Where should I start designing?

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BANNED
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I joined The Lyceum when Solberg started complaining to me that he was being banished. I asked him where The Lyceum *was*, and here I am today. (Well, more accurately, I visited The Lyceum, played Redemption, played An Apology, and *then* decided to stick around. But that's being pedantic.)

So yeah, mid-late '00. Alcritas was having trouble with his short contest, so TM came to the rescue!
With Unbalanced Accounts.

Oh yeah, and then came the Megasite...

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Babelicious
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Oh, god. Don't remind me of the Megasite. :-p
Also, you arrived at the Lyceum in spring 2001, being that the Solberg thing was in March of that year.

http://p080.ezboard.com/fthelyceumfrm20.showMessage?topicID=1.topic
Hm.

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I've got a pyg in a poke.
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The Megasite? :confused: :confused:

I may be a bit behind on things, but I'm very curious all of the sudden...

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-ben4808
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A horrible horrible group project that aimed to create a comprehensive site where one could find all things Blades. It fell through for any number of horrible reasons.

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Dragyn Bob

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Actually, it sounds like a good idea. If there was a valid site with everything from Blades, it would be a good resource. However, I'm guessing that the people that tried to create it were horrible at it in some way and/or the site was badly designed or couldn't get good webspace or something. I'm still curious...

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-ben4808
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Babelicious
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It fell through for several reasons. Certain people had trouble actually doing anything, satisfactory hosting never was found, and it was basically redundant. It doesn't really kill people to go to a couple different sites to find what they need.

Anyway, the work I did on the Megasite ended up becoming the BoE Graphics Database; that was lost to a server crash and I never felt like rebuilding the database by hand, for understandable reasons.

The Megasite was a solution in search of a problem, and overambitious at that.

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I've got a pyg in a poke.
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Technically, I was around before then. Making Streila Spies, hosting TMU when less than nobody cared, and thinking that BSR wasn't one of the community's worst designers. God, was I a lost case back then.

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Triad Mage
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Was I one of the first people you contacted? You emailed me in August/September 2000 asking me to beta-test Streila Spies.

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I believe so.
Yeah, you convinced me not to release it. I put it out anyway, but you've seemed to stick steadfastly to that philosophy in the interim.

On an unrelated tangent, how's RiB doing?

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The BoE Megasite sounds almost like The BoA Center. Except that the Megasite had the brains to die before starting. ^_^

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The Great Mister

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Eh. The Blades of Avernum Center has hardly had a few months in which to die yet. The novelty factor gives it a rush despite its redundacy. Give it time. ~_^

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Off With Their Heads
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For anyone who's curious...

TEH MEGASITE BEGINS!!!!!111

TEH MEGASITE WEAKENS!!!!!!1111

TEH MEGASITE DIES TEH DEATH!!!!111

[ Wednesday, August 18, 2004 12:24: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Master
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Oh. Oh. Okay.

So for the Megasite today: the BoE webring. :P Thanks, Kel.

[ Wednesday, August 18, 2004 13:40: Message edited by: ben* ]

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-ben4808
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So is there a good graphics archive yet or is this something that is still needed?

I want to contribute, yet I know that my gameplay intrests go in spurts. 1year on ET, 6 mo. for rollercoaster tycoon, 3 mo. at HSX.com, now back for BoE. It's hard for me to stay in one place for extended times but maybe the responsibility for a site would stick me.

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Lifecrafter
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There's Khoth's site, yes.

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The Great Mister

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But it hasn't been updated for two-three years or thereabouts.

I like milu's site for new graphics, but mostly I just pull graphics out of other peoples' scenarios (where permission is given).

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If you want to take the time to build something, go ahead. The community can always use duplicates of something in case something falls into the void of cyberspace.

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quote:
Originally written by There is only love in my house:

But it hasn't been updated for two-three years or thereabouts.
He says he thinks he updated it about half a year ago, but he's not sure. I just sent him an original NPC, some stupid geometric monsters, four slimes, and some paintings though. If anyone wants them, ask me.

[ Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:43: Message edited by: The Almighty Doer of Stuff ]

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My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art
The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community
The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database
Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database
BoE Webring - Self explanatory
Polaris - Free porn here
Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too)
They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance
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Master
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Yup. There needs to be an Alexadria for graphics. :P

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-ben4808
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And, if anyone's interested, I just made my very first graphic. 'Martin the Warrior'; mouse with great blade who is the hero of my very first scenario to be unless I experiment on a smaller one first. It doesn't look too bad if I do say so myself... one down, fifty or so to go...

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Forever Always on Past the End

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Bob's Big Date
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I've been around forever, and not really produced anything of note. I plan to stick around forever, too, even though my solemn oath never to touch BoA will interfere even more with my being useful.

Since antiquity, by the Stareye scale -- I remember the release of BoE for Windows.

[ Friday, August 20, 2004 10:50: Message edited by: Custer Hearts You ]

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You've contributed your incredible personality, Alec. And introduced the 'commentary scenario'. That's quite enough from you. :P

[ Friday, August 20, 2004 13:07: Message edited by: There is only love in my house ]

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Who has noticed that the last two fields to the right of Alec's post count are written backwards? Or is it just me again. :rolleyes:

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-ben4808
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Dragyn Bob wrote:
> And then there's me, who posts 2 times a week and it's all useless crap. ^_^

Hey, you're ahead of me.

[ Friday, August 20, 2004 19:19: Message edited by: Aceron ]
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I feel very much like a scared newbie, which I am, but maybe I'll dare to post.
I remember Aceron's board and posted there and recognise some names from that time, I just left it even before the board itself did (which I found out later). For some reason I gave up BOE for years. Then I came back and there was suddenly a community and lots of people and I was lost and so far the only posts I've had courage to make have been questions about scenarios I'm stuck in. Mostly I'm a happy lurker.

And back then I created one scenario. I played it again some time ago and it was truly awful, especially the language. It's funny to read the few reviews it's had, they weren't very positive but more than it deserves. Most likely it will be the last scenario I create. I found the scenario file on my computer and it was created in December 1997 (does that sound right?) so I guess that I was around then.
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