Archive - September 2002
| Updated D-Mod: True of Life v1.3 Final |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday September 1st, at 09:05 AM |
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Timo has returned, and has brought with him True of Life v1.3 Final. This new version is said to fix all of the bugs that were in the previous versions. Yay. He also brings word that he is finishing up the full version of Legend of Parnu, and it might be done within a week or so. |
| Monthly Happenings: New DOTM |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday September 1st, at 12:50 PM |
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Vote now in the August 2002 Download of the Month. You might find one entry odd... mimifish's Hard Tile Tutorial which was released on July 1st. Due to a mixup, it was added into the July 2002 DOTM just a couple days before it ended. So, it has been added into this DOTM to give it a fair shot at winning. The Interactive Story section will be taken down today, and I'm not sure if the archives will even be kept up. It started out ok, but eventually descended into anarchic, insulting, and inane 'stories'. |
| A Winner is Seth! |
| Posted by redink1 on Wednesday September 4th, at 05:23 PM |
| Tarzan, RTsoft's entry in GameDev.net's Four Elements III Contest has won first place! Congratulations go to Seth and Akiko for making a winner. They get a Radeon 9700 as a prize. |
| Current Events: Armageddon |
| Posted by WC on Friday September 6th, at 12:44 PM |
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This weeks Current Events is about destruction in the community, and some changes you may or may not like, click the comments to view more.
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| Updated Dev File: WinDinkEdit |
| Posted by WC on Saturday September 7th, at 04:54 PM |
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Thanks to help from redink, WinDinkedit 1.0 Final is out complete with hardness editors (view the readmed to leanr how to use it). Of course, lets not for get the Source for those of you that wana hack it. View the comments to read the changes. P.S. All reviews for WinDinkEdit have been trashed. ( Read More ) |
| New Dev Graphics: Item Icons Pack font color="yellow"Updated/font |
| Posted by redink1 on Saturday September 7th, at 08:32 PM |
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bin has released an Item Icons Pack which includes different item/magic icons for use in your D-Mods. With 827 icons to choose from, you should find almost any icon you need in this pack. Updated 9/9/02: v1.1 has been released, and now all of the icons have the Dink Pallete applied. |
| DOTM Results: Dink's Trunk |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday September 8th, at 08:56 AM |
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Tyrsis' Dink's Trunk has won the August 2002 Download of the Month Award with 52% of the votes. Congratulations! Coming in a trailing second place with 21% of the vote was the Counter Strike CTF Demo. |
| Alternative Hero D-Mod Contest Reminder |
| Posted by redink1 on Wednesday September 11th, at 03:25 PM |
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Just a reminder, in order to be eligible for the contest all of the Alternative Hero D-Mods must arrive in my redink1@rpgplanet.com e-mail inbox before 12:01 am September 13th PST. So you have about 35 hours until the deadline. Update by redink1: I hopefully made the deadline a bit clearer, there is still about 8 hours left when I'm writing this (3:45 PM PST). |
| Alternative Hero D-Mod Contest Entries Available |
| Posted by redink1 on Friday September 13th, at 07:20 AM |
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A total of 3 entries were entered into the Alternative Hero D-Mod contest, and are listed below in the order they arrived in my inbox: James Perley's entry is Quest for the Golden Nut, and the dmod.diz says, "This addon tells the story of an adventure taken by a missing duck." Dan Walma's entry is Cycles of Evil, and it is described in the dmod.diz as, "A small town is affected by evil across generations." Paul Pliska's entry is Lyna's Story, which he describes as, "One year after Dink adventure, crisis strikes while he is away. No one but Lyna can save the day." As previously stated, voting will begin next Friday. So you have a week to play these, so have fun! |
| New D-mod: Dink Racer |
| Posted by WC on Sunday September 15th, at 10:12 PM |
| Joeri has just released his first d-mod called Dink Racer. I haven't played it yet but it sounds pretty good, here is a brief discription. "Grab the gold and avoid the stones, that's what it's all about in this arcade-like game!" |
| Complaint Chaos 1: Search Engine, It is Not |
| Posted by redink1 on Wednesday September 18th, at 09:14 PM |
