Day of the Petmar???

[Cyrus]

I have heard rumblings of another (yes, one more! ) DOTT project located at this website: http://physics.ramapo.edu/~petmar/remake/ . However, all the links are dead, so I ask if anyone knows about that project. Hope I haven't bored the community with my MI and DOTT fanatism.

[Sam.]

Alas cyrus, you have.

[Andail]

especially since your fanaticism is aimed at dead projects. What is it with dead projects that fascinates you so much?

[Akatosh]

Virtual necrophilia?

[lo_res_man]

call me a spoil sport but I really don't see the point of a DOTT remake. if you want it to look all high res use some of the filter in scummvm, they are quite effective.

[Vince Twelve]

If you delete the /remake part of the url it goes to his main website, which links to his blog at

http://petmar.blogspot.com/

which he has posted in recently.  Why don't you go there and ask him?

It's always better to go to the source rather than ask a lot of people who don't know, don't care, and get annoyed easily.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I don't see anything wrong with being interested in remakes or anything wrong with posting about them in this particular forum.  I think another maniac mansion game could be quite interesting in the right hands, but 'right hands' is a subject of much contention even beyond ags.  Some would say only Gary Winnick and Ron Gilbert could do it justice while others aren't so loyal.  The only requirement I have is that it remains true to the existing source material and then build from it rather than try and do something completely different (which would make me wonder why they didn't just make an entirely new game instead).  The maniac mansion mania games are an example of something that builds from the source material and then introduces new elements (like Bernard's sister).

The problem I see is that 90% of these remakes never get past the concept stage and yet the groups go out of their way to pimp their project so everyone is excited about nothing.  I really dislike groups like this that have nothing to actually show, so I am pretty leery of this project.  Get a working demo and then start pimping your project, at least then people can see you've put effort into something more than a snappy website (Zak McKracken 2, anyone? ).

[Cyrus]

especially since your fanaticism is aimed at dead projects. What is it with dead projects that fascinates you so much?

Not only dead. However, I make up topics only on little-known projects. If the fangame is well-known, there's no such need: usually there are loads of information around the Web.

[Vince Twelve]

I'm not sure that infamous means what you think it means.  But it's oddly applicable.

Go to the link I provided and ask the creator himself.  As ProgZ said, it's allowed to post these questions here, but as I said, you're far likelier to get information from the source than from a forum full of people that have never heard of this project (as a forum search would suggest).

Just please don't bump this thread in a month asking if anyone has found out anything.

[Cyrus]

Yes, I won't do it. I'm going to contact the author.