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It's sounds like a funny game. The names were so funny it made me bubble in laughter.  

Here are some suggestions for the name:

Larry Stinkfoot, Cedric Tumbledown, Robin Bananasplit, Walter McAraoni, Pete Feet, Roger Sleezbutt, George Lighthead, Harris Dropurpants (Get it, drop your pants), Sam Sweathand, Richard Screwball, Herman Toothbloom (yes, I make fun of Herman Toothrot), Don Slowsnail, Benny Wallcrasher and Jimmy Slackdeedayoff (Slack the day off, "snigger").

Well, what do you think?

Scorpiorus: Yes, I could play AGS games before the switching of the hardware. The reason for switching hardware was that my PC froze if you didn't do a thing.

Actually I have already big projects to do so I will wait with the Maniac Mansion remake for the future. Besides I need to learn certain things before take on this BIG project. Like I said last time, it's not down forever it's just laid down for a uncertain amount of time.

Remake of MI3?!?  :o What are you, nuts? I think that MI3 is the best in the whole series so it's just too good to make a remake. The only thing that would convince me of making a remake is doing the game in 3D in cel-shading which is impossible to do with AGS, so no remaking of MI3 thanks. What will it be next time? A remake of MI4?

There wasn't any remake of DOTT and I'm not going to it do a remake of that either.

I have tried to disable both sounds and music but it still won't work. A strange thing have happened. When I clicked away from the window then holding down the mouse-button to move it, the games do play up while you do it but if you let go it just freezes. I have also tesed to play other games like Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island but they won't run up either. I have found out something curious when I tried to install DirectX from Escape From Monkey Island and a message appeared that said "A problem occued during the installation of DirectX: DirectX does not support the Windows version on the system".

I suspect that DirectX might be the cause but I don't know. Do you guys think that you can anything about it?

Thanks Blackthorne for the great speech but I have decided to drop the project. However, only temporary. I have just done one game and it was only a pretty short game, so I'm going to finish those big games I have planned for a long time and maybe come back to MM remake when I've got enough experience to make such a huge complex game. The project is not down, it's put on ice.

You can lock this topic if you want to.

I'm not doing this remake just to give the game new graphic and new music but there are some other reasons to it.

1: It is the first SCUMM GUI game but because you couldn't use the mouse back in the late 80's/ early 90's which is pretty cumbersome especially to the ones who have only played the later SCUMM engine based games like Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle. Trust me, it took awhile for me before I got used to it but it felt somehow sluggish compaired with the SCUMM GUI you could use with the mouse. Also it's quite boring when you can't check a thing because there was no "Look at" commando or that you could talk to anyone (It makes more sense to talk to Green Tentacle or something because it can maybe give you clues to what to do better than just those comments.). I have tried "What is" commando but nothing happened, so that is better to change the old SCUMM GUI into the newer SCUMM GUI.

2: You know about calling Nurse Edna puzzle? I have tried that one but every time I go inside the room with other kid she just catch you and that is a low point. I'm going to change that so that Edna will always be distracted when you sneak into her room while she's talking in the telephone. It's better that way.

3: I bet you haven't noticed those plot-holes in Maniac Mansion. At the beginning of the game you only see the text "20 years ago today", meteor crashes at the front yard and then the title comes before you see Dave and the other two kids at the front yard of the Mansion. I would make more sense if you made a longer cut-scene so you really see that Dr. Fred and the Edisons discovers the Purple Meteor, that he somehow controll Fred's mind into taking the meteor into the lab, that strange things happens in the mansion and finally 20 years later Dr. Fred kidnaps Sandy and take her to the lab. It's much better way to tell the story because it makes more sense. I played DoTT before MM and when I played MM some things confused me like that Dr. Fred is evil when he was just grumpy in DoTT. It would be better to know that the meteor is controlling Dr. Fred in the beginning rather than knowing at the end. And also there is something that is not right in MM compaired with DoTT. In DoTT Bernard couldn't lift the bowling ball in the Tentacles' room but you can in MM use the Hunk-O-Matick to get stronger with any character. I mean just because that you don't workout in 5 years it doesn't mean you really get THAT weak. Also it's more exciting that only some characters can use the Hunk-O-Matic, maybe Dave and Jeff, the surfer dude. It makes them both valueble because Dave is just the leader, he have no special talent and Jeff can only fix a telephone when it's better to have Bernard who can fix a telephone and use a radio-tube.

4: There are some stuff in MM that needs to be changing because it's annoying. For example just hang around and wait for the post box for Green Tentacle's contract to come is so boring. It's better that it comes instantly like the delivery of the diamond in DoTT or there will be something like "A few hours later" and then the contract is in postbox. Another stupid thing in MM was that if you opened the envelope you couldn't use it for sending corrected script/demo tape. Annoying, isn't it? That would be one thing I won't do in my remake, instead the player won't open it by rip it up. And if can't the package before Weird Ed gets it you never get the chance to get the stamps. I mean how annoying is that? I think the player deserves a second chance, like you can get into Ed's room when he's not there and then get the stamps from the opened package.

Well, that's the reasons so far. Don't you you guys agree that the these reasons do make do answer the question "Why remake Maniac Mansion when it's perfect?"? In my opinion some things that seem perfect aren't 100 % perfect. See what I mean?