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Welcome to a new feature on The Dink Network. This will not be one-staff-member-exclusive article, and will be put up whenever, by any staff member who decides to do it. Basically, people complain in the box. And complain some more because the complaints weren't addressed. Well, sometimes there is nothing to address, or it is fixed and people don't realize it, and so on. First thing first: The Complaint Box Is Not A Search Engine. It seems some people think it is... with complaints like 'Parizaya', and 'cloudcastle'... Anyway, view the comments to read the rest. ( Read More ) |
| Updated Dev File: Enemy Shoot Deluxe |
| Posted by Dukie on Thursday September 19th, at 05:00 AM |
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Good old Paul Pliska has updated his Enemy Shoot Deluxe file to 2.1 (2.0 according to the readme.txt), based on the poison spitting bonca's from Lyna's Story. View the comments to see what's new/updated. ( Read More ) |
| Mike Snyder's Prowler-Pro Forum Archive |
| Posted by Dukie on Friday September 20th, at 01:11 AM |
| For those who remember, former Mod-God Mike Snyder used to run a forum at his site. But almost noone found their way to it lately, so he decided to closed it down. Too bad, but he did send an archive of all the posts since 2000 to Beuc, who kindly handed it over to the Dink Network. Which means you can now access the forum here. It's full of answered d-mod problems and other stuff. Aren't we nice? |
| Alternative Hero D-Mod Voting Up |
| Posted by redink1 on Friday September 20th, at 06:33 AM |
| You can now vote for your favorite Alternative Hero D-Mod. Voting will end sometime next Friday. |
| Site News: Links Updated |
| Posted by redink1 on Tuesday September 24th, at 10:27 PM |
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A year ago the Links page was up-to-date. Unfortunatly over the past year, the Links page just... didn't change. But over the past month, people've been reminding me that I should add this site, change this URL, and whatnot. And so the Links page is now completely up-to-date once again. I removed most of the dead sites (those that hadn't updated in a year or so). If you still want to see them for old time's sake, Jaina's Dink Links has links to most of the known dead Dink sites. |
| Site News: Standardized Review Scoring System |
| Posted by redink1 on Thursday September 26th, at 09:39 PM |
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The Dink Network now has color bars and a standardized review scoring system setup. What in the blazes heck does this mumbo-jumbo mean? Read the comments.
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| Alternative Hero D-Mod Contest Results: Lyna's Story Triumphs |
| Posted by redink1 on Friday September 27th, at 09:55 AM |
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Congratulations to Paul Pliska, as his Lyna's Story entry for the Alternative Hero D-Mod Contest won with 58% of votes going towards it. He won't have a little Trophy thing next to his icon yet (I still have to add that code into Miasma) though hopefully I'll get it done when I return from going home for the weekend. |
| Complaint Chaos 2: We don't wana hear it |
| Posted by WC on Saturday September 28th, at 02:23 PM |
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We have several complaint is the past week or so, most were still people trying to search the site (silly fools), but anyway, click on the comments to read.
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| New Dev Music File: Christiaan's Midi Pack |
| Posted by WC on Sunday September 29th, at 01:45 PM |
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Good ol' Christiaan has released a new midi pack created from scratch called Christiaan's Midi Pack. (Would you have ever guessed that name?). *And now a word from you local staff members* After talking with Tal, I decided to go communist and update the midi pack rules and hope redink doesn't fire me/kill me/molest me. For now on we will only be accepting midi pack with at least 20 midis and a total of 30 min of music. Not to say we don't have some good midi packs here, but I think it would be better if we have fewer bigger packs instead of 45328154 packs with 1 midi in it each. There will be exemptions (like is someone submits a theme based pack (like a midi pack based on a movies sound track), and a really good midi pack that doesn't quite meet the minimum size). let me know what you think. |
| Updated File: Item Icons Pack v1.2 |
| Posted by redink1 on Monday September 30th, at 09:23 PM |
| bin has updated his Items Icons Pack to v1.2, which really has the graphics with the Dink Pallete applied to them. The Items Icons Pack is a collection of about 800 icon graphics. |
| New File: Dink Smallwood on TV |
| Posted by redink1 on Monday September 30th, at 10:47 PM |
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TechTV's nightly show, The Screen Savers, featured Dink Smallwood as the Download of the Day. Even though they got a few things wrong (crystals!?), they did mention us (indirectly, "it does enjoy a little bit of cult internet success"), and they punched pigs live on the air. Its too bad they didn't punch the ducks... Anyway, you can also grab a video capture of the segment here. |
