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After months/years of hard work possibly combined with a little laziness and goofiness, SabreTrout and Arik have finally released Cloud Castle 2: Scarab. And after about 30-45 minutes of meddling with the file entry in Miasma by dumping reviews, fixing minor errors with it, and whatnot, I'm finally ready to present it to you! I tested this D-Mod, and I must say that I enjoyed it quite a lot. Hopefully you will, also.

just so people know, imgoingtobed doesnt work and dinkworld gave me cloud castle part 1.

That's becasue the mirrors sync at 23:00.

eh???

(and lol @ October DOTM)

Whoops, I forgot to upload it to imgoingbed. Should work now.

As for why Dink World gave you cloud castle 1... I think there might be some sort of option enabled that automatically tries to correct for files that don't exist, and cc1.dmod was the nearest match.

Oh, and it did win the October 2003 DOTM, for the beta.

I don't like the way that the d-mod page only shows Arik's name for Cloud Castle and Cloud Castle 2.

It used to have both our names...

On a more irritating note, due to my extreme haste in sending this off, I forgot to remove certain key scripts which we were using during testing.
So, unless you want to completely RUIN your Dinking experience, delete all the key scripts from the Story directory.
Hopefully Tal or one of the staff can remove them from the download, but I'm a bit of a rush as I type this.

I'll see you all soon.

I knew that I shouldn't have left this to you

Possibly some laziness/goofyness?

Sabre: No wonder only Arik's name is on it. He did all the work.

Hi I dont know if it the right place to say this but I think I found a bug in the library...

When I was reading the most down-right one the game crached (returned to windows...

On a side note your game seem to be very cool!

*edit*
I cant seem to find the book for the rune-guy
I checked but there nothing...

I had the same problems as Astral, in the library.But I'm loving the game anyways

Me too, so I don't go to the library, so that wizard guy better not have been giving me a sword for the book.

Is there a sword (or some weapon ) in this dmod?

We have to delete keys?

BTW sorry about the DOTM award remark, I thought someone was trying to be funny

nevermind...found everything I need

The library does become an essential area later on, at least twice... I have no idea how the boys screwed up the Runic Disciplines bookshelf though; you can punch it and get the right comment from Dink, but if you try to read it then Dink instead reads from either one of the two surrounding shelves. This is leaving me wtf-ing.

As for the crash bug, apparently someone slipped in an overly long piece of dialogue after my testing.

Was it just me,or was the comedian singing?

HE LEFT THAT IN AS WELL?!?

That's it, I'm closing the bureau.

Actually, the library stuff looks like my fault (although thankfully you don't need either bookcase to complete the game, and you'll still be able to access the TOA eventually). I'll try and fix these problems at the earliest opportunity. Send me a PM if you want a patch - I'll send the updated full version to the DN. Like I said, at the earliest opportunity.

You're not supposed to ADMIT it's your fault,blame the monkeys in your hardrive or something.

Well, I thought I'd blamed Sabre enough for the time being

Thanks very much for so very promptly removing the debug keys. I'll try and get a fixed library uploaded as soon as possible.

By the way - is there a directory called "boss" under the story dir? Because if there isn't, there should be. If Sabretrout deleted it he's in for a serious kicking.

There is boss1 and boss2 but not boss...

*edit* sorry I was thinking that you where talking about scrypt...
Like simeon said there no directory.

I don't see any directories in my CC2/story dir at all

Another bug: at the end of the d-mod, I was supposed to unlock "Boss Mode," but nothing happened.

I heard there's seven different endings,I hope the boss is just one.

Does Dertin appear on the title screen? Click him (unlockable elements were hurriedly implemented - a sure sign of boredom when working on the main game if ever there was one). It won't work without the boss directory though, which will be in the version I'm going to try and create/upload now.

As for different endings... 7 is an exaggeration. There are two kinds of bad ending (if you beat the Scarab Man but not the Temple), one of which is different depending on who you had with you. There are also 3 slightly different permutations on the good ending depending on who you have with you, and these may have more or less dialogue depending on how close you got to the NPC in the game. Broadly speaking, there are 2 endings.

I recommend downloading the new version as soon as I get it up though, as this one is absolutely shocking. Hastily implemented features after testing - BAD. As before, if you want a patch then just send me a message or e-mail.

I don't see Dertin on the title screen, *however* if I mouseover the far left of the title screen where the 4 scarabs are, I hear the "button" sound, see a mouseover text appear and if I click there, I seem to be able to practice the stampede challenge.

Hidden feature or test button which was forgotten ?

That's the stampede minigame, and should appear as a bonca after you fulfil a certain condition... man, I thought I checked for stuff like that.

;(

Hmm.. about the endings...
If by the temple you mean the temple of the dragon cult... I do believe I've beaten that one (released the dragon etc), however I still get the "bad" ending (in the credits it tells me to try and get a better ending next time).

What oh what have I done wrong (now) ?

Edit:
Ok, went back to an earlier save game and found the *other* temple, though I have no clue why it only appears now, been to that spot several times before.

I hope there will be a patch or a new updat release of this D-Mod `couse I was stuck in many places for example when the boncas attacked the city adn you had to hlp the hunters. and after you had killed then you shopuld be able to talk witha guy and suddenly everything just froze up , but I played trough it though. I just skiped the bugs

Wowwee !!
Beat it !
Loved it !

Ok, well after beating the game, Dertin + the bonca appear on the title screen.
(to clarify from my earlier post: before beating the game, neither appeared though the bonca mini-game could still be activited, after beating the game, both appear)

But.. eh .. well.. clicking on Dertin doesn't seem to activate anything... or am I missing something (again) ?

*edit*
Retry after retry: Clicking Dertin's heels will make it work, but only clicking there.