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    The Mojole Results Thread

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    👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #378 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 6/6
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    https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

     

    💚💚💚💚💛💛 the empty dictionary 🤯

    2 hours ago, Huz said:

    Oho!

     

     

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    Not enough Remi! 😈


    👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #378 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 2/6
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    https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

     

    Did you actually guess this, or were you just frustrated enough to swear the Curse of Monkey Island? 😁

    The Mojole Results Thread

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    whoah! SIX letters! This is the LeChuck's Revenge-like upgrade to Mojole. Bigger, better, more!

     

    I bet it is going to end on some grand fulfilling finale that everybody is happy about.

    👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #377 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6
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    https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

     

    oh it's the same word again 😅

    @Huz  time for new starters 😬

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    LEGO and Monkey Island - A Life Story

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    Posted

    28 minutes ago, neoncolor8 said:

    What could work for building a MI1 Lechuck, is making it gigantic.

     

    I suspected one of the issues with the outline is more, that it outlines the silhouette, which doesn't usually work well with real life 3d models.

    30 minutes ago, neoncolor8 said:

    Haha, but I think that's not his hip bone, but part of his coat design.

     

    Now that YOU mention that, it might just be two large buttons and a wrinkle. Let's exhange headcanons 🤝

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    LEGO and Monkey Island - A Life Story

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    2 hours ago, Romão said:

    The problem with the Lechuck sprite in The Secret of Monkey island is not only the transparent parts (which are much scarcer and available in much less variety of elements), but specially the blue outline that surrounds the character:

     

    Wow seeing him like this, you'd need some real voodoo to make it happen. Maybe kill some bricks to get ghost bricks? LEGO bricks are immortal though so it probably wouldn't work 😉

     

    Also now that you posted this sprite I noticed for the first time, that LeChuck must be wearing some kind of x-ray coat, or a very strange cut of pants. You can see where his hip bone connects to the... chest bone... 🎶 from behind 👀

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    Ron announced Return to MI one year ago

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    55 minutes ago, Vainamoinen said:

    In that vein, we ... could probably make the thread title a little lighter on the clickbait.

     

    Sorry, I couldn't resist, it being April 1st and the game having this connection to this special day and the tradition 😁

     

    Now that everyone had a good laugh (maybe someone at least :p) I'll change it 😁

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    Ron announced Return to MI one year ago

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    Posted · Edited by Gins
    defoolsified

    I wonder if he will make a tradition of it? Although, with the way it ended for him last time, I think he won't be interested in such a thing ever again 😢

     

    Let's take a step back and reminisce about this day and time after, a year ago.

     

    For me, my excitement was through the roof. I believe it was just the verbal announcement, but Ron-fans knew there was no joke on his blog.

     

    The violin trailer dropped and it was the beginning of the end. But I hadn't yet realized how far some fans would take it. I was excited and happy. I told my pregnant girlfriend what this game series meant to me, and what it means to me that a new one comes out, and that it's made by no other than Ron himself, tying up loose ends that have been loose for 30 years.

     

    This was my cross of Coronado. A lot of who I am today comes from these games putting their "hat" on my head when I was a kid. I have grown up with this series and now there was closure in sight. And what a closure it was.

     

    Thanks Ron and team, for having done this.

     

    How did you feel a year ago?

    How about now?

    Let's return to Return together!

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    Favorite references to previous games or other games?

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    9 minutes ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:

    How long until every forum on the internet is actually just ChatGPT? Not saying ogbonnayauche is ChatGPT... but WOW, their post reads exactly like a ChatGPT answer.

     

    Here's ChatGPT writing a reply to the OP:

     

     

     

    Interestingly, ChatGPT agrees with me!

     

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    I reported the message earlier today because it looks like that. It basically repeats verbatim parts of the original post and splices "new" things in, very much like ChatGPT does, without understanding context, such as that "this forum" refers to the spoiler forum that no longer exists.

     

    If the post gets deleted as spam, please delete this one along with it.

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    LEGO and Monkey Island - A Life Story

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    Posted · Edited by Gins

    3 hours ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:

     

    Except ScummVM fixes this...

     

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    That's by default? If so (and even if not), awesome! ❤️

    1 hour ago, Romão said:

    Well, regardless of how imperfect this reproductions might be, I've followed @Gins suggestion, and made a revolving .gif of SOMI Guybrush statue, using the digital design files:

     

    It looks every bit as impressive as I imagined, and then some 🤩

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    LEGO and Monkey Island - A Life Story

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    5 hours ago, Romão said:

    I've reading a bit more on this subject. and I found this article really informative:

     

    https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/no-ms-dos-games-weren-t-widescreen-tips-on-correcting-aspect-ratio

     

    And this particular comparison image encapsulates the issues being discussed:

     

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    The article mentions this:

     

    So, how do we fix this? Well, we cannot stretch pixels like the analog monitors did. And since a pixel is the smallest graphical unit we have, you cannot "borrow" 1/5 of a nearby pixel either. What we can do is multiply an image's width by 5 and height by 6, so that every pixel becomes a 5x6 "mega-pixel", and thus proportionally 20% taller:

     

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    And this 5 x 6 ration is the exact same ration between width and heigh of 1 x 1 LEGO brick. So @Laserschwertis indeed right.  If I rebuild these statues using a simple, studs up, technique,  I would actually get much closer to the pixel artists intentions than I did before.

     

    This is fascinating and a really enticing prospect going forward, but in a way, kinda puts me off from sharing the other sculptures I've finished, since they now very much feel like imperfect visual representations of these characters

    You can probably assume that the vast majority of Monkey Island players experienced the games on SCUMM VM with square pixels, so it should be fine :)

     

    You could exhibit them through a curved lens, and make the experience even more authentic ;)

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