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Well the biggest problem is episode 4, because of the rhymes. This can only be translated by someone who is very good at english and german AND who is able to think of good new rhymes. It's not easy to find someone who can do this, but we hope to find someone. All the other episodes can be translated without problems imho.

By the way, you don't need to play the games in chronological order. You could play episode 15 without knowing the other episodes. It's the same with almost every other MMM game.

It's actually allowed in films and books, but it's not allowed in video games in germany afaik (don't ask why). For example, they changed all the nazi symbols in the german version of Indy 3 (the adventure).

Actually people are working on translations, but it takes some time. At least episode 1, 2, 8 and 15 are already translated. Episode 9 should follow soon. Just be patient 

Thank you 
I hope the translation was okay?

I'm already working on a sequel (together with another scripter), but I don't know whe it will be finished.

There have been many dream episodes in Maniac Mansion Mania lately. Everything that didn't seem to work with the MM Universe ended up in a dream-episode.

That worked very well in episode 4 (which actually had nazi-references, but in a very different way), but it seems to me that people really got tired of dream episodes finally.

And you really should be careful with "humoristic" nazi games, because this can be misunderstood easily, and often this isn't funny at all.

Like Scummbuddy I think that nazis don't really fit into the MM universe. This is something for Indy, not for Bernard 
The MM universe gives you many opportunities for great storys, you have so many characters to work with, it really isn't necessary to throw in something like nazis. It's the same with a "Star Trek" episode that some people on the german forums are working on, I  don't think that will work very well. But of course it's just my opinion.

He must have played the german version because it's not yet tranlated (but the author says that it will be translated soon)

What episode did you download? Only 4 episodes have been translated to english at  the moment.
And of course you will have to run the "winsetup.exe" and select the english translation.

Actually it is a german series, and the episodes 1, 2, 8 and 15 have been translated to english. You can find them here:
http://maniacmansion.microspace.ch/spiele.htm

I'm sorry, but these are the only episodes that are available in english at the moment. But I hope that more will be translated soon. I'm trying to convince the other authors 

@everyone who played this game:  Could you please tell me if the translation is okay? Please PM me if you find any important mistakes, because I want to have a good translation of my game.

Sorry if this is offtopic...

There is one more object you can pick up in the lab. That should help you.

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You have to make a fire somewhere. When you sharpened the rock, you should have seen something that will help you...

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You have to sharpen the stone somehow. There is a very big hotspot that you probably didn't think of.

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Thank you for the report.
This bug happened randomly when I tested it, but I have no idea what it is. But it is not very often, actually you are the first one who reported it to me.

This seems to be a general problem in the maniac mansion mania startup package, as this happended in other episodes too (especially when klicking very fast). Just try it again please, and tell me if it works this time.

Oh, I just noticed there was a saved game in the archive, I corrected that. 

As said in another thread, we have a lack of translaters. Most of the authors can't translate their episodes, or they don't want to do the work. But I hope this will change.

[Maniac Mansion Mania]

Maniac Mansion Mania

Episode 15: Place Machine




Finally the english translation of episode 15 is available. I hope there are not too many mistakes, and that you enjoy my episode as much as the people on the german forums did.

Like all MMM episodes it's a short game, but it is the first game in the series to have different solutions to some of the puzzles and a completely original soundtrack.

Download HERE. You can also visit the  games section and vote for it if you like.

[Maniac Mansion Mania]

Maniac Mansion Mania

Episode 15: Place Machine

Michael just wanted to test his new camera at night. But on his excursion he discovers a strange cave. Curious and hoping for a big story to write about, he tries to find out what is going on...





The game is actually finished, but in german. I'm translating it to english at the moment. It is a short game, like most of the MMM episodes.  I hope I get it done in about 2 weeks, and I also hope that more translations will follow, as there are many funny games in the series.

As said, it is not very long, but it has different solutions to some of the puzzles, some eastereggs and a completely original soundtrack. To my surprise it was very well received at the german Adventuretreff-Forum, so I decided that a translation would be worthwhile.


If anyone wants to play the german version, get it here

I can only play two of the games. EVERY other game crashes right at the beginning or after the intro - fatal exception. This is strange, I never had these problems before.

The response to that show is unbelievable. The german AGS-Forum at "Adventuretreff" now is full of "noobs" who ask basic questions without even reading the help-file 

I downloaded 5 days ages ago, but when I come to get 7 days off of the underdogs, it keeps telling me there's an error. Does anyone else find this, or is my internet-security being too secure?

I know you can buy it off of Ben direct, and I may be able to grudgingly concede that the first game is one of the best made AGS games I've ever played (even though there's no explanation of how any of the bodies got under the floors) but I'm not coughing 5 dollers into Yahtzee's paw for the privalage of the "special edition"... Outtakes and an "Author's" commentar? why isn't there a "being sick" emoticon here?

If you don't need the special edition, you can just download the normal version from yahtzee's site - or did I understand you wrong?

EDIT: Sorry, Yahtzee's site just links to the underdogs - my fault

Yes, it is a german series, but we try to translate as many episodes as possible. My episode definately will be translated when it's finished, and I think that most episodes will be translated some time.

However, episode 4 seems to be impossible to translate because of all the rhymes. It's a pity, because this episode is brilliant imo.

Thank you, you've got some good ideas.
I won't make another edit, as this thing was just a practise background. Instead I'll try to draw some similar bg's that look more natural.

Goél: Your idea is good, but i think the leaves are too big compared to the trees, and too bright.