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Do you have any suggestions for future 'The Lost' articles? Here's my list so far. I'd like to mostly feature lost D-Mods with interesting screenshots, as it is much more rewarding to *see* something than to read about it.

Here's my list so far, mostly featuring my own lost D-Mods.

With Interesting Screenshots (or demos)
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The Ancients (me)
Pac-Dink (me)
Legend's Tale (Kyle)
Cycles of Evil 2: Land of Despair (me)
You Don't Know Dink (me)
Hidthspace Revolution (me) (NOTE: I've renamed the version I'll release in a few months)
Run Dink Run (me)
Dink Kombat (me)
The Box (Wesley) (Screenshots exist somewhere... but not sure where)

Just Text (Probably)
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RTSoft (me)
Zolan War (Mike Snyder)

Mabey a quick list of what is finished and if it is available for someone else to pick it up and finish it.
Some of those could become a 'community' Dmod.

Hmmm, I'm hoping to release a fair few of the LT graphics I've done over the years now that it is officially stopped.

These include

dragon (blue version)
winged lady with harp
phoenix
gryphon like thing
mutant panther
evil plant
demon (my best boss to date, has 2 weapon attacks and a magic attack)

other stuff like different houses, debris, stone walls, force field walls...

I might have some old avi movies I made of various stuff as works in progress for approval. Might post those on WC's dinkworld site...

Let's just wait till Sabre replies and you can have this article featured till 2007

Anyway, the screenshots for The Box used to be here (it's still in the Links section too).. but that no longer exists.. perhaps Wesley himself has them, in case you can contact him through e-mail.

Hey SimonK are any of those new graphics of naked women?

,
The Vault Dweller

Oh, very few of Sabre's D-Mods progressed far enough to be interesting. That said, I'm still pressuring him to do something with Valhalla...

That The Box website was updated as recently as 2003, wasn't it? (may have been 2002 - I forget) I was quite impressed by that at the time. A shame that page has vanished given that cube24.tripod.com is still there...

Wesley has been a hard man to track down - still not managed to do it. I wanted to interview him.

Funny how some people can completely disappear from the internet... me, I type in my name in Google and see more hits than I thought possible - including posts here and elsewhere.

Wesley McElwee is not a common name, he got married in 2002, lives in the USA - but that's about as far as I got, except for a couple of phone numbers of possibles, but I haven't gone the distance of international phone calls.

simon, your job is to interview poeple, not STALK them. thats tal's job.

Whoa SimonK! Your dedication is awesome...good to have someone like you on the DN. I would also bet if you found that guy he would probably feel so bad he would make himself finish it or donate it to the DN so someone else can do it.

Just remind me nevr to get on SimonK's bad side...I dont want to get stalked by some shady scorpion with Dink's head!

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Were you to google my real name, you'd get... 117,000 hits. It's like every freaking cohen decided to give his/her kid the same first name. Sheesh.

Yes the evil plant, has huge pollen bits and really long stems

HA HA HA that's gotta make the quotes

Hey, Simon, you know you want to release all those graphics. Now. Please. It'll give me an excuse to start a new d-mod (which I finally can, as Scarab apporoaches release). And they sound very interesting indeed!

I've got a few (hundred) "lost" projects. Valhalla was probably the most advanced, and I've got a trailor for it as well. Though Arik sometimes says I should, I severely doubt I'll work on that d-mod again, though I may take some of the ideas into the Epic I'm working on.

SpookHouse? That was canned, and could have been pretty cool. Though I never got very far into making it...

And I'm sure I've got a few other old d-mods lurking around.

It'll give me an excuse to start a new d-mod

The new engine and the new graphics will trigger me to make something D-Mod like - I wouldn't know if it's worth the effort now to start making a big D-Mod with the old engine And with the new graphics, it gives a lot more ways to decorate and create scenery

I'm not aware of what a "poeple" is, so I can't say I'm deliberately stalking one.

I'm still quite ambivalent towards the new engine. Is it really going to improve things that much?

It will be nice (of course), but I'd prefer a heap load of new graphics to a new engine anyday. But as we're going to get both, I guess I shouldn't complain too much. Yay!

I guess you're probably right about making a big d-mod. I should probably just make another mediocre romp. A Knights Tale 4Ever, anyone?

Tal, a poeple is made up of two words, po and eple. Now we just need to figure out what those two words mean.

Spanky says:

Po(symbol): Polonium.
Eple: Not found. Try apple.
Apple(noun): a rounded fruit with firm white flesh and a seedy core; also: a tree that bears this fruit.

LadyValoveer says: Mystery solved. You're looking for a polonium apple.

I hope that helped.

I'm still quite ambivalent towards the new engine. Is it really going to improve things that much?

Well, I think a bunch of new graphics will do a lot for a D-Mod.. but the new engine might take away some limitations that the current engine has. If I had some ideas for a Romp, I could start now and later improve some bits.. but I happen to have some ideas for a bigger D-Mod of sorts.. then it might be handier to work with a whole new bunch of things from the start (ie engine/graphics/whatever)