Big Brother, I like the in-joke for that game. I hope you bring even more in-jokes from Lucas Arts games. About the title I think that The Knight's Move sounds better than The Knight's Turn because turn can be mistaken for as turn as standing in a line which would be silly, if you know what I mean. Move does sound good because the word "move" is a term of a strategy (not only in chess but also for planing a battle) so in my opinion Knight's Move are the best.

Off-topic: Big Bro, have you played my game Wizardhood? There's a funny in-joke from the original Apprentice.

Yes but I just had enough of complains. And will you please stop spelling my name wrong? I'm not from America, I'm from Sweden. Now please, stick to the topic.

Ok, enough of the junk-talk!

AGA: The style you have seen so far is not DoTT, yes I agree with that. I'm not going to do all the graphics alone, I may try to make the backgrounds into DoTT style but I'm going to find someone who are can transform the MM backgrounds into DoTT style. Myself I'm going to do a lot of the characters, not only ripping using SCUMM revisted but also draw characters into DoTT style. I have done two transformation, the Purple Meteor and the Meteor Police.

Karius: Many others before me have used copyright characters so it's nothing new and very, very, very few have ever been caught (m0ds haven't been caught for using Indiana Jones or Roy Lazorowich for using Lucas Arts characters in Night of the Hermit.) but of course I will make a slightly younger Bernard because his about 15 in MM (I think) and DoTT was 5 years after MM. I will rip the Tentacles from DoTT (I know Purple doesn't have arms there so don't worry) and Doctor Fred because he does look the same (Somehow it's silly to change skin into blue becase DoTT never had blue skin and Dr. Fred never got Pink skin when he was saved from the Meteor) but I will redraw Weird Ed and Edna because in DoTT they always sat in chairs while they walked in MM.

About the multi-player stuff: Sorry, it's way to advanced and complex stuff for me to do. It will also follow the original with a few exceptions but the puzzles will be the same.

Ok, here are the last words for now: Stop complaining about the not having remakes!!!   You're just afraid that I'm gonna screw it up and it will be bad but it won't!! I mean look at King's Quest VGA I and II, they are have so high marks. Did anyone complained about them? No! And another thing: I already have some own original things and there are WAY too few remakes so... if you're negative to this, stay away from this topic, ok?  

EDIT: I risk to be banned from the community? There are no such rule around here! You're just made up to scare my pants of me but I see through your little lie there. Where does it say that anyone who those a remake of a classic game will be baned from the AGS community? That is just ridicculous!

Personally I think it should be something like Apprentice 2: The War of the Knights or maybe Apprentice 2: The plan of Ironcrow, or something like that.

I have reinstalled Direct X but the problem is still occur. Now what am I gonna do?  

I have played both Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle and suddenly I have been thinking of making a remake of Maniac Mansion by using Day of the Tentacle sprites and draw sprites of the other MM characters in DOTT version. I thought maybe it's a good idea but I have been also thinking some other things. Maybe I should slightly change things so they're not 100 % exaclty like the orginal MM, like getting rid of the possiblity of exploding the hamster in the microwave (it's so disgusting!) and change the sequirty door puzzle and maybe some other stuff but I'm going to keep many things like you can select the kids and different possibilites like the differnt way to get into the lab and so on.

Now I like to hear your opinions about this. What do you think? Do think that it the remake must be 100 % like the original MM or do you think it's okay to change stuff? Don't be afraid to tell me your opinions.

I don't know if this the right forum but anyway...

I have a problem. When I try to either run a game made by AGS or testing my own gmaes made with AGS the games just won't run, they just leave a blackscreen if I play it on a full-screen. If I play them as a window, the screen doesn't appear either but if I switch from between the window and the programs the first screen may appear but it freezes and won't run any further. I don't know what's wrong but I doubt it has to do with the graphic card or the resolutions of the games (I have tested it on different games) and there isn't any viruses on my PC as I know it. Does someone know what could possibly be wrong? If you do, please, tell me because I can't let this go on forever, never being able to make or play any AGS games. I have currently Windows XP on my PC after switching harddrives.

Thanks in advice.

I don't like deaths in adventure games anyway, anyhow, anywhere. That's why I like Lucas Arts games because you can't die in those games (with a few exceptions like Maniac Mansion and Zak McKraken).

When I played the Adventures of Fatman demo and I pressed the self-destruct button in the Fatmobile because I thought it was somekind of joke but no! You just sat there while the FatCom (or what it's name was again) counted down and KABOOM!!! That's just plain stupid way to plant a death on.

Deaths in my games haven't been, is not nor will ever be a part of my games style. No way, no how! I just hate those death things. It's just a stupid excuse for annoy players. Thank goodness that death-scenes are only at certain places in Pleurghburg because otherwise it would be very annoying.

Blood!? Ewwww!   I think I pass next month. Oh well, I can't work on AGS games anyway because of my PC is a bit nuts.

Me too. I want to play the game, so please hurry up! I simply can't wait!

Myself it's Grim Fandango, then Curse of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.

You can also read books about history, myths and cultures of many different countries like Japan, Greece, Sweden, USA, anywhere. Maybe that will inspire you for a game idea.

No, the 28:th.

What about Tork from Calsoon and Calsoon 2 and Herman Toothrot from Night of the Hermit?