UltraHau

Mctoran Jala/Jaller.

Yes, but Lego is apparently making another movie.

I'm not so sure this is exciting as many people make it out to be, for several reasons: [*]Legally, neither Deep Brick nor RedQuark can put up even a demo of LoMN, because they do not hold the copyright to it[*]Reverse-engineering the level format is helpful, but only if we already have the media and game engine to begin with (neither of which we have)[*]Lego holds the copyright to the game, so only Lego could legally put the game itself up for download. If Lego gives Deep Brick or RedQuark permission, they could upload it themselves, but I find that unlikely[*]This game was designed for Windows 9k/2000. Since Windows 7, IIRC, broke ABI compatibility with earlier versions of Windows, the only way anyone could play the game even if they had it would be if they had a copy of Windows 95/2000 on hand, or used WINE (which is Linux-only)Frankly, I think we should just leave both Deep Brick and RedQuark alone, use this community's talent to create a new Bionicle fangame that is better in every aspect, and free of all these legal issues. I and my 6 1/2 years of programming experience are willing to pitch in.

Forums are very useful for getting proper feedback, though. True, but SourceForge allows reviews, and since it has no forums, and it's non-commercial, if you host your project on SourceForge, you should be able to safely link to it from here. Also, I'd like to see more Bionicle fangames that work natively on OSes besides Windows, too, like Linux and Mac OSX. Not all of us use Windows (me and and alpha123 [iIRC] come to mind).

I was mostly relieved. Waiting around 6 months just for a forum upgrade had made me kind of upset at BZP.

2/5. I think I've seen you before.

I meant on a site that doesn't have forums (or anything else that would violate the BZP forum rules) - SourceForge is a good example. I won't link to it because I'm still unsure where the BZP policy stands on linking to external sites, but SourceForge has no forums (or any other way to interact with other users), and it's non-commercial, so it should be okay.

It's okay, they should already have it - I found it was legal for them to distribute the BH music a while ago (it's under the GPL 3+ license), so they should already have the music up somewhere.

Let's see: [*]Did a ton of programming on my free and open-source ROBLOX/Blockland replacement, gearing up for its November 6th release[*]Played a mountain of free and open-source games - Warsow, Teeworlds, SuperTuxKart, Secret Maryo Chronicles, Galaga: Hyperspace, SuperTux 2, and a bunch of others[*]Participated in both BEST and FIRST (the former is still running as of today), and became a FLL mentor[*]Honed my vector drawing skills a bit[*]Learned even more than I thought I would about Linux[*]Started a blog[*]Found a more secure P2P alternative to "that social networking site" (which I never used in the first place)Yeah, I've been busy. Actually, I haven't missed BZP all that much, since I found more worthwhile (gasp) stuff to replace it, that also benefited me more in the long run, too.

The forum downtime (or, as I'll start calling it, The Null) was/should be a powerful lesson to Bionicle fangame developers that reliance on forums for PR and coordinating development (and in some cases, an informal home page) is a bad idea, and is prone to failure. Hopefully, we'll start to see more Bionicle game projects on sites like SourceForge or TuxFamily, who frankly have a more reliable track record than BZP. For example, does anyone here remember Toa's Quest 3? It was a fun fan-made Bionicle platformer, but since its download link was only posted on BZP, it was lost forever in the Dataclysm. Fortunately, I have a copy of it hanging around on a USB stick, but many pre-Dataclysm games weren't so lucky.

The downtime really affected my interest in Bionicle. This is one of 2 (the other being BMP) sites that I frequent for Bionicle-related stuff.

Simple. We call it... The Null. Null posts, null topics. etc, etc...

Last game I played was Street Fighter Alpha 3. Broken (in terms of balanced gameplay), but fun nonetheless

After the half-year wait, it's good to have the forums back