AlexisMagnus wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 5:50 am
Sure, your maps usually deserve a careful look - the eye caught my attention and that was how I found the spot in first place. Not to mention hidden drawings of animals and other stuff in some caves, which pass unnoticed unless we're looking for them
It's great to see you around, I'm a fan of your work (including the excellent maped guide) and certainly not the only one. Even in unfinished places such as VoT, I had a great time trying to make sense of all the stuff already in there - not knowing it was broken made me check everything and try the most crazy ideas
. It's also a pleasure to be finally able to let you know that - I tried writing to the e-mail address you left hidden at the bottom of the Pit, but it seems not to be working anymore.
Thank you for all the great stuff you built, and hope to see you around more often.
That's really sweet of you, so thanks
But tbh: only 1/3rds promised maps ever went live, which is totally down to me and not Egg. I've an old 4-6 level map set based on the movie Tremors (
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/) that got zapped when... more wine, different laptop (this is a recurring theme). That was last time I got interested, when LUA really got full functionality.
Egg's view of me is probably morelike: she says there's an email, there's not, and she's vanished for another five years... Sigh.
Basically, what happens is: I get interested in MapEd, the Goddesses frown, crazy shit happens for 2-4 years and Egg never gets the files. (The Tremors map was cool - since LUA was now in, modded a load of sandtraps and tried to make them have a fake mobility (teleporting, really) based on where a player was standing. Really cludgy haxx though, couldn't work out how to tell LUA what the char was standing on - which I knew was a thing, since lava etc applies environmental effects. From memory it involved making some tiles have a property, but tbh, I think it wasn't working. Map design was solid, leading up to the
Sand Worm Queen trapper boss - yes, there was a nod to TOME4 in there).
@Egg - interested that you're still working on this, and you're
STILL not listed on places like
https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/ -- this has always baffled me, since EUO is still one of the best ones out there. Caves of Qud does simplistic but interesting things with RNG chaotic generators but EUO still has the best core back-bone out of the three I keep tabs upon (TE4, Qud, EUO).
So, meh: guess Reddit hates you or something, but you really deserve a bit of love from the indy scene which you've never had. 100% core mechanics best freebie indy 2D rpg out there, ranks above QUD, imo - and that's $10 on Steam (mutation stuff is lazy).
#1 The pit email / maped one does exist, but it's trapped in security lock-down :grrr: It was made before popular emails used 2-factor auth, and someone dinked it bad, so there's no way of proving it's me - thanks hotmail, how can I 2-auth when that didn't exist when it was made?! Nor does the account email. Nor does the one linked to this forum account. Lesson kids: using one use stuff is security sensible, but intarweb decay is a thing.
#2 Very tempted to trawl the old photo thread and see if those got ganked. Been a wild few years, might have been pruned as well. Pre-tat Cat would be wild to see (chaotic - like I have those pictures anymore....!)
#3 Holy Cow - it's 2019 and the secret cow valley is live on twitter:
https://twitter.com/magic_bane/status/1 ... 5773590529
LAUGHING OUT LOUD LIKE A MORON! So touched.
kleos aphthiton indeed.
#4 @Egg. I'll have to make a new email to attempt to get acc back, or please just dump data on this forum email PM - hey, I might have to buy my house again so you can buy a few tinnies for Xmas. Given Aussie house prices, guess that's a soild $250, right?
#5 Egg hasn't done his YouTube for like 2 years, but.... Your. Voice. Is. So. Deep. Compared to my mental image of you via photos. oO. Wow... 10+ years, the shit you learn.
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Edit: Eggs' and other network links in his twitter drew me to this:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... me-podcast which was a very cute informative podcast. So... thanks x2. Not saying that's me, but that's totally me.
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Edit: what brought me here (again): just as a head's up, there's a RU based 'rpg maker' who has totes ripped the entire EUO tile base and is hawking his amazing abilities on Reddit and I think a kickstarter. Usual story - has ripped the entire thing, made shitty edits to hide it, but it's not his work. Ryu was licensed, this perp is 100% running with "his original artwork". Can't find it (stupid, was doing other things when I noticed it), but I'll hit Egg with a head's up if I see it in the wild again and trace it and the kickstarter gets >$5000 etc. i.e. a proper search with evidence + dump @ Egg so he can / cannot do a legal desist or just hit them for a license fee (which they won't pay - kickstarter was in the $10-50k range, they never do licenses).