing the opponent, or healing yourself. Quite useful to protect yourself from spammers or abusers.

Pranks: Most of these are transfiguring spells, turning the target into an animal or perhaps hanging the person from their feet. This is a "joke" and doesn't really have any purpose other than to make people laugh. Easily abused however.

...Useful: These spells help you get around the game, such as taking you to the main hotspots on the map, or locating another player.

Another secondary goal is to get all 100 odd spells in the game.

Other than this, there are a few quests in the game, small, but there. Outside of training and classes, clans are the only other thing to entertain the user as well as events held by the Professors every once in a while.

Through Clans (Aurors(Good) or Death Eaters(Evil)) there is a division between the players, which normally creates events of pitting them against each other and devious planning.


Presentation:5
The game has used the same graphics from the original rip it started from. They fit in areas, but they are nothing special and could be revamped. At one point, there were sounds, for entering doors(they were a sort of Sci-Fi Door "CONFIRM AUTHORIZATION" for password doors) that did not fit the game, but they were removed. As it stands, the game does not use sound anymore.

The mapping is..large, everything is overdone. Somethings do not match what could relate to the book, in the fact that Diagon Alley is a walk away from Hogwarts, and Hogwarts is a mere 4 floors.

There is player customization in the form of "Wigs" and "Bling" in which costs a LARGE amount of money. It is assumed these are prizes from the events. Other than these items, everyone has the same icon, with different colours to differentiate from different houses.

Originality:5 1/2

This game started from a rip..

It is a Harry Potter Fan game.

HOWEVER: Close to half of the spells and quests are original and enjoyable. The layout is completely of their own, and so the previous factors are somewhat forgotten.


Overall: 6

I liked the game at one point, I really did. But sooner or later, you realize its faults, and realize not much is being done about it. Like I said before, the game has made a lot of progress from what it once was, training on little puppies in a field, Giant Scorpians and what not, but it took a LONG time just to reach where it is today. This leaves the question: How long till it reaches completion or a level of lasting satisfaction of the player?